But women can’t write manly things
I was reading about the transition from Middle English to Modern English, and ran across this statement in a paragraph about William Caxton:
For the first time, nonprofessional scribes, including women, were writing at length.
We certainly can’t have any of that, can we?
Back in the mid-1980s, I had the pleasure of meeting Dorothy Fontana, who was a relative of some people at my church. However, most of you don’t know her as Dorothy Fontana. She is more famous by the name that she used for most of her written work, D.C. Fontana. In the 1960s, when Fontana wrote for “The Tall Man” and other TV series, including one called “Star Trek,” there weren’t a lot of women writing for those shows. Actually, there were; you just didn’t know it:
[F]ew women were writing under their own names. Pat Fielder wrote under her name, but Pat is kind of a nebulous name. Margaret Arman. She was a great friend. Leigh Bracket in films and there were others who were active then. Joyce Perry came along. Today, the women on the CSI’s are very strong writers. So it’s changed a little bit, but a lot hasn’t changed. On the action adventure shows, you still see more male names than female names. But, it’s a little better.
So these days, we have extremely famous writers such as J.K. Rowling. (Joanne.)
And we have all the GamerGate ugliness.
It’s a little better, but not by much.
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