{"id":845,"date":"2013-06-07T07:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=845"},"modified":"2013-06-07T07:16:16","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T12:16:16","slug":"for-the-ladies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=845","title":{"rendered":"For the Ladies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ladyGeneral2\"I hesitate to post on this topic, both because so many smarter and more august persons have already done so, and because whenever I post about something that could be considered a “woman’s issue” I am bombarded with comment spam selling knockoff handbags (which, not even going to get into that).\u00a0 But there is one aspect of the SFWA Bulletin imbroglio<\/a> I wanted to comment on.\u00a0 I don’t get the bulletin myself, so I don’t have first-hand knowledge, and like I say a lot of clever SFWA members have already commented on the important parts of the controversy.<\/p>\n

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\"mcgyver\"But what the heck is up with Mike Resnick and Barry N. Malzberg writing about “lady editors” and “lady writers”?\u00a0 Set aside the discussion of how hawt they are – I recall thinking that was a bizarre and clunky formulation when MacGyver used it to refer to a “lady general” in the cold open of the classic episode “Target McGyver”<\/a> in nineteen-friggin-eighty-five (by the way, the fact that this episode also features the comically re-dubbed Axminster<\/a> makes it easily the most awesome episode of MacGyver, and possibly any TV show, ever).<\/p>\n

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It just seems to me that it behooves a wordsmith, particularly one engaged in speculative fiction, to be up enough on the current lingo to avoid using phrases that sounded dated about thirty years ago.<\/p>\n

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I hesitate to post on this topic, both because so many smarter and more august persons have already done so, and because whenever I post about something that could be considered a “woman’s issue” I am bombarded with comment spam selling knockoff handbags (which, not even going to get into that).\u00a0 But there is one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things","category-grammar-gripery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}