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Apr. 3rd, 2011 07:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
naathI've been nomming all the Vorkosiverse fanfic I can find (nomnomnom) and a gorram plot bunny has BIT MY ARSE (halp) I think I shall spare everyone my appalling writing though.
Anyway, it occurred to me that whilst I'm (probably obviously) v happy that LMB has written some strong women having exciting adventures (all of which are, probably, spoilers) I'm perhaps (to me anyway) surprisingly happy about Alys Vorpatril. Who, if you haven't read the books, has, in a very gender-segregated world, a very feminine job; but it's a job she clearly takes pride in, and a job that she is very clearly recognised (by the characters and the authorial voice) as being good at, and a job that is very very clearly Important. It makes me happy that a woman doing a "woman's" job can be shown as being Important and Useful and Competent (and not dismissed as pointless).
Because whilst its also nice to know that commanding spaceships is TOTALLY something a woman could do (because it is) that all those things that women do when they aren't allowed near spaceships are also important and useful and stuff.
Of course it would be nice if more men could be shown doing such things too...
Anyway, it occurred to me that whilst I'm (probably obviously) v happy that LMB has written some strong women having exciting adventures (all of which are, probably, spoilers) I'm perhaps (to me anyway) surprisingly happy about Alys Vorpatril. Who, if you haven't read the books, has, in a very gender-segregated world, a very feminine job; but it's a job she clearly takes pride in, and a job that she is very clearly recognised (by the characters and the authorial voice) as being good at, and a job that is very very clearly Important. It makes me happy that a woman doing a "woman's" job can be shown as being Important and Useful and Competent (and not dismissed as pointless).
Because whilst its also nice to know that commanding spaceships is TOTALLY something a woman could do (because it is) that all those things that women do when they aren't allowed near spaceships are also important and useful and stuff.
Of course it would be nice if more men could be shown doing such things too...
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Date: 2011-04-03 10:12 pm (UTC)(Plus I'm not sure whether to read the rest of the books slowly, so they'll last longer (my current ploy), or to read them quickly and start writing fanfic, though I've sworn off them until I'm through À la recherche du temps perdu and I'm only about 600 pages in, so I won't have to make a decision for quite a while!)
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Date: 2011-04-04 09:24 pm (UTC)Can I has fic recs pls?
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Date: 2011-04-05 09:17 am (UTC)I like this set
http://archiveofourown.org/series/6780
(it's not complete, but the stories stand up alone)