All UFOs, proceed to Glasgow, please

The Scotsman reports on Worldcon in Glasgow:

Within minutes the discussion is orbiting so far above my head there is nothing to do but duck and crawl towards the door. The other panel is already packed with aficionados arguing about why The X-Files's Scully trumps Star Trek's Spock, and so I am left in a vacant corridor to ponder the weekend's other panels. One that catches my eye is: "Asexuality is the New Gay: But is it also the default of Science Fiction?" A sell-out, I'll wager, based on the number of androgynous single males wandering around lonely as a cloud of dark matter. The panel says it will appeal to the following: "In the middle of the sex scene, do you find yourself wanting to get back to the technical description of the star drive?"
For those who like their panels a little friskier and feel guilty that they prefer their science fiction art draped with scantily clad honeys in moon boots there is "Fem-bots and fairies": "Although we no longer live with the nipple shortage of the 1950s, fantasy art remains unreconstructed. Why hasn't feminism affected SF and fantasy art?" Bound to be plenty of seats at this one, the obvious answer being that science fiction remains largely the preserve of the single male, many of whom are better equipped at dealing with alien species than the opposite sex. (These men mistakenly bought Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus and thought the plot a bit thin and the science fiction unconvincing.) More popular no doubt will be "Xena, Buffy, Hex: Is Lesbianism in Genre TV Progressive"?