Blog fodder for June 5th:
- Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction and Fantasy : The Issue of Gender in Genre Fiction: The Math Behind it All by Susan E. Connolly – Knowing that some people will be curious about the math behind Susan’s piece, we asked her to provide something a bit more technical for those more mathematically inclined among us.
- Clarkesworld Magazine – Science Fiction and Fantasy : The Issue of Gender in Genre Fiction: A Detailed Analysis by Susan E. Connolly – Gender representation in genre fiction is an issue that’s been getting more and more attention, but nobody had yet assembled a comprehensive review of the data. Now that I have collected this data, I can see why. So many emails . . . So much Excel.
- Investing in Whiteness: the UCSB tragedy and Asian AmericaSocial Text – I don’t want to contribute to his celebrity status here; I do believe that this shooting and his statements about his motivation teach us important things about the operationalization of things like the model minority myth or American masculinity and pathology. I offer a cultural critique to see what sense can be made of this tragedy and what sad sense this tragedy makes of critical theory and its continued relevance.
- How Different Cultures Understand Time – Business Insider – Americans do time like this, Asians do time like this