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. -- Elizabeth Hanes Perry UUCP: {decvax |ihnp4 | linus| cornell}!dartvax!betsy CSNET: betsy@dartmouth ARPA: betsy%dartmouth@csnet-relay "Ooh, ick!" -- Penfold