Why is almost every book written by a woman, about women?

What men write about: philosophy, horror, science, history, politics, economics, crime, fantasy, et cetera.

What women write about: women.

>>24497034 (OP)
I've pointed this out with minorities both gay and ethnic as well

>>24497034 (OP)
I don't know except it's definitely my fault somehow

>>24497034 (OP)
Women write about home and family life. Especially during the 20th century and before.

>>24497100
can I get some recs?

I would like to try female authors, but I'll only consider suggestions that are serious

I'm not gonna read a book called "girl interrupted" or "woman traumatised" or "the lady who deserved more"

>>24497105
Willa Cather. most of her books do have female protagonists, it's true, but i don't consider that a mark agaisnt them. it may come as a surprise to some longtime 4chan posters, but half of all humans are women. even so, One of Ours and Death Comes For the Archbishop are two of her best and have male protags. here's a passage from the former:
>Their train is lying beside an arm of the sea that reaches far into the green shore. At the edge of the still water stand the hulls of four wooden ships, in the process of building. There is no town, there are no smoke-stacks—very few workmen. Piles of lumber lie about on the grass. A gasoline engine under a temporary shelter is operating a long crane that reaches down among the piles of boards and beams, lifts a load, silently and deliberately swings it over to one of the skeleton vessels, and lowers it somewhere into the body of the motionless thing. Along the sides of the clean hulls a few riveters are at work; they sit on suspended planks, lowering and raising themselves with pulleys, like house painters. Only by listening very closely can one hear the tap of their hammers. No orders are shouted, no thud of heavy machinery or scream of iron drills tears the air. These strange boats seem to be building themselves.
>Some of the men got out of the cars and ran along the tracks, asking each other how boats could be built off in the grass like this. Lieutenant Claude Wheeler stretched his legs upon the opposite seat and sat still at his window, looking down on this strange scene. Shipbuilding, he had supposed, meant noise and forges and engines and hosts of men. This was like a dream. Nothing but green meadows, soft grey water, a floating haze of mist a little rosy from the sinking sun, spectre-like seagulls, flying slowly, with the red glow tinging their wings—and those four hulls lying in their braces, facing the sea, deliberating by the sea.
>Claude knew nothing of ships or shipbuilding, but these craft did not seem to be nailed together,—they seemed all of a piece, like sculpture. They reminded him of the houses not made with hands; they were like simple and great thoughts, like purposes forming slowly here in the silence beside an unruffled arm of the Atlantic. He knew nothing about ships, but he didn't have to; the shape of those hulls—their strong, inevitable lines—told their story, WAS their story; told the whole adventure of man with the sea.
>Wooden ships! When great passions and great aspirations stirred a country, shapes like these formed along its shores to be the sheath of its valour. Nothing Claude had ever seen or heard or read or thought had made it all so clear as these untried wooden bottoms. They were the very impulse, they were the potential act, they were the "going over," the drawn arrow, the great unuttered cry, they were Fate, they were tomorrow!

>>24497105
Read everything Jane Austen wrote. She is all the cliches people warn about with women writers, but she is ALSO a genius, and a great understander of the human heart, so even when she writes about domestic affairs and interpersonal relationships among a small group of people, it feels titantic, because there is a study of human beings going on here.

Read Emma. Read Sense & Sensibility too. Pride & Prejudice is good, but overrated, and everybody reads it, so I encourage you to go off the beaten path a bit.

>>24497137
female protagonists are fine, just as good as male protagonists in fact

as long as they are written like humans, and not vessels for a female author to vent her frustations about not being treated like a disney princess by every man she's ever encountered

>>24497034 (OP)
>intention > events/actions

Because every novel every written or yet to be by a woman is a Spy Novel.

>>24497034 (OP)
The ones that read think of men as slightly less intelligent versions of themselves with complicated sexual needs. That doesnt leave you much to write about but it does explain their propensity towards smut fairly well. The heroic men they read about but dont seem to ever meet are usually the quiet/high honor types since they dont have to character develop what they don't know.

