Read one, and you don't have to complain about it, read several and you start to see it pervasive and an outlook of the times. Because ya know, it would be nice to admit that women have sexual desires as well, and that it's especially convenient if that would mean them pleasing the protagonist that just shows up. Likewise I've started to read all the classic sci fi, and it is very noticeable, that women just want to have sex with the main character for no real reason. > Firstly, why does every story need to include a mix of genders speaking?ĭid every Saturday morning cartoon have to end with explaining the moral of the story, and followed by a joke with the whole cast laughing? They didn't, but they sure used to.ĭid the old knightly tales always have to show christian values and knightly valour, through a whole lot of christian symbolism? They didn't, but they sure used to. His notion of gender was deeply unsettling. When he came back every explicit woman was some kind of super-powered bimbo.Īsimov was at his best when you couldn't sense any gender. Then Asimov took a three-decade break from fiction. At the most intimate moments, are they looking? It’s the voice in your ear.”Īnd I'm just going off the top of my head here. I still remember the cringe-worthy line: “Listen, men respond to voices. * Several stories about "intuitive robots" who had to be made feminine so that men would bother talking to them. * "Little Miss", whose only achievement is being open-minded about her "male" robot being sentient * about five shrewish mothers who didn't trust robots around their children and were proven wrong * the wife who ruins her husband's chance to hook up with a real bombshell on Mars by showing up a little too early with her mother
* the woman who poisoned her genius husband after he created a temporary time-travel technology because she didn't believe he'd ever get the credit * the mother who saved a robot instead of her biological child and was killed by her husband * the housewife who fell in love with her robot Susan Calvin as the distant, unfeeling woman who could only be a mother to a robot was one. None of Asimov's early male characters have actual gender.Įvery time he tried to assign gender it was horrible.