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Yea, it's always someone else's fault. Too bad they couldn't cruise through life with the social status of science fiction/fantasy nerd. Doors threw themselve
by LanceH 7y ago
Yea, it's always someone else's fault.
Too bad they couldn't cruise through life with the social status of science fiction/fantasy nerd. Doors threw themselves open.
We need some real social scientists to step in and quantify exactly how wronged everyone has been. Then we can sort ourselves out and defer to those who have scored more offense points than ourselves.
Or we could stop prosecuting 40+ year old rage on behalf of other people.
- AlEinstein 7y agoAnd assaulting women at conventions is cool and normal because it’s what Asimov did, right?
- worik 7y agoYes. Young men emulate high status older men, that is what I have seen.
- phs318u 7y agoOr we could learn from the past, like human beings have before. By acknowledging past mistakes and reassessing behaviours so we don’t repeat them. It’s called progress not rage. If anything, the tone I got from the author (and which I get reading it, as a fan who didn’t know this about Asimov), was one of profound sadness.
- fatbird 7y agoOne of the reasons for calling out Asimov like this is to establish that the norms that allowed him to get away with his behaviour are no longer acceptable, and to prevent this generation from pointing to them as models or excuses. There's a thoroughly practical reason for disinterring the greats like this.