If we can't have comedy books written about aspects of womanhood without going into a panic attack about it, then we haven't got very far at being equal.
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I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
Comedy is just one of the many professions that women are taking over.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
I think it is a bit harder for women starting in comedy.
I've never had prejudice against me because of being a woman in comedy, I've never felt any sort of unfairness because of that - but I do think it is naive to think that it doesn't exist.
It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.
Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.
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