Whoa. That's heady stuff you're posting. Keep it and read it again in six months or a year. You just said that you prefer to write male characters and that men have written, for you, many of the more memorable women characters. Interesting.
I can say, at 50, that there were very few female characters to read about when I grew up. Not kick-ass ones, at any rate.
One of my stories in draft is exclusively about women, there are no men. And my older sister (by ten years) told me reading about women was boring to her, lacked interest.
There's so very much here, in what you threw out there. Papers and dissertations worth. Gender studies and genre studies both. Why is male/male erotic genre fiction written and read mostly by women, for example?
Shivers. This stuff sends shivers down my spine and sparks more ideas. Back to my first drafts I go. I go, I go, see how I go.
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I can say, at 50, that there were very few female characters to read about when I grew up. Not kick-ass ones, at any rate.
One of my stories in draft is exclusively about women, there are no men. And my older sister (by ten years) told me reading about women was boring to her, lacked interest.
There's so very much here, in what you threw out there. Papers and dissertations worth. Gender studies and genre studies both. Why is male/male erotic genre fiction written and read mostly by women, for example?
Shivers. This stuff sends shivers down my spine and sparks more ideas. Back to my first drafts I go. I go, I go, see how I go.
Oz