Re: RARA-AVIS: mars and venus in the bookstore

From: George Upper ( gcupper3@yahoo.com)
Date: 02 May 2002


--- Carrie Pruett < pruettc@hotmail.com> wrote:
> i've found that most generalizations about who reads
> what turn out to be
> wrong.

That was my point too, actually, although perhaps I expressed it badly. My wife is pretty traditional in her thinking of gender, etc. She knows that women read h-b the same way that I know that red meat and beer aren't good for me--"intellectual" knowledge that doesn't actually affect our day-to-day thought processes.

That having been said, however, I wonder whether it's possible to generalize some of the things women like about h-b fiction versus those things men like? Granted that any such generalization could be only so accurate, I wonder how different those lists would be?

G.

===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/

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