Quote:It's also ridiculous to assert that men are more likely to seek out obscure writings. There's whole college departmetns of women seeking out obscure writings--of female authors, who have historically been more likely to be forgotten (Aphra Behn anyone?) than their male peers--including those who wrote weird fiction and science fiction.
I thought it would be obvious to anyone that, A. my comment was merely speculative ("assertions" do not usually begin with the word "perhaps", or include the word "seem", as mine does), and B., that I was referring to the ordinary reader, not to academics who earn their living by scraping the literary barrel.
Quote:if it weren't for Genevive Sully, there'd be no Smith fiction at all.
I'm glad to see that at least we men here do not have a monopoly on making ridiculous statements. ;-)