I meant to comment around when you posted this, but then I didn't have a) enough time and b) only had obvious things to say, like Buffy definitely not seen as something for guys... But then Buffy is a special case, I'd argue, you know, it's got layers.
I'm a fan of hard-boiled crime, too, and it would be interesting to know how many women actually read it - I think it's more popular that one would assume at first. I think it's the war novels that have a nearly exclusively male following.
And of course I agree that this whole idea that women like the shallow stuff is just plain wrong. Literary fiction, I believe, is read by far more women than men. Women read more than men, period.
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Date: 2011-04-15 06:40 pm (UTC)I meant to comment around when you posted this, but then I didn't have a) enough time and b) only had obvious things to say, like Buffy definitely not seen as something for guys... But then Buffy is a special case, I'd argue, you know, it's got layers.
I'm a fan of hard-boiled crime, too, and it would be interesting to know how many women actually read it - I think it's more popular that one would assume at first.
I think it's the war novels that have a nearly exclusively male following.
And of course I agree that this whole idea that women like the shallow stuff is just plain wrong. Literary fiction, I believe, is read by far more women than men. Women read more than men, period.