#im reading some jack l chalker stuff rn which is why im thinking about this

[heedra]

most tiring thing in scifi for me is when authors (particularly dude authors) go out of their way to invent species and cultures where societal misogyny is either like cartoonishly 1000 worse than it already is on earth or where the males are innately textually stronger or smarter than the females in a "this may not be true for humans but it IS for these guys and cannot be disproven" way. there's a hundred other things you could have done. boring and unpleasant.