As any teenage nerd will tell you (and I still remember being one myself, oh so long ago), being into sci-fi (or for that matter, comics, video games of fantasy role-playing), does not exactly bring all the girls to the yard.
Science Fiction has always been an overwhelmingly male dominated genre, and even though women were the focus of several sci-fi films in 1952, the mere fact that these women were more often than not, sexual objects, slave girls, being kidnapped for breeding purposes or impregnated by a mandrake root (yeah, you read that correctly), the inherent misogyny of the genre would not be changing anytime soon.
To be honest, it really hasn't even changed to this day, but that is another story for another time.
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