FEM-SF rules, okay?

It seems that women can't destroy science fiction with stories about rape and mysogyny on colony planets.  What is the point of having a women's issue of an SF magazine if it doesn't deal with issues that are central to women's' existence?

I can't figure out whether the refusal to deal with this issue is because of funding constraints, or because there's some romantic notion out there that the future will be rape-free.

It's disappointing that  editors won't recognize that the problems women face today will still be around in the future.  No amount of whizzy new tech is going to make women safe in the universe if the culture doesn't give a clear signal that rape is not okay.

That's what FEM-SF is all about, dealing with women's issues in the context of the wider universe. I'm fed up with stories that preserve traditional family structures, even in universes where humans are grown in artificial wombs.  Why?  In our present culture, family is the biggest reason why so many women don't achieve their full potential.  Weighed down by kids and a controlling partner, any attempt to do great things doesn't stand a chance,

I want FEM-SF to challenge the stultifying norms that program women to breed and to accept being financially supported by someone else.  There's a whole big universe out there to explore, why do we limit ourselves in this way?  Where are the challenges to the so-called maternal instinct?  I don't have an ounce of it, and never have.  Self-sufficient, financially independent, well educated women have the choice to refuse that life of limitation, and I want to see more of them do so.

I want to see more challenges to the idea that recreational sex is good.  In my view, it's the basis of the majority of evil on our planet.  Discrimination, prostitution, sexual harassment, sexually transmitted diseases are all things we've brought on ourselves through our cultural programming that 'sex is good'.  

Back in the 1970s and 80s these issues were getting aired.  The Golden Age of SF gave women a voice through the words of the talented women authors who were writing about these issues then.

Would The Left Hand of Darkness get published today?  With the state of present SF publishing I doubt it.  It's looking like we simply don't care any more about the real issues that face women,