I must shiver when you're warm

[communi_kate]

If you're reading this, then you should go straight over to Kameron Hurley's article on women in fiction "We Have Always Fought." Go ahead. It's over here at A Dribble of Ink.
Come back when you finished. I'll leave the door open.
Now as you would expect from the title, the the article's about women in history and cannibalistic llamas and it's got art by Jason Chan,
And it's true.
Now I can't vouch for the historical sources Hurley cites, but I can tell you that most of the people I work with with in the veterinary field are women, and the percentage is getting ever larger. I see women dealing with bloods and stress and shouting, swearing people; women with a scalpel in their hand, women spending hours in a freezing, shit-covered stable with their hand inside a cow at four in the morning; women who are mothers and daughters and sisters and just all around fucking amazing people.
It's a fact that most men are physically stronger than most women but physical strength is only PART of fighting, and it's not themost important part.
We have always, always fought.

Comments

[everbright]

I read that! The main thought of that article seems to be the new narrative that's been going around, that the type and kind of sexism we see in a lot of fantasy literature is not only more a reflection of the author's mind than reality, but that women were being actively written out of history. It's cool that the argument about sexism and racism and all the other -isms in fiction being 'historical accurate' is a load of horseshit.

[communi_kate]

There's a lot of things about history that we can never know, at least without a working time machine (and it's fair to assume that a working time machine will never be built because we aren't chock full of time travelling visitors from the future) but one thing we can be fairly certain about is that 50% of the population has always been female.