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Originally Posted by hildea
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.
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Not remove, exactly, just replace gender with a different grouping.
If you take, say, Richelle Mead as an author, she writes what I will call here "Sex & The City Urban Fantasy" (It's urban fantasy with a lot of information and description of shoes) and Larry Correia who writes what I will call "Gun Nut Urban Fantasy" (as above but with a lot of information and description of guns), now to try to be inclusive of the other authors fans you will (probably) upset enough of your own fans that it is against your own interest to try to appeal to the other fans. And this is picking two authors who (except for the shoes & guns) write in the same genre.