# Is your Kindle sexist too?: Do you tend to read authors of the your same gender? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 18, 2011, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177 "2011-03-18T18:00:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Lethal\_Babydoll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3be4f8/32.png) [@Lethal\_Babydoll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lethal_Babydoll)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177/41 "2011-03-20T20:52:41Z")
Just checked my Kindle. **Lindsay Davis** and\*\* Ruth Downie\*\* are my only chick lit. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Alex](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atomic_alex/32/175_2.png) [@Atomic\_Alex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Alex)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177/42 "2011-03-20T21:16:16Z")
> [@Lasciel](#): > > I read mostly men, because very few women write in my preferred genres (scifi and fantasy), and the ones who do often are writing romance crossovers, which I am in no way interested in reading. I’m in a similar position, most of the genres and topics I’m interested in _(science-fiction, military-history etc)_ are mostly written by males. Whether or not a book is written by a woman doesn’t come into consideration as to whether I’d read it or not but someone taking a quick look at my reading list might come to the wrong conclusions. I did have a strange discussion with a friend once where I was singing the praises of the movie Contact with Jodie Foster, he said he didn’t like it and after some roundabout questioning it turned out that he didn’t like it because the main character was female and he couldn’t relate to the movie for that reason. Was rather sad I thought, unable to make the conceptual and imaginative leap to put yourself in the shoes of the other half of the frigging species… ---
**Author:** ![giuseppgold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@giuseppgold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/giuseppgold)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177/43 "2011-03-20T22:14:57Z")
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**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2011, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177/44 "2011-03-20T23:52:19Z")
I seem to be gender-blind on my non-fiction (mostly small histories, the type that illustrates a certain time by following all the details of a crime, a commodity, or a profession), but the novels I read for entertainment are almost exclusively male-written. I seem to like to have a man tell me a story, but a quick look at my MP3 player shows that I like to have women sing to me. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177/45 "2011-03-22T18:41:13Z")
> [@Disposable Hero](#): > > I did have a strange discussion with a friend once where I was singing the praises of the movie Contact with Jodie Foster, he said he didn’t like it and after some roundabout questioning it turned out that he didn’t like it because the main character was female and he couldn’t relate to the movie for that reason. Was rather sad I thought, unable to make the conceptual and imaginative leap to put yourself in the shoes of the other half of the frigging species… As a male I can’t really imagine what it must be like to suffer hormonal mood swings, or the actuality of having a period every month. Or the effects of the menopause. Or of being pregnant. Or of giving birth. But the main understated, and IMO, never imagined difference is reacting in every day life as a person who is physically less able to use force in extremity against most of one half of humanity, and having been in this position since birth has a subtly different viewpoint of the world. Likewise with men, even if you’ve never had a fight in your life, or threatened or have been threatend verbally, there is always very deep down that this is not only a possibility but is the end result if your physical and verbal behaviour doesn’t have some restraint. You as a male may not even be overtly aware of this but I think that at subconscious level it influences your reactions and behaviour all day and every day. Obviously both of my points don’t apply to everyone of whichever sex, but my impression of people who believe that they are trapped in a body of the wrong gender tend to act like charicatures of the sex that they believe themselves to really belong to. I don’t believe that I’ve put any of my points particulary well, but I hope that you get the drift. ---
**Author:** ![Zjestika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/8edcca/32.png) [@Zjestika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zjestika)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177/46 "2011-03-22T20:56:50Z")
Since getting my Kindle in January the two authors I’ve consumed most have been Connie Willis and Diana Gabaldon. I am time-travelist. ---
**Author:** ![congodwarf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@congodwarf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/congodwarf)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177/47 "2011-03-22T23:26:45Z")
I don’t have a Kindle but my iPod is definitely suffering from gender confusion. I have about 40 audiobooks in there and they’re all by men: All the Discworld books Most of the Redwall books 1984 The Hitchhiker’s Guide trilogy If The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings are ever available unabridged on Audible, I’ll have those too. The books that I have in iTunes but not on the iPod are also male authors: a couple Stephen King and Dean Koontz The Lord of the Flies The complete works of Poe As for my book collection - other than the first 5 Nancy Drew books, all my books are by men. Even as a child and teen, I preferred male authors; King, Koontz, Saul, Pike, etc. I loved Dracula as a kid and didn’t much like Frankenstein. I loved Dickens and I absolutely detest Jane Austen. Now, I DO like some female authors and going totally against my character, the top two are romance authors. Jude Devereux and Nora Roberts. I like them mostly because their books don’t seem as annoying as stereotypical romance books. Jude Devereux in particular seems to like doing time travel. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-your-kindle-sexist-too-do-you-tend-to-read-authors-of-the-your-same-gender/575177.md?page=2)