[net.women] Authors and Characters of Opposite Sex

betsy@dartvax.UUCP (Betsy Hanes Perry) (10/25/85)

 
    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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