70s sci-fi is frustrating because authors will present you with these wildly interesting concepts like a species of sapient geometric shapes who form gestalt personalities by stacking, but can't imagine motivations for female characters more complex than 'women be shopping'

@zebratron2084 I still think the canonical Most Egregious Example has to be The Gods Themselves by Asimov.

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