{"id":1199,"date":"2003-06-05T21:36:24","date_gmt":"2003-06-06T04:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/06\/05\/1199.html"},"modified":"2003-06-05T21:36:24","modified_gmt":"2003-06-06T04:36:24","slug":"editorializing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/06\/05\/editorializing\/","title":{"rendered":"Editorializing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It occurred to me last night that not everyone who reads this journal reads <cite>SH,<\/cite> and thus that I ought to provide a pointer from here to my latest editorial, titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2003\/20030602\/editorial.shtml\">The Future of Sex<\/a>.\"  I think that my thesis got a little muddled under the weight of attempts to throw in a bunch of related stuff, as I'm wont to do, so I restated it more pithily on the <cite>SH<\/cite> Forum page:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I feel that societies portrayed in fictional future worlds should be at least as sexually diverse as modern American society, unless there's a good reason for them not to be.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But the main thing y'all should read if you're into gender-issues-in-sf stuff is \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.strangehorizons.com\/2002\/20020218\/both_and.shtml\">Both\/And: Science Fiction and the Question of Changing Gender<\/a>,\" by Sherryl Vint.  I loved the title when we first published it, and was intrigued that it discussed my two main examples of transsexuality in science fiction (Delany's <cite>Trouble on Triton: An Ambiguous Heterotopia<\/cite> (formerly known as merely <cite>Triton<\/cite>) and Varley's <cite>Steel Beach<\/cite>), but somehow didn't get around to reading it.  While I was writing the editorial, I Googled for those two book titles and followed the link to this article and got halfway through it before I realized that it was in fact something we'd published.  (Go us!)  Good stuff.  It addresses the unease I had with the gender roles in <cite>Steel Beach,<\/cite> and makes me think that I probably gave <cite>Triton<\/cite> too short shrift (because I read it as doing much the same kinds of things with gender that the Varley book did).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It occurred to me last night that not everyone who reads this journal reads SH, and thus that I ought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}