Switching between Voyager & TOS rewatches, I find myself struck by how far gender discourse hadn't come in 30 years. *So* much reductive thinking: about women, about relationships, about masculinity.
But it's the writers, not the generation. (TNG & DS9 were between them, & much better!)
Every generation has had people who see us all as people... and people who can't imagine drama outside crude stereotypes.
Who was the first writer you remember really *getting* a different human point of view?
@MLClark Anne McCaffery and 3 of her series;
The Brain and Brawn series
The Acorna series and
The Crystal Singer series
I have not read her post 2000 works or Dragons of Pern series
I never got into McCaffrey! (Definitely more of an SF than a fantasy kid.) What were some of the different human points of view you felt these books conveyed well?