I couldn't think of his name when I was answering the question about Barbie dolls, but the story "The Barbie Murders" was by John Varley; it's in his 1980 collection The Barbie Murders and Other Stories (which is full of fascinating stories).
This is such an amazing lecture I've learnt so much and heard about so much literature I've never heard of before! Thank you for the intense amount of time you put into preparing this lecture!
@@jimendersby3301 I have just binge-watched three of these lectures* and I could listen to 10 more. I wish you had included the human-hating robots of Stanislaw Lem in your lecture about robots, but I get why you had to limit the topics you covered. *while sewing, so I avoided being a flawed woman by being too perfect a listener
Fascinating talk, and one that reveals to me how I have changed since being a boy in the 80's. Even then I seem to have inherited ideas about women that damaged my heart and mind. I see these ideas now in all their dehumanising horror.
That line about what is science fiction reminds me much of a line I once read about how you tell if two very similar groups of animals count as one species or two (or more). You find the one person who's been studying them for the past 20 years and you ask them.
This Olympia character from the Sandman is the ancestor of the Count of Count from Sesame Street. Consider this a suggestion for a future lecture topic.
Fascinating lecture! It was interesting that Stanley Kubrick didn't use a female voice for his HAL 2000. "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" might not have sounded so creepy. Or...
Absolutely (as I briefly mentioned in the more extended text, which you can find on the Gresham website. Simone de Beauvoir wrote: "Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean house becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over and over, day after day. The housewife wears herself out marking time: she makes nothing, simply perpetuates the present…. The years no longer rise up toward heaven, they lie spread out ahead, gray and identical. The battle against dust and dirt is never won".
@@jimendersby3301 thank you. also, I found your lecture very helpful in understanding better what she meant when she said "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."
@@jimendersby3301many men’s occupations were highly repetitive in nature. More akin to Sisyphus task than a house who does mere house chores. Now days many women would rather have house chores and then go to yoga class, and join girlfriends for shopping, rather than 9 to 5 soul crushing repetition.
