Comments on: Apparently I Write Like a Girl

By: Abitha

Abitha — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 02:36:22 +0000

@DensityDuck
Density Duck: It’s just the “I looked in my pants” genitalia prescribing gender thing at the very end. I don’t think it was meant to be a big deal.

I second the question of whether Bev is an uncommon name, a shortened name, or taken on for some other reason, mostly because I can’t think of any long dudenames with Bev.

Excellent article btw, even if it’s months old

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:16:14 +0000

So, yeah, I read through the whole post and comments and I can’t figure out where this “transfail” is supposed to be. Someone wanna help me out here?

By: John Wiswell

John Wiswell — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 04:42:41 +0000

Thank you for leaidng with a photo. Your references to it livened up the obvious problem with the second editor’s critique. I think the editor could be male or female. I can say men or more likely to make that sort of ignorant generalization about how all of them are supposed to think, but that’ll only cause anecdotes showing women can be just as ignorant.

I was left wondering what “Bev” was short for, or if you’d considered taking a pen name to avoid possible gender confusion. That’s pragmatic, though, and avoids the serious issue of gender stereotyping. It’s shameful on a lot of levels, not the least of which is that men are browbeaten into repressing feelings.

By: Aspirations : Bev Vincent

Aspirations : Bev Vincent — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:32:30 +0000

[...] garnered more comments than most of my essays for the site (though nothing near as much response as Apparently I Write Like a Girl – that one I expected would ring a few bells). This month’s essay doesn’t really [...]

By: Bev Vincent

Bev Vincent — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:52:16 +0000

I’ve never identified the editor or the project, and I strongly suspect the editor doesn’t even know about this essay, as the project was a little outside of the usual places I frequent. I’m hoping some day to find out who it is, though. I’d love to introduce myself to him/her.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:42:01 +0000

Hey Bev,

Ok I have to raise my hand here and say I couldn’t believe I was reading a story written by a man. The whole time the main character’s heart broke I sat there and said, only a woman would know that pain. I was totally floored when I found out that she was a he.

I think in society we dish out gender condusive roles to each other. Oh your a man so go run and fortune five hundred company, or your a woman, stay home and take care of the kids. I am one of the women who have stood up and said, hey everything you can do I can do better! I can honestly say, I love when men write mushy love stories or mush fiction of some type. A man who is in touch with his soul is worth his weight in gold.

But I have to sit here and wonder with all the comments and publicity this blog has generated, if the this so called “editor” is now trying to unwedge their foot from their mouth?

Keep up the good work, even if you are a guy LOL!!!!

Amanda!

By: Pat Brown

Pat Brown — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:37:48 +0000

This is both nauseating and scary. All my main characters are male. In the beginning I hid the fact that I was female, but I stopped once I was published and wanted to do appearances (drag just wouldn’t work for me for 2 obvious reasons) I’m currently working on a novel which is told from the POV of a 21 year old Latino male from a barrio. How many lines am I crossing with that one? It’s insane in this day and age that this editor can say those kinds of things and no one in at the publisher’s seems to be thinking this person is a stone cold bigot.

By: Anastasia Rabiyah

Anastasia Rabiyah — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 19:37:28 +0000

Don’t feel bad. I write like a man, and I’m a woman. I think it’s a sad popular misconception that men can’t be personal, introspective, and emotional. They are human and have feelings as well. Maybe some are better at hiding it than others. That’s all. Society in general forces them to close off those emotions. Thank God not all of them do.

*hugs*
Ana

By: kirabug’s idea files » Blog Archive » Ow, snore, ow, repeat. Plus, metric ton of video.

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:27:47 +0000

[...] ideaphile peri-renna, here’s a guy who, because of his name, got treated to a bit of gender prejudice. Both hilarious and horrifying, [...]

By: Arrow

Arrow — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 04:55:48 +0000

Thank you for posting this. Appalling. I don’t know whether to laugh or head-desk on your behalf.

I would love to read the story, of course, and hope it finds a worthy home. And that your next editor doesn’t require a zipper-check before accepting it. Sheesh.