On gender issues & reading

[nat_bogorad]

"In our culture 'stories about men... function as stories about all people', so 'women learn at an early age to identify with male heroes' [...] Many men lack this experience of reading across gender lines." (Regis, A Natural History of the Romance Novel).

Oh, so true.

Comments

[a_stubborn_one]

It is))... Besides, even women in adventurous stories look more like men according to their character...

[nat_bogorad]

Women in fiction written by men seem to often bear semblance to men due to the exactly same reason: men's limited ability to assume female roles. There are indeed very few female characters created by men that come across as convincing.

Apparently, by building largely patriarchal societies men are in, a way, putting themselves at a social disadvantage, cause they lack women's ability to adapt. In many ways.