The panel did make me think, which I suppose is one sign of a good panel. I'm not ready to attend a similar panel again though.
I would've liked to hear more about women in sf/f, media or print, who're going about their lives without kids. The Sarah Jane comment was the part of the panel that piqued my interest the most.
Another trend I've been noting lately and being annoyed by is girls who become mothers to groups of boys. Wendy, most obviously, but also Nancy in the musical Oliver (I haven't read the book), and a line in last season's Smallville where a female superhero is invited to join Green Arrow's gang of superhero boys and is basically told she can take on a motherly role.
So maybe a panel along those lines. Does every female character have to be motherly?
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Date: 2008-06-10 05:34 pm (UTC)I would've liked to hear more about women in sf/f, media or print, who're going about their lives without kids. The Sarah Jane comment was the part of the panel that piqued my interest the most.
Another trend I've been noting lately and being annoyed by is girls who become mothers to groups of boys. Wendy, most obviously, but also Nancy in the musical Oliver (I haven't read the book), and a line in last season's Smallville where a female superhero is invited to join Green Arrow's gang of superhero boys and is basically told she can take on a motherly role.
So maybe a panel along those lines. Does every female character have to be motherly?