War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
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Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.
Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.
Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more critically esteemed, the more respected. That can get frustrating.
I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.
I think printed fiction is what women read.
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