re: Bookstore flips male authors

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And anyway, Pierre discovered polonium and radium, Marie just took credit for it

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marie discovered tedium and ad nauseum

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Cynicism?

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No? I read and enjoyed both of those author's books. Men and women are different in every capacity including writing. I like depth, nuance and detail, things male writers are often best at. Women are often great at things like creating fantastic characters and interesting story arcs.

I disagree with Zach that women are not good writers, they are just different than male writers. Id gander to say men often prefer works done by men and women prefer works by women.

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So, Margaret Mitchell, Pearl Buck, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, Eudora Welty, Daphne du Maurier, etc., etc. are oh, just average writers that could never match anything written by male writers?!?!

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Correct. Buck is especially shitty.

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Ayn Rand's books had great stories but the dialogue, pace, and details really suffered.

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Rand was a great thinker but bad writer. She writes as if there is no second draft to edit.

This is a nit pick but I can't stand people blowing something simple as a deep moment.

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We've silenced male authors, leaving works of women in view

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It's not really silencing male authors. If I could find a male written book I wished to purchase, would you refuse to sell it to me?

If yes, then you've silenced male authors because their work isn't be disseminated.

If you still sell it, then you didn't silence them; you just made it harder to find their woks.

The pictures on the cover or the knowledge that the book is written by a man or woman isn't the message of the author.

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Maybe the best selling woman author of all time. Stories and characters were always fantastic but she struggled terribly with continuity, details..and creating a made up wizard sport where the rules actually made sense.

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The later ones depended heavily on ghost writers anyway.

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And anyway, Pierre discovered polonium and radium, Marie just took credit for it.

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He was 'prolly bangin' her.

My favorite female author of all time is Misanthropic Bitch. She was a journalism student in 1997 and wrote a blog in the early Internet days. It was must reading for me.

I found her archives. In it she excoriates female authors even though she is one. Here is a sampling of female writing titled:

Stupid Teen Girl

I am a woman, and think the marketing idea is beyond stupid!

I read vociferously, both male and female authors. There are plenty of very good books written by both women and men.

The "sexist" commentary in today's world is SAD.