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Originally Posted by Ea
Yes - as many others have pointed out as well the questions have been phrased in a way that doesn't reflect what I was really asking about. Unfortunately English is only my second language. I've more or less given up on this poll now.
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It's OK, Ea. The only well done poll I've seen on MR is my
Pet Poll.
Seriously, the poll question, "
Do you general prefer to read books by authors of you own gender?" was fine. This isn't a classroom, and some leeway can easily be given.
Designing a poll here is not easy. There is, apparently, no means of editing a poll. You create it and there it is. No changes possible.
You english is fine. Much better than the English!
To your question.
I don't "prefer" one or the other. The author that started me reading for pleasure was Andre Norton. Ann Rice was my favorite for a while. Elizabeth Moon was another author who helped to fill my book shelves.
But I no longer care for fantasy, and never could read more than a page or two of "Romance". And what ever the total percentage of female writers there are, I'm willing to bet that a very large number of them write to those two genres. And probably "Paranormal Romance", which I avoid like the plague. Another genre I rarely read any more is Detective/Mystery. That too, probably has a fair number of women authors.
So in the end, it's not that I prefer one, or the other. It's the fact that fewer women write in the genres I now prefer. Just as JSWolf said.