Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site utcs.uucp Path: utzoo!utcs!flaps From: flaps@utcs.uucp (Alan J Rosenthal) Newsgroups: net.women Subject: Re: what makes you feel feminine/masculine VS normal. Message-ID: <944@utcs.uucp> Date: Mon, 28-Oct-85 20:10:14 EST Article-I.D.: utcs.944 Posted: Mon Oct 28 20:10:14 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 28-Oct-85 21:21:12 EST References: <248@ssc-vax.UUCP> <1944@reed.UUCP> <32@ubc-cs.UUCP> <406@ssc-bee.UUCP> Reply-To: flaps@utcs.UUCP (Alan J Rosenthal) Organization: University of Toronto Lines: 17 Summary: 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??