Thread: Do you read books by authors of your own gender?
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Old 09-23-2010, 02:08 PM   #159
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
Sorry, but the word prefer as used in the poll is incorrect. As we've read, most people here do not prefer a male or a female author. It's just that what is liked is written mostly by male or female authors (but not in all cases). So really, we don't (overall) prefer one sex to another.
Sorry, Jon. I thought that we agreed?

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Originally Posted by SameOldStory View Post

To your question.

I don't "prefer" one or the other.

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.

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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.
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