Who's a better writer, men or women?
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Re: Who's a better writer, men or women?
To suggest that there could possibly be an entire gender that is better than the other at writing is really just sad and outdated. And for those who are trying to mask their sexism by saying that men and women have different strengths in different genres, I am very sorry to hear that you don’t seem to understand anything about how gender is learned and preformed. The myriad of institutional inequalities to which you all are referring are not inherent gender differences, they are injustices. If you don’t understand that – that you are citing these differences to some sort of truth rather than to the social inequalities that produce and perpetuate them – then you should read a book.
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Beverly Lewis,Wanda E.Brunstetter,Lynn Austin,Edie Claire,Kathleen Morgan and on and on and on
So really the only books that I read are by women and boy can I tell you,they are really good,well crafted and well written!Go woman!
P.S.I am a woman writer myself!
P.P.S.I am cheering women on but I do want you to understand that I believe men writers are extremely good too(Nicholas Sparks,Dale Cramer) so it really boil down to women and men authors are equal and have a equal enough chance to write good books!
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Art-wise I think that nowadays it's pretty even for both sexes. What is so wonderful about books is how we enter someone's mind and this is inherently connected to how we view our identity. If we indentify ourselves as women, we're almost doomed to see certain things in a certain way, and the same goes the other way around.
Regarding rights or privileges, both sex are even, I don't remind any uncomfortable situation in the writing world. The best about the obvious difference in sex and identity casualities is the variety of thoughts and mentalities we get from there, that branches up to soooo many new possibilities.
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Hey, I think it's unfair to decide on basis of gender. Two names come to my mind - Agatha Christie and Sidney Sheldon. What do you say?celiacloureiro wrote:Personaly, I believe man are better in describing situations, women describing feelings.
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Just kidding. I can't say that because I'm not published yet, but one day the world shall know it!
I'm honestly not sure. I don't even know who I read more books by. I have two main favorite authors and one is a guy and one is a girl. You know what, I think we just shouldn't even be sexist. We can't categorize men or women as better. Why didn't that cross my mind sooner? Probably because I'm so tired... Anyone can be a better writer! Gender doesn't make a difference--talent, practice, and effort do!
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