>>24497160
you won't find any of that in Cather's work. she very much romanticises the rustic life of the frontieer. have another excerpt, this from O Pioneers:
>When the road began to climb the first long swells of the Divide, Alexandra hummed an old Swedish hymn, and Emil wondered why his sister looked so happy. Her face was so radiant that he felt shy about asking her. For the first time, perhaps, since that land emerged from the waters of geologic ages, a human face was set toward it with love and yearning. It seemed beautiful to her, rich and strong and glorious. Her eyes drank in the breadth of it, until her tears blinded her. Then the Genius of the Divide, the great, free spirit which breathes across it, must have bent lower than it ever bent to a human will before. The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

they always need to insert themselves into spaces they did not contribute, it's always in reaction to what a man did

>>24497105
I don't think I can give you (good) recommendations. I tend to read artistic books that try elevate my mid-wit brain as well as mediocre literacy that reflects the time they were written. You can find GOATs like Jane Austen or Emily Brontë by googling alone.

I am currently reading Maria Jotunis Tottering House. It depicts what a marriage to a horrendous and abusive man is like, but the book itself is not misandrist. It helps you understand why it is bad outlook for a woman to be dependent on man for her daily bread. The husband is almost comically evil.

As a piece literature? Not your best choice. But definitely gives you insight what that kind life is really like and captivates the acquiescence and submission the main character is experiencing. It is not trauma dump.

>>24497273
>comically evil
e.g.?

>>24497105
>I'm not gonna read a book callled "woman traumatised"
you're missing out.

>>24497034 (OP)
>Why is almost every book written by a woman, about women?
Wrong, they are all about men who they want to be raped by.

>>24497034 (OP)
True, but among those who don't, there are outstanding writers. I'd suggest you give a try to Marguerite Yourcenar. Memoirs of Hadrian is by far one of the best 20th-century novel I have read. Wuthering Heights is not my cup of tea but also far from the usual women slop. Overall when I'm recommended a woman author, into the bin it goes.

>>24497034 (OP)
How is Frankenstein about women? Or Harry Potter? Or Ten Little Niggers?
Those were the first female authors of the top of my head, and all of them are about completely different subjects.
Mid-wits and simpletons write about themselves. You can see this plenty in low-quality male fiction as well.

>>24497354
Eero Markku works as journalist and is well regarded outside the household. He changes is opinions frequently to climb the social ladder and he never writes what he really thinks, if he truly believes in anything at all. He is consumed by insatiable hunger most of the time and he can find satisfaction in life only briefly. He wants to be loved by people, while believing those people are worthless.

Because of this hunger, he wants to feel love. Marital love to be exact. He marries Lea, who is dutiful and sweet woman. But the marriage makes him happy only for little while, and he starts to get frustrated. He feels confined and restricted. So he does not want to pay for Lea's food or clothing, and by giving her the bare minimum leads to her losing a ton of weight and using clothing that's barely holding together. But she gets pregante and things are better for a moment, though he gets a maid, which he fucks.After the birth of his son, in which he barely interested in, he starts beating Lea whenever the frustations builds up.

I do not think Eero has any redeeming qualities, but the other men depicted in the book are admirable, yet not hollow.

>>24497105
Karen Traviss

>>24497449
And as an afterthought, to illustrate the point of his (comically) evil nature.

>Their fist christmas together
>Eero does not want to waste any money or spend the holiday at all.
<This was writtern in the 1930s, so christmas was an important holiday.
>Lea still buys a piece of ham and two pastries for Eero to celebrate.
>Eero is displeased and still insist on the wastefulness of the holiday, but had bought a present for Lea.
>Eero then eats the ham and pastries alone.
>Lea opens the package.
>It is empty
>Eero laughs his ass off.

Simone Weil has never written about women as far as I know.

>>24497597
She was a sperg and female spergs have male thinking processes

>>24497657
this is true. as a male sperg I think everyone else thinks like a fag/woman.

>>24497137
Received My Antonia today. Don't know when I'll read it but it's here.

>>24497728
Perfectly written.Cather called it 'The best thing I've done'.
Cather illutrates a very unique type of loniless which is feeling alienated in your very own enviroment. In this novel, she barely romantices the rustic life, most of the characters here have miserable lives but they're never described in a melodramatic way, all are humans, all suffer and laugh and suffer again. One could argue she blends reality at some points. Hauntingly beautiful novel.
On a last note, if yu happen to have an edition with the introduction by Stephanie Vaughn, I would recommend to skip that introduction, it is of no value and no interest. My Ántonia holds by itself.

