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Originally Posted by MikeB1972
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.
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I'm not sure I understand you. If you remove gender from my statement, it becomes completely meaningless.
I agree with you, there are men who like chick lit and women who like car manuals. There is no genre that is only read by one gender. So what I was saying is that we should make sure we don't exclude people or make them feel unwelcome when they like books (or other things) that are unusual for their gender.
Some examples of things that make people feel unwelcome:
- Hold a panel on women in comics, invite only male panelists link
- When male authors visit your school, let all the pupils go to their speech, but when female authors visit, only let the girls go link
- Write about "authors" and "lady authors" in a genre, comment on the looks of the "lady authors" link
- Tell a male author he's not welcome in a romance forum because of his gender link
(And yes, there are more genders than just men and women. Also, there are other kinds of discrimination facing other groups, like people of color and LGBT people. This thread has mostly been about gender, so I'm writing about that.)