>>13784412Hiring policies were male writers have to pretend to be female to get published. Also women are hired by virtue of their previous work. In the continued psychosis that if a series or genre has a lot of fans any demographic but theirs should be catered to to increase audience and profits. A show like Star Trek Discovery for instance will hire a writer from something like 13 Reasons Why or Virgin River and talk them through the shows writers Bible. Whereas Star Trek in the 60s hired pulp sci-fi writers.
Also Sci-fi has been shit for 20 years since the success of Battlestar Galactica and Cyberpunk. It has been long out of fashion to present a desirable future. It has to be 'gritty' and 'real' and fails in the latter.
To be fair real Space future was shelved slightly before this fiction phenomena and it might reflect that.
