Who's a better writer, men or women?
- Lust_for_Literature
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You just keep digging yourself deeper and deeper buddy. Gender is a false binary that determines unnecessarily strict guidelines and expectations. I suppose you are entitled to your preferences, but I think you would have a lot to gain from loosening up. Try reading The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. Or anything by Agatha Christie, a WOMAN who is, incidentally, the top-selling crime author of all time. Just saying, do your research first.StephenKingman wrote:No, not sexist just giving my own opinion. Im not living in the 1940s with regard to my views on women and equality, im just saying that of all the books that i have read from crime to horror (i HATE fantasy!!) to thrillers etc, i have personally found that men make the superior author in these genres. They tend to just stick to logical facts and develop the character in such a way that they dont pause to describe their inner emotional turmoil every 5 seconds which a lot of female authors do. That way you can relate to and care about the character when his motivations and feelings are doled out in small quantities rather than wearing you down with constant mumbo jumbo about "This feels wrong, i love my wife (X200) etc etc. Its quality of character development not quantity.Fran wrote:Oh my goodness a neanderthal in our midst & there was I thinking you were a 21st century guy! How very sexist of you ... no wonder you like fantasy!StephenKingman wrote:Men are better at writing thrillers and horror, as their logical and technical minds transfer better over print. Women are great at all that romance and touchy feely stuff. Alice Sebold would be a much better author were it not for the limitations of her gender- in practically all her books, she tangentialises at key stages of the book to explore the inner thoughts and feelings of her main character which is very intrusive and not at all appropriate to the situation at hand, whereas male writers tend to concentrate on the action first.
Women authors tend to excel in romantic novels because they are more attuned to their feelings than men are and this helps them with their descriptive talent to writing novels. Not at all am i saying that they are inferior authors i am just saying that personally i find men can write better thrillers and horror.
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I am a man and for a while I was illusioned to believe that I was a part of the "better" gender when it comes to writing and other academic pursuits (good ol' patriarchy). I slowly learned that it is simply impossible to measure either or and that I need to respect each and every person who writes no matter their gender or expression. Deciding that some traits are masculine and some feminine diminishes talent and ability. Pigeonholing anyone into types of writing they 'may' be good at based on gender is not effective. Both genders can be good at writing, great at writing, amazing at writing, poor at writing. The gender binary is not a reference but rather a useless old "science". I'm much more interested in content no matter the gender.
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There are great male authors and there are great female authors.
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