and while this story may do that from a totally outside perspective (he's a man! and he's pregnant!)
I just had to stand on the back of the couch to retrieve my copy of Women Of Wonder, The Contemporary Years from the highest bookshelf I've got. One story in it, Bloodchild by Octavia Butler, takes Mpreg and runs with it, in unbelievably genderbending, queering ways. Interestingly, the anthology was longlisted for the Tiptree award in 1995.
Fandom isn't giving this award. Why would it even occur to us that our standards are the ones that apply here?
I expect I'd react in a similar way if someone nominated something by Asimov for a mainstream literary award and then criticised it for having robots in it. Plenty of things I could and do criticize those stories for (I don't even like the majority of robot stories!) but it seems to me to be missing the point to criticize a story on those grounds. To take that hypothetical opportunity to seethe about how much I don't like robot stories would be really uncool.
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Date: 2006-05-20 07:51 pm (UTC)From:I just had to stand on the back of the couch to retrieve my copy of Women Of Wonder, The Contemporary Years from the highest bookshelf I've got. One story in it, Bloodchild by Octavia Butler, takes Mpreg and runs with it, in unbelievably genderbending, queering ways. Interestingly, the anthology was longlisted for the Tiptree award in 1995.
Fandom isn't giving this award. Why would it even occur to us that our standards are the ones that apply here?
I expect I'd react in a similar way if someone nominated something by Asimov for a mainstream literary award and then criticised it for having robots in it. Plenty of things I could and do criticize those stories for (I don't even like the majority of robot stories!) but it seems to me to be missing the point to criticize a story on those grounds. To take that hypothetical opportunity to seethe about how much I don't like robot stories would be really uncool.