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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
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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??