I did say that "female SF writers" would be best. But grammar depends on actual usage. Taking a quick Google survey, "women scientists" appears ten times as often as "woman scientists." If grammarians claim that this is wrong because we would say "girl scientists" rather than "girls scientists," then grammarians have clearly failed to take into account the existence of an unrecorded but obviously extant grammatical rule in people's minds - and that is where grammar really lives, not on the page, which is merely an imperfect recording of the facts - that plurals made of -en operate differently in this particular context than plurals formed of -s.
This is for the same reason that it's not incorrect to say "It's me" rather than the ridiculous "It is I." If grammarians can't accept that "It" is the subject of that sentence and "me" is the object - which is why people say "It's me" - then grammarians are simply wrong.
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Date: 2013-04-29 05:24 pm (UTC)This is for the same reason that it's not incorrect to say "It's me" rather than the ridiculous "It is I." If grammarians can't accept that "It" is the subject of that sentence and "me" is the object - which is why people say "It's me" - then grammarians are simply wrong.