Charles Coleman Finlay (
Well, to that, I say: Way to go guys. Way to organise them women.
It's not that I don't see the point, really, I do, but you got to admit that there's some irony in watching a white male who has been published in Fantasy and Science Fiction fairly regularly motivate the poor, downtrodden, and unwanted feeling women to submit. There's nothing like breaking down those social power structures, I find. Incidently, have I pointed out that I'm a white male who is pointing out the power structure of men and women, here? Perhaps I could have a nice chair put above everyone and I could look down upon everyone and say, "positions of power are a difficult thing to navigate. If you find an already dominate power figure to champion the cause of the minority, and to be their voice, what then are you truly accomplishing?"
Well, it's the blogsphere, and Finlay has his heart in the right place, so there's not much damage, I suppose.
For my money, however, I'd have to side with Nick Mamatas (
As Mamatas says, I'd be more interested in finding different markets if I was a female sci-fi author (go where the getting is good, as he says).