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Pink SF may be fading but it's done a considerable amount of damage, in terms of turning off generations of people from reading SF and fantasy. Blue SF has won a pyrrhic victory so it's going to take a long time to turn things around.

Next feminist target: the NFL, which is in the process of being destroyed and at a much faster pace than SF because no one in the NFL wants to endanger their cash flow.

All this letter illustrates is that the left is very effective in destroying institutions, whether slowly for SF and surprisingly fast for the NFL.

And yet non-Leftists -- including Vox himself -- don't hesitate to praise the work of Leftists.

Even when such praise is deserved, it should be a matter of principle for non-Leftists to refuse to do so, because they refuse to praise the work of non-Leftists.

Of course, Leftists go even farther and actively attack the work of non-Leftists, even when it is praiseworthy. As a non-Leftist, you might not want to go that far, but it would certainly be more than justified.

The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas were not, despite Le Guin's assertion, noble. They were cowards. The ones who stayed were evil. This binary universe of honoring the yellow-bellied for their brave flight from evil is in essence everything you must understand about Pink SF.

In Pink-speak, there is NO PLACE in society for those who welcome righteous conflict.

A professional would have declined the invitation politely. A worthy foe would have opposed the book publicly on principle. A mealy-mouthed partisan? Well, she might have whined in a note and believed herself to be clever.

I'm pretty shocked that McRapey hasn't channeled LeGuin yet. Of all of them, her writing is closest to his.