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Originally Posted by hildea
[*]A genre has more readers among one gender than the other. No problem. But if this is used to justify making fans of the minority gender feel unwelcome, or dismiss their concerns, that is sexist, and a problem. (As an aside, I agree with meera that SF and fantasy has a lot of readers of all genders -- might not be 50/50, but probably not terribly far from that.)
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If we switch group for gender as I don't believe its a simple Male/Female/Bunny divide, you will find men that like
chick lit and women that read Car Manuals and simply trying to class everyone as one gender or the other is pointless.
Then I don't agree with this one, you risk losing your core fans if you try to write to be inclusive to a different group, some genres are what they are.
e.g Try writing a Recency Romance that appeals to the section of society that watches Top Gear and Gadget Man and you are going to be so far off genre that your original readers have left.
For a real like example Laurell K Hamiltons switch for the Anita Blake books from Urban Fantasy to Fang Porn lost a lot of her original readers.