I don't mind women's rights taking a hit because I think the to an extent women's rights probably would take a hit, because in a crisis, all social constructs take hits and social constructs break down, perhaps allowing for things like age relationships that would give us the willies in our day to day society, like the girl scout/scout leader or Dale/Andrea in The Walking Dead. Even Laura Roslin says, 'we need to get the hell out of here and start making babies.'
In fact I hate it more when every one still holds the morals and attitudes of early 21st century America after the Nukes/Zombies/Cylons/Comets/enviromental disaster screws things up. Crisis changes things; often in ways no one would expect when the crisis started. If the status quo holds, I feel like they are cheating the reader just as much as when the authors wear their ideology on their shoulder and expect all their ideals to stand up to the crisis and all those pinko/commie/liberal/communalist/ people we don't like (or on the flip side all those war mongering manly men, I've seen that too) are gotten rid of.
Some authors/shows that I think strike a better balance than Niven/Pournelle did. They include IMHO, SM Stirling's 'Dies the Fire' trilogy, Max Brook's World War Z, Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy, Harry Turtledove in many of his works, BBC's Survivors (2008), Battlestar Galactica (2003 version), both the television and comic s of The Walking Dead.
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Date: 2013-01-25 05:27 pm (UTC)In fact I hate it more when every one still holds the morals and attitudes of early 21st century America after the Nukes/Zombies/Cylons/Comets/enviromental disaster screws things up. Crisis changes things; often in ways no one would expect when the crisis started. If the status quo holds, I feel like they are cheating the reader just as much as when the authors wear their ideology on their shoulder and expect all their ideals to stand up to the crisis and all those pinko/commie/liberal/communalist/ people we don't like (or on the flip side all those war mongering manly men, I've seen that too) are gotten rid of.
Some authors/shows that I think strike a better balance than Niven/Pournelle did. They include IMHO, SM Stirling's 'Dies the Fire' trilogy, Max Brook's World War Z, Mira Grant's Newsflesh trilogy, Harry Turtledove in many of his works, BBC's Survivors (2008), Battlestar Galactica (2003 version), both the television and comic s of The Walking Dead.