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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:
- See also: Man.
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.