"It has been suggested that Tiptree is female, a theory that I find absurd, for there is to me something ineluctably masculine about Tiptree’s writing."
Robert Silverberg

"(you (Tiptree) have ideas)... no woman could even think, or understand, let alone assent to."
Joanna Russ

The usual accounts of the Turing test assert that it is an assertion about being able to discern if the machine is or is not human. A detail pushed aside in these accounts is that in the original - could you discern the sex of the person/machine from a written exchange. A detail which seems far more important. It's interesting that the current variants of the disquiet that attends the distribution of gender traits often has an IT feel. Perhaps amplified by the text based nature of online social media to date. Things like TikTok will probably push things out in a different way.

#JamesTiptreeJr #gender #TuringTest #IT #writing #SocialMedia #philosophy @philosophy

"I have a cold mind and a warm heart, whereas most people have cold, troubled hearts and warm, muggy minds, which they mistake for sincere feelings."

Alli Sheldon [James Tiptree Jr.]

#compassion #JamesTiptreeJr #intellect

Fanac is a real rabbit hole. This is Khatru 3 & 4 (1975) devoted to an extended discussion of #feminism and #sciencefiction. It contains contributions/dialogs between #SuzyMcKeeCharnas #SamuelRDelany #VirginiaKidd #UrsulaKLeguin #VondaNMcIntyre #RaylynMoore #JoannaRuss #JamesTiptreeJr #LuiseWhite #KateWilhelm #ChelseaQuinnYarbro #JeffreyDSmith.

It appears to be the backbone of the brilliant chapter on #feminism in "James Tiptree, Jr.: The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon" by Julie Phillips

#fanzine #JuliePhillips #AliceBSheldon

https://www.fanac.org/fanzines/Khatru/Khatru03.pdf

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What are 5-7 of your favorite authors? add them as hashtags so we can find each other, boost this, share your own, etc. some of mine:

#JamesTiptreeJr
#UrsulaKLeGuin
#JGBallard
#WilliamGibson
#StanislawLem
#KurtVonnegut
#StrugatskyBrothers

#bookstodon

"I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here."

Alice B Sheldon

#quote #letter #AliceBSheldon #JamesTiptreeJr #sciencefiction #literature