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⌈ Secret Post #589 ⌋

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126. It's going to sound sexist and you'll probably get dogpiled. I will too because I agree. Women just have a different focus when they write, where they shine the prose light on things important to them, as women. Much of the characterization is internal. The conflicts are internal and very community focused.

Men tend to shift the focus onto different things and the writing reflects that. The action, the conflicts are external and very much geared toward acts and consequences.

In a majority of the cases, you can tell if the writer is male or female.

You haven't read the same books I have, clearly. I can't say I read a whole lot outside of the fantasy/sci-fi community, but I can think of plenty of women who don't write community focused or largely internal conflicts, either one. I can also think of plenty of male authors who focus heavily on internal conflicts.

Also, you're kind of missing the point of the secret--she can like a book until she finds out it was written by a woman. Then she sees it differently.

That is sexist.

As is, I might add, broadly stereotyping female authors like that.

There may be some truth in that in a very general sense. I certainly believed it as a teenager. But now I'm a little better read, it's far too easy to think of counterexamples.

Is this a man or a woman writing? How can you tell?

I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.

How about this? Again, explain your choice.

There was a phone box by the road at the other end of the oval. He threw himself into it and threw his wallet on the little metal shelf, grabbing at coins, trying to think who to phone? The police? His dad?

Old Mr Davies was the closest. He stabbed out the number. 'Come on!' his voice sounded like a girl's. 'Come on!' What if he called the number the woman had given him?

'HOLY SHIT!' screamed Marten. He clambered out of the booth half a second before the truck rammed into it with an unbelievable sound of breaking glass. He fell and was rolling on wet grass in the dark, falling down the short slope into the oval.

The truck's engines coughed to a halt, as though embarrassed. The front of the truck was embedded in the phone box, gripped in the bent metal frame. A moment later the engine came back on as the driver slammed it into reverse.
Marten ran up the slope and grabbed the driver side door. He slammed it open and grabbed the yellow-haired man by his jacket, dragging him half out of the car. The man was tethered by his seatbelt. Despite the awkward tangle they were in, Marten managed to land a punch on his neck.

The man jerked the keys out of the ignition and stabbed them at Marten's eyes. He yelped and jumped backwards. The man started climbing out of the truck. 'You can't hurt me, boy,' he hissed. 'You don't know what you are.'

The OP said that AS SOON AS SHE FOUND OUT. She's not smart enough to be able to tell if its a female or a male writer :(. Though I sort of agree with you as well. I usually prefer womens writing to men's writing but its not like I really look at the author and say "ick it's a dude! I'm not reading this." Its just a trend I've picked up in my own reading preferences.

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Male or female? Go on, guess. :)

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