I don't see how not including women as "hard-boiled"
dismisses them in the
least. Hard-boiled is not some pinnacle of success to reach
in order to be
considered a good writer ... it's sub-genre period. Men and
women are not
alike no matter how much we preach equality ... we are not
only physically
different, but psychologically different as well ... it's not
a sign of
inferiority that we are different ... we're just not the
same. There's
nothing wrong with a subgenre which presents a male point of
view and
another which presents a feminine one. We really need to get
off this PC
bullshit and get onto celebrating the differences instead of
trying to
broaden the definitions to the point of generality at best.
No one was
created equal and no one ever will be. Thank God ... what
boring world
that'd be.
----
volente Deo,
Anthony
jackechs@erols.com or ICQ #3717510
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/4640/
"Estimated number of calls made to Californian Al Nino
since last year by people asking, "Why are you doing
this?" 100" -- Harper's Index, June 1998
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