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What an chauvinist thing to say. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 days ago by to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
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[–] 38 points 4 days ago (10 children)

It begs the question: how do you even know the gender of an author? If we did the Pepsi challenge with a bunch of short stories and had people guess who wrote them, how accurate would those guesses even be?

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  • [–] 26 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    There is probably something to literature being gendered. But claiming this is due to biology is hella weird.

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  • [–] 12 points 4 days ago (3 children)

    This would seem to me incredibly difficult to prove or quantify in any meaningful way. Further complicated by the existence of editors.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    There has to be market research in the publishing industry for stuff like that.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago (1 child)

    Presumably, but the publishing industry helps build the norms around what counts as "female literature" and "male literature" and how both are marketed/sold, so it would be pretty limited in terms of insight.

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  • [–] 7 points 4 days ago

    you can (usually) clock men and women writing around hornyness topics tbh (or rather the particular focus), but airport level-novels aren't end all be all of writing. faulkner could have been a woman or agatha christie a man for all i care

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