Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site orca.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!tektronix!orca!ariels From: ariels@orca.UUCP (Ariel Shattan) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: what makes you feel feminine/masculine VS normal. Message-ID: <1841@orca.UUCP> Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 14:53:01 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1841 Posted: Thu Oct 24 14:53:01 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 26-Oct-85 05:24:50 EDT References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> Organization: sixes and sevens Lines: 29 Celeste: > 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. > What attributes are we picking up from these books? > > For example, 3 science fiction books > C.J. Cherryh - 40000 in Gehenna > F.M. Bussy - Rissa Kerguelen series > Robert Heinlein - The Number of the Beast > Each have a competent female protagonist. > Heinlein's female is not real to me - instead she is obviously what HE > would consider to be the perfect woman. > C.J. Cherryh seems to capture the "feminine" feeling and relates it well. > As I read it, I feel only a woman could know those feelings. > F.M. Bussy - well I'm not sure here. The woman is too "macho". I think this > is a female author, but she seems to have dropped the "feminine" side of this > woman. F.M. Busby (not "Bussy") is distinctly male, as any young woman who meets up with him at a convention can tell you. He does write decent feminist fiction, though; "For a Daughter" in Amazons II for example. Don't forget that there are women who *are* very macho, and who don't often show a feminine side. Ariel (Hey, Buzz has got his lobster hat on again!) Shattan ..!tektronix!orca!ariels