But, as John Scalzi says pointedly, "science fiction is founded on girl cooties." After all, since girls have cooties, and the first full science fiction novel was written by a woman, then by gumbo, science fiction is founded on cooties!
Scalzi's rant is funnier than that. And no, I didn't look up the original column he's ranting about---I'd rather not encourage that kind of nonsense.
