Ann Leckie has important things to say on the subject of not being punched in the face

Over here:

There isn’t only one axis on which something can be significant, or advance the genre. And declaring that only the axes that are important to you matter–particularly when the axes being dismissed are ones that matter a lot to women, LGBT, and POC–is a move straight out of How to Suppress Women’s Writing.

5 thoughts on “Ann Leckie has important things to say on the subject of not being punched in the face

  1. what? I’m sorry, but this looks like the sort of thing I might write when I’ve been drinking. What does it mean? Don’t you owe it to Ann Leckie to either actually quote the bits about “not being punched in the face”, or change your title?

  2. I’ve usually found it pretty easy to click through a link and read what’s being said there before fussing over the title attached to it. On the other hand, there was that time when I read Lord of the Rings and was very upset that no actual Lord appeared for several of the introductory paragraphs.

  3. Well, I did click through, and couldn’t much make out what she was talking about either. If you have a point to make, it behoves you to make it clearly, without jargon and acronyms. I’m pretty sure I”m as liberal as the next guy, but I’m not sure what point either Leckie or Liz is trying to make here

  4. If I had not already read and loved Ancillary Justice, I would be getting my hands on a copy right now. :)

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    The only “jargon” or acronyms I see in Leckie’s post are: POC, LGTB, and cis. Even assuming that for some reason your google isn’t working, if you honestly don’t know what any of those terms mean then no, you aren’t “as liberal as the next guy.” Not to mention the fact that the analogy and post still makes sense for women, even if you have no idea which other marginalized peoples Leckie is talking about.

    But then, I also have this crazy opinion that people who start their comments with random insults shouldn’t presume to tell the people they just insulted what they should do. Silly me, I’m sure.

  5. I’m sorry, but this looks like the sort of thing I might write when I’ve been drinking.

    Have you been drinking, Broughton? Because a) you’re being needlessly rude and dismissive, and b) if you’d bothered to click through the link, it should be fairly obvious that Leckie is making an analogy about reading sexist/racist/*ist SFF which is lauded for its other qualities. Wonderful food. Face-punching service.

    The introductory sentence is a little confused, I grant, but not impossible to figure out. Did you, by any chance, read the first comment?

    If you find it beyond your comprehension, perhaps you should go away and think about it for a few days before complaining that it makes no sense.

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