Funny thing. Just the other day, I happened to be thinking about Robert A. Heinlein's old juvenile SF novel "Space Cadet," and how he obviously assumed (when he wrote it in the 1950s) that even a few centuries in the future, ALL the cadets at a service academy would still be male. (The same way all of his fellow students had been male when Heinlein was a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, way back in the 1920s.) I get the feeling that perhaps you were having similar thoughts when you decided to do what strikes me as a "retro" piece of sci-fi art in which a blond woman is a cadet, instead of some square-jawed young man with a crew cut? (I could be wildly wrong in guessing at your thought processes. Nobody has ever accused me of being a mind-reader.)
Funny thing. Just the other day, I happened to be thinking about Robert A. Heinlein's old juvenile SF novel "Space Cadet," and how he obviously assumed (when he wrote it in the 1950s) that even a few centuries in the future, ALL the cadets at a service academy would still be male. (The same way all of his fellow students had been male when Heinlein was a midshipman at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, way back in the 1920s.) I get the feeling that perhaps you were having similar thoughts when you decided to do what strikes me as a "retro" piece of sci-fi art in which a blond woman is a cadet, instead of some square-jawed young man with a crew cut? (I could be wildly wrong in guessing at your thought processes. Nobody has ever accused me of being a mind-reader.)