![]() ![]() ![]() And check out some highlights from the discussion below. ![]() Listen to our complete interview with Carmen Maria Machado in Episode 280 of Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy (above). “I don’t feel optimistic about it, so I don’t really have any advice,” she says. Machado also doesn’t feel that our culture’s deep-seated hostility toward women is likely to be resolved any time soon. “We have not had that conversation, and until we do I don’t think it’s possible for us to elect a woman, I really don’t.” “We never had a very public conversation where even progressive dudes were like, ‘I didn’t like the idea of Hillary Clinton being president because I have mom issues,’ or ‘I don’t like the idea of a woman telling me what to do,'” Machado says. ![]() She feels that the frenzy among pundits to explain Donald Trump’s victory has obscured another, equally important question-why Clinton lost, and the role that being a woman played in that loss. “We want women to disappear, we want women to not be taking up any kind of space-either literal space or emotional space or mental space.” “We hate women so much that we couldn’t even have a national imagination that could imagine Hillary Clinton being president,” she says. It’s an idea that Machado feels resonates powerfully with contemporary politics. Several stories in the book deal with the idea of women fading away, either literally or metaphorically. ![]()
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