Female Writers

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Looking at the NYTIMES List this morning I dismissed all written by females. I don't read female writers, with a few exceptions: Camille Paglia, Florence King, Peggy Noonan, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. I tried Zora Neal Hurston but the book was so marker damaged it was impossible to decipher beneath all the dark underlining and notes. I own several female written noir novels but theyre equally lame tho classics. I assume the problem is with me but cant put my finger on my bias tho I know why I like the female writers I like....they set aside what I call the female soap opera mythology.

 

[PayDay]

Margaret Weis wrote a ton of D&D novels I read as a kid, she's great as an author, and her stories are beyond memorable. She tends to go unrecognized due to the serial/fantasy nature of the books and because she 'co-wrote' alot of the TSR stuff, but her characters run from young to old, and are all well rounded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Weis


Same goes for Anne McCaffery and her Pern stuff, though she got famous.

 

[riannauk]

the problem is not with you, there is too much female soap opera as you say, women are too scared i suppose to admit exactly what they want, too scared of how others perceive them to not write in this particular fashion. i dont know if that was at all relevant... i hope it is ..

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Trolling for comments?

Looking at the NYTIMES List this morning I dismissed all written by females. I don't read female writers, with a few exceptions: Camille Paglia, Florence King, Peggy Noonan, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. I tried Zora Neal Hurston but the book was so marker damaged it was impossible to decipher beneath all the dark underlining and notes. I own several female written noir novels but theyre equally lame tho classics. I assume the problem is with me but cant put my finger on my bias tho I know why I like the female writers I like....they set aside what I call the female soap opera mythology.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Trolling for comments?

Not from you, faggot.

 

[jenny_5]

Looking at the NYTIMES List this morning I dismissed all written by females. I don't read female writers, with a few exceptions: Camille Paglia, Florence King, Peggy Noonan, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. I tried Zora Neal Hurston but the book was so marker damaged it was impossible to decipher beneath all the dark underlining and notes. I own several female written noir novels but theyre equally lame tho classics. I assume the problem is with me but cant put my finger on my bias tho I know why I like the female writers I like....they set aside what I call the female soap opera mythology.

Maybe you're just not interested in the female POV.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Maybe you're just not interested in the female POV.

I cited 4 I like, how many are needed?

 

[JackLuis]

http://img.wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dude_opinion-366x206.jpeg

But I can see your point.

 

[PayDay]

Maybe you're just not interested in the female POV.

Totally not the point of the thread. He's essentially ask how you particularly feel about the female writers, or who, or to make a general comment on the subject as a whole with opinion. There is jo condescension in this post, not really.

It's called perspective and he's sharing, and he was kinda fucking nice about it. Next time get some reading comprehension, or finish reading it before you respond, because you missed the conclusion and/or misunderstood it:

I assume the problem is with me but cant put my finger on my bias tho I know why I like the female writers I like....they set aside what I call the female soap opera mythology.

I swear I never thought I'd defend JBJ.

 

[NickiC]

I preferred female writers for a long time. I thought male writing was cold and had a lack of understanding of women. I did not see enough exploring a woman as a human being and not a surface object. But then I started to appreciate the male perspective and some get it right.

 

[quietlylooking]

Looking at the NYTIMES List this morning I dismissed all written by females. I don't read female writers, with a few exceptions: Camille Paglia, Florence King, Peggy Noonan, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. I tried Zora Neal Hurston but the book was so marker damaged it was impossible to decipher beneath all the dark underlining and notes. I own several female written noir novels but theyre equally lame tho classics. I assume the problem is with me but cant put my finger on my bias tho I know why I like the female writers I like....they set aside what I call the female soap opera mythology.

I find that many, maybe most of the books I read are by women. I do consciously seek out male writers just to achieve some balance from time to time. I have no problems finding books that I enjoy written by those possessing a Y chromosome, but they are not necessarily those on the NY Times best seller list.

I wonder which female authors you have tried and NOT liked? Are you looking for recommendations regarding other female authors to read?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I preferred female writers for a long time. I thought male writing was cold and had a lack of understanding of women. I did not see enough exploring a woman as a human being and not a surface object. But then I started to appreciate the male perspective and some get it right.

I don't know its possible to understand females, I don't, and I was raised in a home full of them. Go along to get along is my strategy.

 

[jenny_5]

I don't know its possible to understand females, I don't, and I was raised in a home full of them. Go along to get along is my strategy.

No worries. I am a female and I can't understand myself.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

No worries. I am a female and I can't understand myself.

I cope okay because I have a functional sense of what females want, recognize the signals, and put out. I don't feel anymore than I see infra-red light, so I cant get inside a woman's head. I wait for the red lights and the green lights and the flashing yellow beacons.

 

[jenny_5]

I cope okay because I have a functional sense of what females want, recognize the signals, and put out. I don't feel anymore than I see infra-red light, so I cant get inside a woman's head. I wait for the red lights and the green lights and the flashing yellow beacons.

Females are humans and humans want different things and that will be brought forth in their writing. If you want to get to know someone read their first book. It's probably all about them.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Females are humans and humans want different things and that will be brought forth in their writing. If you want to get to know someone read their first book. It's probably all about them.

Ha! Youre a better psychologist than me. I learned all the theories about motivation and personality but base my philosophy on what I know about animal behavior. Animals are pretty much the same, high to low on the evolutionary ladder. So I assume female humans are the same, and most are unless they have mental issues, but even mental issues don't affect them in every aspect of life.

 

[SamScribble]

There are some damn good female short story writers. Alice Munro, Katherine Mansfield - to name but two.

 

[SamScribble]

... and Flannery O'Connor, Margaret Attwood, Joyce Carol Oates ...

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

There are some damn good female short story writers. Alice Munro, Katherine Mansfield - to name but two.

Yawn.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

... and Flannery O'Connor, Margaret Attwood, Joyce Carol Oates ...

Zzzzzz. My heart belongs to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.

 

[sr71plt]

I'm sure that female authors are crushed--simply crushed, I tell you--that you don't want to read what they write.

 

[Rozalin_0123]

I get where you are coming from. A lot of women writers create weak female leads and it irritates me. Always a successful woman (financially) with a damsel in distress interior in need of a man. Then they go on to make even weaker males who are "bad boys with a heart" who make the damsel complete.

Yet people (sheeple) buy that crap up time after time.

On the other side of the coin, there are male authors who objectify their female characters, describing them to the finest detail then never going near as far with their male characters. Then they make equally weak "white knight" male characters.

Male or female, do authors have any imagination any more?

 

[sr71plt]

I do so love sweeping generalizations of all stripes.

Did learn, though, that another word for "people" is "sheeple."

 

[jomar]

Give Mo Hayder a read.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I'm sure that female authors are crushed--simply crushed, I tell you--that you don't want to read what they write.

This is a good depiction of the heart crushing effect I have on women.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgMVMaK1NnY