The Women Men Don't See See" was also nominated for the 1974 Locus Award for Best Short Story. PZ Myers describes the narrator of "Women" as not just unreliable, but "irrelevant"—"a man who comes along for the ride and really doesn't understand anything that's going on, because he can't see the real protagonists as anything but a couple of women." The Women Men Don't See The Women Men Don't See is a novelette written by Alice Bradley Sheldon under the pseudonym James Tiptree, Jr. Originally published in "Fantasy and Science Fiction" in 1973, it subsequently was republished in the magazine's October 1979 thirtieth anniversary issue,
Gay beat Gay beat In Australia, the term beat is used to refer to an area frequented by gay men, where sexual acts occur. This use of the word parodies the beat walked by a police officer or a prostitute. Most commonly, public toilets, parks, and nightclubs are used as beats, though sometimes suburban car parks become beats after nightfall. Sex researchers have found that a considerable proportion of men who use "beats" are men who have sex with men (MSMs) rather than gay-identifying. This is possibly because, while gay men have a plethora of venues for meeting legitimately, MSMs – who