When I was writing my thesis about images of disability and technology in sf, many books which I had nto read since I was a teenager squicked me. Rereading H. G. Wells's _War of the Worlds_ and _Island of Dr. Moreau_ still manage to annoy me if I think about them--the man seemed to be really beind eugenics, and his options of anyone not WASP didn't seem to be that different than Lovecraft's, and yet he still gets a noncritical pass by sf literati. The worst in recent history is the fate of L337 in the film "Solo." She fights for agency and equal rights, yet her best friend ultimately enslaves her into the machine of his ship, and then loses her in a card game to another man, basically condemning her to her personal hell. I say L337 dump Solo's whiny ass and she and the ship from The Ship Who Sang have a hot lesbian cyberamazon affair.
When I was writing my thesis about images of disability and technology in sf, many books which I had nto read since I was a teenager squicked me. Rereading H. G. Wells's _War of the Worlds_ and _Island of Dr. Moreau_ still manage to annoy me if I think about them--the man seemed to be really beind eugenics, and his options of anyone not WASP didn't seem to be that different than Lovecraft's, and yet he still gets a noncritical pass by sf literati. The worst in recent history is the fate of L337 in the film "Solo." She fights for agency and equal rights, yet her best friend ultimately enslaves her into the machine of his ship, and then loses her in a card game to another man, basically condemning her to her personal hell. I say L337 dump Solo's whiny ass and she and the ship from The Ship Who Sang have a hot lesbian cyberamazon affair.
You know what's really squicky? The number of friends who recommended "The Ship Who Sang" to me because they sincerely thought it was a good and morally uplifting depiction of someone with a disability (metaphorically) like mine...
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Date: 2019-04-03 04:27 pm (UTC)(Though I gotta say: the whole central premise of "The Ship Who..." series squicks me T.F. out.)
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Date: 2019-04-03 05:45 pm (UTC)The worst in recent history is the fate of L337 in the film "Solo." She fights for agency and equal rights, yet her best friend ultimately enslaves her into the machine of his ship, and then loses her in a card game to another man, basically condemning her to her personal hell. I say L337 dump Solo's whiny ass and she and the ship from The Ship Who Sang have a hot lesbian cyberamazon affair.
Am I the only peson thinking of The Ship Who Sang?
Date: 2019-04-03 05:49 pm (UTC)The worst in recent history is the fate of L337 in the film "Solo." She fights for agency and equal rights, yet her best friend ultimately enslaves her into the machine of his ship, and then loses her in a card game to another man, basically condemning her to her personal hell. I say L337 dump Solo's whiny ass and she and the ship from The Ship Who Sang have a hot lesbian cyberamazon affair.
Re: Am I the only peson thinking of The Ship Who Sang?
Date: 2019-04-03 09:13 pm (UTC)You know what's really squicky? The number of friends who recommended "The Ship Who Sang" to me because they sincerely thought it was a good and morally uplifting depiction of someone with a disability (metaphorically) like mine...
*shudder*