Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site 3comvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!oliveb!3comvax!michaelm From: michaelm@3comvax.UUCP (Michael McNeil) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: what makes you feel feminine/masculine VS normal. Message-ID: <262@3comvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Nov-85 04:54:42 EST Article-I.D.: 3comvax.262 Posted: Fri Nov 1 04:54:42 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 06:32:30 EST References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> <406@ssc-bee.UUCP> <944@utcs.uucp> Organization: 3Com Corp; Mountain View, CA Lines: 36 [this line staked out.] > 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!") -- Michael McNeil 3Com Corporation "All disclaimers including this one apply" (415) 960-9367 ..!ucbvax!hplabs!oliveb!3comvax!michaelm 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