>>24497034 (OP)

>ask classmates what they're researching
>male classmates are all researching fascinating, unique, or at least ambitious things
>woman: "Misogyny in Rome"
>woman: "Misogyny and Hamlet"
>woman: "The intersection of misogyny and periods in Hamlet"
>woman: "Women"
>woman: "Opinions about women having sex in Weimar newspapers"
>woman: "Women in the work of Robert Musil"
>woman: "Vagina"
>woman: "I have a vagina"
>woman: "I'm a woman btw. Vagina here"
>woman: "Sex and periods in gender"
>woman: "Woman perceptions of woman, ,vagina, cooters breasts woman period I'm on my period clitorises in the work of the band Oingo Boingo and Hamlet's Perception of Clitoris Vagina Gender Studies"
>woman: "Queering Gender in Medieval Manuscripts: Your period or MY period?"
>woman: "Misogyny, Periods, and You: Ernst Cassirer on Substance, Function, and My Gay Love Affair with Gender Studies"
>woman: "Women in 'Woman's Work': Gendering Gender in the Social Sciences"
>woman: "Prostitution and Gender in Antebellum Calcutta"
>woman: "Gender"
>woman: "Sex and gender studies"
>woman: "Tampons, pads, and ironclads: Stonewall Jackson and Freebleeding"
>woman: "Einstein contra Bergson: Who rapes me more by having existed?"

>>24497791
I have a french edition with three pages of unsigned introduction before book 1, but it seems to be part of the novel.

>>24497856
It is, one should believe Cather could have written it, or not, and should remain in ambiguity.

have none of you dumbfucks read Frankenstein

>>24497034 (OP)
>OP likes men
Yeah, and?

>>24497411
is this image supposed to be bait for the average 4channer? Because its very reductive and diminishing to the books listed there, be it on the mans or womans side. i hope for you that it was posted in jest

>>24497034 (OP)
>>24497041
Most books by White male authors feature a White male protagonist close to their own age and culture
In general people write about what they know best, because if you set your novel among Australian Abos as a White man chances are you are going to make some gnarly mistakes
Though off the top of my head, there are some good ones that were written by people outside of that culture.
The Last Unicorn - Middle Eastern man writing about a White woman
Daniel Deronda -White woman writing about a Middle Eastern man
Oronoko- White woman writing about Africans

>>24497846
It's like asking male culture war youtubers to not complain about feminism. That's what lives in their head rent free and that's what gets them grifting points

>>24497034 (OP)
>Why is almost every book written by a woman, about women?
Why is almost every book written by a nigger, about niggers? Because the inferior mind is self-absorbed, too lazy to see beyond itself. Like Narcissus, it falls in love with its own image, and drowns there.

>>24498598
Isn't it healthy to focus on your own subjective experience? Dostoevsky was a depressed Russian man and focused on depressed Russian men, and we don't give him flack for it. What would you think of a brown woman who only wrote about little white boys?

>>24497034 (OP)
A Room on One's Own would argue its completely the opposite

>>24498610
you mean the book that is essentially just a verbose complaint about women not having enough things?

that's a perfect example

>>24498610
Don't you know that upper middle class women who wished they married aristocratic, instead of corporate drones, are in alignment with their plebian origins despite all the inane phanstasmagoria? Maya consuming them only their qlippoth shall remain.

>>24498610
Woolf simply mogs all the misogynists on this board. Their resolve wouldn't last a year under the intellectual segregation women faced backed then, yet she remained sensible and didactic. In death she still mogs mediocre men, what a woman.

>>24499950
> yet she remained sensible and didactic

she lived a life of pure degenerate hedonism and then killed herself...

>>24497034 (OP)
read Hannah Arendt?

>>24500109
She lost both her parents during her teenage years and was repeatedly raped from the age of six yet didn't hate men. If by degenerate hedonism you mean having same-sex relationships I'm sorry to inform you your right hand belongs to a man, and not the most grand of them I must assume.

>>24500109
>yet she remained sensible and didactic
I was talking about A Room Of One's Own btw

>>24497034 (OP)
Are you serious? The crime and fantasy genres have lots of women writing for them.

>>24497137
Nice extract. Thanks anon, you've sold me.

>>24497034 (OP)
>>24497041
>>24497231
>>24498598
>NOOOOOOO ART ABOUT THE SELF IS LE BAD!!! WE MUST CARE ABOUT OTHER PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRIES AND POLITICS AND SHIT WE NEVER EVEN EXPERIENCED!!! WE MUST WRITE WITH A MERELY EXTERNAL LENS OTHERWISE ART WILL BE LE DOOOOOOOMED!!
Of course they write about women they are women. Of course they write about niggers they are niggers. Would (you) want to write about the experencies of a young albanian man's struggles understanding mollusks? Art is a product of the self and attempting to fully dettach the self from one's own art is a outright stupid and retarded cause. Politics are a reflection of the self, economics are, fantasy is, horror is, philosophy is. You can't escape your own subjective lens. Men write about men too but since we are men we have a harder time noticing it. Did De Sade write about women from a unbiased male perspective? No it was shaped by him being a moid and his own subjective personal life. I don't want pseuodintellectual sloppa that negates the self, it fucking destroys a piece's artistic merit, just look at the attempts white men have done over the years to try and write african american characters.

