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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
As for whether there's harm in making broad generalizations about men and women, allowing they don't apply to all, well, I guess I'm going to have to plead guilty to a new word I learned in the second sentence of #14. While I'll never be an author, most good ones, at least until the last few decades, would also have to plead guilty. Here's an appreciation of one of my favorites -- someone whose novels are, in large measure, an effort to think about the differences between men and women: |
Heteronormative? I think this is the 4th time I've seen that word used and two of the other times were in polemics suggesting that not being totally non-supportive of a heterosexual orientation was a
Bad Thing. I could find little in the preceding discussion that supported a heterosexual orientation. Misogyny? Probably. That men and women tend to have different reading preferences? That one is hard to argue though again, it's statistics and that famous quote on statistics, whomever may have originally said it, definitely applies.
That writing books that fit into more genres seems to be getting more popular? Hard to argue with that one. Romance/science fiction? On that one, I will differ with my wife -- I don't care if the story is set in space or a "alien planet". When the science part of science fiction is totally missing, it ain't science fiction. I compare this to books such as Lois McMaster Bujold's
A Civil Campaign and it's dedication to "Jane, Charlotte, Georgette, and Dorothy" which is, IMNSHO, both a tribute to Georgette Heyer and science fiction. Heck, I like the Nora Roberts/J. D. Robb's
In Death series and it takes a effort at times not to toss my Kobo across the room when I read some of the space travel segments.