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From:Andreas Johansson <and_yo@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 30, 2001, 18:53
Roger Mills wrote:
>My questions exactly. As Yoon Ha herself knows, we tend to assume everyone >is male until proven otherwise ;-)
Do we? I can recall several occasions of me believing an author to be female for half a book or more, and only then discover he was actually male, but I can't seem to remember any example of the opposite thing. This only seems to work for authors tho' - there's been more than one I-novel whose feminine narrator I've thought to be male for the first few pages, but can't think of any example of the other way around. Since I'm told that a clear majority of authors are male, and I know for a fact that most author's I've read are male, it can't well be down to us seeing certain roles or professions being primarily associated with one gender (eg we'll all assume, say, a soldier to be male, even tho' the term as such is gender-neutral). Andreas _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.

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