I was sorting out my books and it got me thinking, why is that so many of the classics that lead us through the dilemmas, challenges and consequences of life are from a female perspective, even when written by men?

Culture: Because wimen were perceived as complex and full of doubts/dillemmas, while the male was perceived as simple and straightforward but at least he knew what to do :p


Let's just say that the male motives are too much down to earth to write a classic novell:

- eat
- drink
- sex
Anytime/Anyplace/Anywhere

While females share those 3 motives of life as well, but NOT Anytime, NOT Anyplace, NOT anywhere, they are much more picky about it. Which makes good novell stuff.....

After all the females MUST be picky about which male DNA would be best suited for offspring, but the male strategy of succesfull reproduction is to have as much female carriers as possible....

Ok, not all males, there are some young promising scientists here on the board that think that sex is yuckie and all their primal energy (that must find a way out) is focused on computer games and building a homemade timemachine.....


Ok ladies, feel free to step in and correct, after all I am just a simple straightforward male with a narrow perspective;)

which classics were you thinking of, Mac? I can think of a number of them that deal with dillemmas, challenges and consequences of life that were written in the male perspective. Crime and Punishment, Most of Shakespeare's oevre, Chaucer's entire work (being the anti-feminist that I think he was) and such...

what books brought this thought nugget to mind? just curious.


Notice of Anti-anti-feminism Disclaimer:

I am not against works written from the female perspective, female authors, female characters, and heaven knows, definately not females themselves. Have to be crazy for that...;)

You cant say this is not my problem but .. you can say

"i dont have the real answer to this que":eek:

I think women are supposed to be more in tune with their emotions and crap. Thus better able to yammer about them interminably, as is the case with the Gothic and Sentimental novels.

But then, a lot of the classics are written from a male viewpoint. It seems almost like the whole writing from a female perspective thing is more common from the last 200 or so years...

That and there is the whole "Woman in distress" thing... Nothing like beautiful women (I have yet to read a book where the leading female character WASN'T hot...) in tough situations. It grips male readers because we want to save them.