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From: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Authors and Characters of Opposite Sex
Message-ID: <3733@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 11:42:46 EDT
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Reply-To: betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry)
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Summary: 


 
    The question was:  Can you tell if an author is male/female by
    how he/she handles the opposite sex?
 
   I'd give Alexei Panshin's "Rite of Passage" as a counterexample
    (male author, female protagonist, protagonist is convincingly ( for me)
     female.)
 
   Not being male, I may be incorrect, but I've always thought Ursula
   Le Guin wrote convincingly about protagonists of all sexes.  
 
  I will agree, however, that many male authors (Piers Anthony
  leaps to mind!) don't know beans about how women's minds work, but
  think they do.
-- 
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