Re: New member

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
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