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From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: what makes you feel feminine/masculine VS normal.
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Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 04:54:42 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  1 04:54:42 1985
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> In article <406@ssc-bee.UUCP> celeste@ssc-bee.UUCP (Celeste A Strahl) writes:
> >In reading sci-fi books with female protagonists, I can usually tell if the
> >author is female or male.  Does anyone else get this feeling?  Are you men
> >on the network able to determine if an author is male or female by the way
> >the male protagonists is protrayed?  I'm curious.
> 
> Actually I find that often female authors portray the worse portrayals
> of men.  It's odd... I remember being offended by many female authors'
> portrayals of men as if a man had written it and was being proud of
> being macho or a stud or whatever.  I thought that this was surprising,
> that I would think to find this sort of thing from men, but actually,
> now that I think of it again, perhaps the women are overreacting in
> their desire to present an adequately macho man, or similarly, perhaps
> in their acceptance of unreasonably macho men they have accepted
> something even worse than the macho men themselves.
> 
> Whaddya think??

Perhaps women (authors) have as much trouble comprehending, and
writing about, non-stereotypical males as men do about females?  
(I can hear numerous women in this newsgroup saying, "Naawww!")  

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Michael McNeil
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	Fool.	The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is
		a pretty reason.  
	Lear.	Because they are not eight?  
	Fool.	Yes, indeed.  Thou wouldst make a good fool.  
			William Shakespeare, *King Lear*, Act I, Scene 5