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- From: cdfk@otter.hpl.hp.com (Caroline Knight)
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 09:01:14 GMT
- Subject: Re: Point of view (was Genre)
- Message-ID: <87940021@otter.hpl.hp.com>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK.
- Path: sparky!uunet!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!mips!sdd.hp.com!hpscdc!hplextra!otter.hpl.hp.com!otter!cdfk
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- References: <1992Jul20.174401.8505@thinkage.on.ca>
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- In misc.writing, eoghanni@castle.ed.ac.uk (Eoghann Irving) writes:
-
- > I am pretty sure that I do it beacsue I am male, I make very few
- > assumptions about a story before I have read it. However, my reasons
- > alone don't really say very much. So, do women assume a male viewpoint
- > as well, or not? Perhaps we could have a poll of some sort.
-
- I assume male POV unless I have reason to think otherwise, eg writer has
- only written (to my knowledge) female POV before. I am aware that I
- type cast the author this way but also assume that they are good enough
- writers to clear any chance of misapprehension away asap if they are
- doing a different POV for a change.
-
- Incidentally this assumption of femaleness or maleness is something that
- happens alot on the net - as one can chose any sig one wants (on some
- systems) and one cannot always tell from a name in any case...
-
-
- Caroline
-