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Re: Who's a better writer, men or women?

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No gender writes better than the other. :gay-female: :gay-male:
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Post by transitaddress »

[I think women..
because women are more emotional than the men in most number of cases,Men are considered as hard and tough,though greatest authors of all time are men..for eg:William Shakespeare,Kalidas,Shelley etc
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If we escape into the nature vs. nurture argument for a bit, I think that men are usually taught to keep their non-aggressive/non-dominant emotions to themselves (and shamed if they don't), while women are taught to be supportive and/or submissive (and shamed if they're not). This is slowly changing in several societies, but it's still a thing.

Those are just examples, but I think that those learned gender roles lead to certain perceived differences in writing. Like women looking more towards shifting balance, context, relationships, motivation, and time (why and when); while men look more towards steps, goals, purposes, and space (how and what). The greatest authors manage to look towards all of these, regardless of their gender.
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I very much agree with many of the replies to this topic and in the end I honestly couldn't pick one or the other. I agree that society has shaped each gender to be the writers that they are, with their styles and what genres suit them better than others. As a woman myself I tend to stick to reading romance and such, which tends to have me reading stuff written by female authors. But whenever I see a guy in there, I always love to read what they've written and applaud them for not sticking to the 'norms'.
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Post by chensea »

In my own opinion, men do really do good in writing. :)
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Personally, I don't think that either are really better than the other, it just depends on the author's writing style. I enjoy many books, both by male and female authors. I can understand how you say that women are often more focused on the character's feelings and men often focus more on the situation. This may be true to a certain point, but not always. For example many men often focus on murder mystery novels, but there are those few that write romance novels. I don't read that many murder mysteries, so I really am not sure if the tone is different between men who write them and women. Either way though, I think it just depends on what the writer likes and the reader's preference.
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I think it often depends on who is reading. There are a few women writers I enjoy but too often it becomes a "romance" novel. I remember one who obsessed on a niece of the protagonists who was an FBI agent and a lesbian. The first book with this character was interesting but it wore thin in a hurry for me. I suspect it wouldn't have for many women.
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One best writer is another worst,but for me abest writer is the one who leave the future unpredictable
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Post by Subnavigation54 »

To answer your question; men
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I don't think that gender has much to do with writing abilities. I could be wrong but that's just my two cents.
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Post by Manang Muyang »

I think gender is not the determining factor in writing a good book. Both men and women can write anything in any genre as long as the writer has the right inspiration and the talent to go with it.
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Writing and storytelling talent is what makes one a good writer, not gender.
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Post by shish_by_design »

This might be weird, considering that I'm a woman but I've come to realise that women do excel mainly in romantic genres, with the exception of a few like J.K. Rowling. Mostly men writers are good executioners of thrillers and all of the other genres
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It can never be said that who is better from men and women. Talent and the quality of work matters. We have very talented men as well as women writers and there is no competition among them.
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I think both men and women are good writers. Gender does not play a role in determining the skill of the writer. However, I do admit that there are a lot of low quality novels written by women in the romance and erotic genres. Still, there are many female writers with great romance novels.
In the other genres, I have not yet had any reason to note the gender of the author as it generally has no bearing on the book's quality though it may affect the writing style.
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