A poll for the gents on reading

[netmouse]

Please only participate in this poll if you self-identify as having a male gender.
I know it's hard to remember what-all you've read recently, but please try.

UPDATE: for anthologies, please count them as the gender of the majority of the authors.
FURTHER UPDATE: Please don't eliminate books from reporting in this poll based on their topic or genre, then comment afterward to tell me how the stats would be different if you hadn't done that. The poll is not intended to be aimed only at fiction, or SF - the question at the end is an add-on. The goal of the poll is to survey the genders of the authors of ANY BOOKS you read in the past 2 months.


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Comments

Re: "Gender"

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

I know perfectly well what she means, and am willing to provide that information.

Re: "Gender"

[glenn-glazer.livejournal.com]

I understand what people mean when they say "It's the bomb." for something good. It revolts me, but I understand it. If someone used that phrase, I might well make a similar argument for discontinuing that particular usage of 'bomb'.

Re: "Gender"

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

If you understand it, the first requirement of communication is being fulfilled.

You're fighting for language change; but the bit you want to change is going to destroy a lot of useful distinctions on an issue people are currently very involved in. You need a VERY good reason for doing that -- and even then you shouldn't expect to be loved by the people who care about the distinctions you want to destroy.

Possibly it would be better if different terms had been chosen, letting us go back to what you describe as an older usage of "sex" (I haven't looked into your claims, and have no opinion about the history there). But at this point, there's going to be a lot of cost to some very politically active and some rather vulnerable people if you succeed (overlapping sets, not identical).