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My objection was with the ability of a writer to do anything to make his or her characters more "realistically" of the opposite sex (or even of the same as the writer's). Of course there is the standard idea of male characters being interested in women's looks and bedding many women while female characters are supposed to be interested in character and wealth and loyalty - but such things seem like superficialities. And according to the standard cliches, Dagny is quite Masculine while there is something strange about Hank and Frisco's surrender to Galt. In any case, I've certainly never read a character that I would say - now that's an authentic bisexual!
As for being a good writer or being able to copy the style of another writer - that's another thing entirely. I haven't read Plath's prose (I do like some of her poetry) or Jong. Are Rice and Rand and Auel and Le Guin amnd Zimmer Bradley not good female writers?
Heinlein does spend quite a bit of time characterizing his personae in his better books, especially Stranger in a Strange Land, I Will Fear no Evil, and Time Enough for Love. Have you read these? And if so did you find them lacking?
Ted Keer
(Edited by Ted Keer on 8/04, 11:25pm)
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