{"id":3843,"date":"2012-01-27T21:03:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T02:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3843"},"modified":"2012-01-27T21:03:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T02:03:51","slug":"why_dont_women_read_science_fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/why_dont_women_read_science_fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"why don&#8217;t women read science fiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Paul of the NYT Sunday Book Review wants to know <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/29\/books\/review\/a-wrinkle-in-time-and-its-sci-fi-heroine.html?_r=1&#038;src=twr&#038;pagewanted=all\">why grown women don&#8217;t read science fiction<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What is it then that makes girls averse to science fiction? Could it be the pronounced boyness of the covers \u2014 the same signal that deters girls from switching to Superman after their Betty and Veronica days have passed? Science-fiction books, whether technologically elaborate, intergalactic stories by the likes of Arthur C. Clarke and Hal Clement or the so-called \u201csoft\u201d science fiction of Ray Bradbury and Philip K. Dick, often wear dark washes of black and navy blue with 3-D fonts and brutal images of fire and destruction.<br \/>\nYet there isn\u2019t anything inherently unfeminine about science fiction. Some might say the dystopic fantasy, apocalyptic tales and paranormal romance so popular with today\u2019s teenage girls are actually couched \u201cgirl-friendly\u201d variants of science fiction. Perhaps. But why should science fiction proper be any less welcoming to girls?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Paul of the NYT Sunday Book Review wants to know why grown women don&#8217;t read science fiction: What is it then that makes girls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}