column: EUOLoGy #4

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

reference: http://www.timewastersguide.com/view.php?id=835

Yeah, and EUOL? By all that is holy, if you ever show me a picture ANYTHING like that guy's bare *** again, I will knife you in the face.

[EUOL]

Ha.  Okay, pretend I posted this instead:

http://www.cosplayuniverse.com/ga/displayimage.php?album=3&pos=160

(For Tage.)

[MsFish]

We'll just have to accept it, people--we've been mainstreamed. No use fighting. In my current creative writing class, there are six people writing fantasy--and two of them are actually female!

 Ew!

[Mistress of Darkness]

The EUOLogy about the con should be #5, since the nice book review was #4.

[EUOL]

Actually, the review wasn't a EUOLogy.  There was a little confusion about that with the administration, but things are all worked out now.

We did it this way just to confuse you.

[Mistress of Darkness]

I can handle that.

EDIT: But you probably ought to fix the main page.

[Spriggan]

wow Pepsiman!  Haven't seen him for a while.  (he's the silver guy in that link EUOL posted)

[Tage]

Wow, those anime cosplays are really something. And thank you, EUOL, for the link to the ATHF ones. I loved them.

[stacer]

In my current creative writing class, there are six people writing fantasy--and two of them are actually female!

Actually?

Women have been involved in the fantasy genre for a long time, especially fantasy for children. Granted, there are a whole lot more men writing it for adults. But it is my mission in life to point out that children's literature is just as valid.

Okay, I know it's a minor point in a tongue in cheek piece, but still.

[MsFish]

Here, here.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Hear, hear!

[fuzzyoctopus]

What? Where?

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I hear you.

[fuzzyoctopus]

That deaf, dumb, and blind kid sure plays a mean pinball.

[EUOL]

Women have been involved in the fantasy genre for a long time, especially fantasy for children. Granted, there are a whole lot more men writing it for adults. But it is my mission in life to point out that children's literature is just as valid.

Indeed they have been involved from the beginning.  In fact, Dave always claimed that there were more women readers of fantasy than men.

However, it seems that fantasy--like SF, gaming, and RPGing--has been regulated to the arena of 'male geekdom' by our culture.  I think many women are more closet-geeks, and the fact that two women in a very small class were willing to admit to the class that they write it seemed like an interesting point to me.

Of course, one of them has decided not to do fantasy for this particular class....

(Nothing wrong with that, I suppose, Ms. Fish.)