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Completely uncalled for bio-essentialism.
It begs the question: how do you even know the gender of an author? If we did the Pepsi challenge with a bunch of short stories and had people guess who wrote them, how accurate would those guesses even be?
There is probably something to literature being gendered. But claiming this is due to biology is hella weird.
This would seem to me incredibly difficult to prove or quantify in any meaningful way. Further complicated by the existence of editors.
There has to be market research in the publishing industry for stuff like that.
Presumably, but the publishing industry helps build the norms around what counts as "female literature" and "male literature" and how both are marketed/sold, so it would be pretty limited in terms of insight.
Sure and the outcome of this and other factors is gendered literature.
also make sure the participants have no idea the authors have different genders, or that the study is about genders, and also
I have known multiple people who refused to believe American Psycho was directed by a woman even though she's in the opening title credits
you can (usually) clock men and women writing around hornyness topics tbh (or rather the particular focus), but airport level-novels aren't end all be all of writing. faulkner could have been a woman or agatha christie a man for all i care
you think people can read?
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