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When the default for ''humanity'' is male, then it's easy to project that default onto imaginary species as well.
When the default for ''humanity'' is male, then it's easy to project that default onto imaginary species as well.


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Latest revision as of 17:17, 29 April 2007

Adult human males. This common definition, however, is insufficient for feminist analysis.

So...

Men

  • A class of people created by gender divisions, which gendered ideology necessarily conflates with the biological fact of being male.
  • The people who belong to that category:
    • Male people, automatically enlisted in the gender class because of their biological characteristics.
    • Particularly, adult male people (as opposed to boys).
    • Transgendered people, who choose to enter into the gender category.

Men in SF

Like women, men in SF are apt to be non-human. Male aliens, or neuter aliens -- aliens who lack the marked characteristics commonly associated with women in popular gendered ideology -- can still be called "men" if they are even remotely anthropomorphised.

It's that whole mankind syndrome thing.

Thus: little green men, bogeymen, werewolves (the "were" means "man"), Cybermen, etc.

When the default for humanity is male, then it's easy to project that default onto imaginary species as well.