Diane Trap (trap@mail.libs.uga.edu)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 09:50:31 -0400 (EDT)
> Words from the Monastery wrote:
> >
> > As I've said before ... I don't see any reason
why a genre cannot be "boys
> > only" ... girls and boys don't only look
different, but they think different
> > too and a big part of being hardboiled is the
mindset of the character ...
> > an old school masculinity that a female writer
can emulate, but a female
> > character can only pull it off in drag ...
equality is a nice thing when it
> > comes to treatment, but to say a genre has to
have it's female or male
> > equivalent is ludicrous.
So you're saying that if a woman character (using the
definitions of other posters) is a loner with a moral sense
that may be at odds with that of the rest of her society, and
is willing to put herself at risk to act on that moral sense,
sometimes violently, she wouldn't be believable.
> I have to sort-of agree. Even romance writer Tom
Huff wrote under the
> name "Jennifer Wilde".
That's not writing, that's marketing. A Jennifer Wilde
romance follows the dictates of the genre: whatever its
decorations, the story is the relationship between the main
male and female characters, and the ending is happy. The
industry caters to the most feminine sensibilities of women
readers; I don't think a man could sell a romance under his
own name to either publishers or readers.
-----Diane Trap
trap@mail.libs.uga.edu
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> from Mari Hall found.dead.in.texas@airmail.net
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