Also they use this reference to claim marriage equality is solved. Just over half of Republicans haven't gotten that memo: https://news.gallup.com/poll/234866/two-three-americans-support-sex-marriage.aspx
But, you know, what good are data?
What? Fun fact, the grandfather of the
space opera genre, was such a weird kinkster that he thought women
couldn’t become lensmen (aka, green lanterns), and the highest they
could aspire in life was marry a good man.
That is the easy way to explain the concept to people who never heard of the lensmen. I know the lanterns were a silly ripoff from the lensmen with a silly kryptonite thing (yellow... really?).
Based on the examples immediately following that quote, I think his point is that attitudes to rape in fantasy literature have dramatically shifted over the past 20 years. It's unclear because he's only implying (I think) that those scenes would be unacceptable in a contemporary book.
Yes, this is the mottey content I crave.
What? Fun fact, the grandfather of the space opera genre, was such a weird kinkster that he thought women couldn’t become lensmen (aka, green lanterns), and the highest they could aspire in life was marry a good man.
Guess he had a patriarchy fetish.
What are they even trying to say?
Trying to decide whether:
or
would be more of a sneer.