Point of this blog
Long story short: I have an unfair bias against stories written by men. This is me working to change that.
In my mid-teenagehood I noticed that I was mostly reading books by female authors, thought it was funny how that kept happening, because I pick books by what section of the it's in, If the title catches my eye, and if I like cover art) and didn't think much more about it.
In my late teens/early twenties I noticed that I didnt like books by male writers. Gay, straight, cis, or trans, books by all kinds of men almost always fell short of what I thought good books should be. The fantasy books had interesting world building but lacked characters with depth. The comedy books were usually funny but could feel preachy sometimes. The romance novels were... just not ... I can't even explain how much they missed the point of what a romance novel is supposed to be. So, I gave up on reading books by men if I could avoid them and if I did read a book by a man I held them to a lower standard than books by women.
ENTER Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfus
I loved this book. It his every mark for me and because that didn't make sense to if a man wrote it I made up a conspiracy theory that it was actually written by a woman who for some reason couldn't publish under her own name so hired a guy to be "Patrick Rothfus" and that's the guy with his picture in the back of the book and shows up at cons. The reason the third book hasn't come out is that they had some kind of falling out over money, or maybe she died and "Patrick" decided to not come forward with the truth.
This insanity made me realize that I clearly had a problem with male writers. and I want to give them a fair shake.
I've read plenty of women authors I don't like the writing of but I don't blame my dislike on their gender.
(note: I'm not sure where nonbinary folks fall on this as one of my favorite authors is nonbinary but they came out when I was halfway through the series so I didn't know they were nonbinary when I started reading [also author bios at the back of books are kinda vauge gender-wise are i make assumptions based on pronouns] this is a frigging shit show. Do You See Why I Want to Fix This!!!















