I read all of the Hunger Games and Divergent books series (and one or two of the Maze Runner one), and never once thought it was science fiction. I put science fiction on kind of a pedestal, something that only men could ever really touch, which is already a backwards way of thinking. Why did they get to have this all to themselves when we have to share everything with them? Even recent science fiction movies, like Interstellar or The Martian were too far away for me to grasp because it wasn't something that was made for me. Like a lot of things it was made for men, by men. I don't think I ever truly understood that there are many different kinds of science fiction, we just only ever really see of the super popular tropes like space travel and the apocalypse. There's also science fiction for everyone, that it doesn't belong to a certain group of people just because their voices are the ones that are the loudest. Reading the interview made me appreciate the women in science fiction more because I finally got to hear their voices. Just like the men they have different opinions on topics and on the genre, and I think we often forget that. I think we often lump women together, especially those that work in a men field, as either rare jewels held in the highest regards or something that isn't even given a chance. You shouldn't stay away from something because you're confused by it, if anything this should compel you to pursue it. However I never chose to pursue more science fiction because it felt wrong for me, like I wouldn't be able to find something in it because it wasn't made for someone like me in mind. But this is wrong. There's always something out there for us, we just have to find it and bring it to the light.
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
Why I stayed away
If I had read Craphound outside of class, I probably wouldn't have labeled it as science fiction. I mean, there's aliens, but it's kinda a casual thing. Like oh it's just everyday Canada and by the way, there's aliens here. Everything else seemed kinda normal. But what I kind of realized in that interview, more things are scifi than what we realize.
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This was really motivational so I enjoyed it, but I also liked how you talked about how broad the genre reaches and how it can be thought of many different ways.
ReplyDeleteI really like where you went with this. My only comment is that I feel like we are slowly getting more into it being ok, even cool, for girls to be into things like sci fi which you touched on with by saying that girls into stuff like that are "s either rare jewels held in the highest regards or something that isn't even given a chance." But here's my question is one of those worse than the other, like couldn't it be good for those girls to be seen as awesome (and then maybe one day it will just die down to being normal)?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I think that before I got into this class, I was stuck in the same mode of thinking. My dad and my brother were huge sci fi geeks, and my mom was into historical fiction, so I figured that sci-fi wasn't for me. I think it's the same thing for video games, so many of them are made for heterosexual males (in the characterization, activities, etc), that I really didn't go looking for games that would interest me.
ReplyDeleteI also didn't realize divergent was a scifi. I for some reason never saw sci fi as a mans thing I think it was because my dad made me watch it all the time. To be honest I didn't really think about sci fi analytically until recently like around late middle school and early high school.
ReplyDeleteOh, I love this so much! Another thing to think about: If there ISN'T something out there for you in a certain genre, that's a sign you need to make it! Think of what a market you could corner! You could define a new subgenre. Every lack is an opportunity, right?
ReplyDeleteThis was a refreshing perspective. I really liked what you had to say here and I agree that it was pretty nice to see many different opinions/perspectives from women.
ReplyDeleteTry Kim Stanley
ReplyDeleteRobinson. He has some strong female characters.