>>24500378
Wait wrong picture oops

>>24497846
I keked hard.

>>24497105
>I'm not gonna read a book called "girl interrupted" or "woman traumatised" or "the lady who deserved more"

>>24497449
>>24497488
Honestly, I don't mind reading actual character studies like this. They cover what it is like to be in a relationship with a person with undiagnosed cluster B disorders and also financially dependent on them fairly accurately, which is a horrible part of the historical female experience

mein kampf, the life of an upper middle class woman in the first world, nobel prize winner

>>24497034 (OP)
if I wrote about something I would write about my country since there is not many books about my country, and also I feel more comfortable talking about it as opposed to about a shepperd in switzerland
I imagine it's the same with women authors
I've been told by female readers numerous times that women in books written by men are rarely realistic.

>>24497034 (OP)
>philosophy, horror, science, history, politics, economics, crime, fantasy, et cetera.
So basically, men

>>24497041
Ethnic especially. Women can at least write decent childrens' books, all books black people write are about being black.

>>24497105
The Joy of Cooking (go with either 1975 edition or 75th Edition) is a great book written by a woman and a good book if you don't know much about cooking.

>>24500126
did you sincerely just try to say that same sex relationships are tantamount to masturbating, or was that a joke?

I pray for the latter.

>>24497158
Every library is a great library that contains no volume by Jane Austen, even if it contains no other book.

WOMEN THINK DIFFERENTLY THAN MEN DO; MEN OBJECTIVIZE THINGS; WOMEN SUBJECTIVIZE THINGS: MEN, AND WOMEN, WRITE DIFFERENTLY ABOUT THE SAME THINGS.

>>24502687
HOMO CHOKMAH; MULIER BINAH

>>24502687
VIR CHOKMAH; MULIER VERO BINAH

probably because that isn't true

>>24497034 (OP)
Women live in their own world.

>>24497158
She's not a genius, the bar is just lower for women. Whatever insight she has on interpersonal relationships doesn't make up for the inanity of her subject matter.

>>24500480
when the sidenigga gets a ps3

>>24497034 (OP)
Atlas Shrugged is by a woman, but it's not about a woman, at least not primarily.

Ten Little Indians has female characters but ((IRC) isn't about them specifically.

Then again, you said "almost".

>>24497034 (OP)
You know the answer

>>24497846
>Einstein contra Bergson: Who rapes me more
I will always smirk at that pasta.

>>24497411
>Men's fiction: genre ficslop
>Women's fiction: literary fiction
Menbros, have we been revealed to be a bunch of slop-consooming plebeians
>>24497846
>"Prostitution and Gender in Antebellum Calcutta"
This got a chortle out of me.

>>24498605
>What would you think of a brown woman who only wrote about little white boys?
I'd regard her as a fellow shota peenoisseure.

>>24504728
I knew a black girl who only wrote fiction about White men. The liberal teacher tried to force her to write about black ones because she thought it was internalized racism and misogyny but in reality it was because she really liked obnoxious blond dudes in fiction like Malfoy and Naruto

Robin Hobb's Assassin novels are about a bastard boy.
CS Friedman's "Black Sun Rising" is about a male priest Damien Vryce.
OP's post is about his desire to get his anus gaped by a big black cock.

>>24500279
glad to hear. you've got a lot of great books ahead of you now. happy reading.

>>24504727
The classic genre fiction is far from slop, but women may be more likely to read philosophical or literary fiction because it focuses on the inner life and on family while men are drawn to excitement

>>24504806
If only that were true...
Unfortunately, I've seen too many SF/fantasy novels written by XX-chromosonekin to entertain that notion even as a joke.

>>24504813
Fat tumblr feminists who buy SF novels about how we will be genderless in the future do not represent the general public, they are just loud on the Internet. Statistically, women are more likely to read Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen and a lot of other literary works than men are.

Because, from their point of view, the entire world revolves around their pussy. They literally know nothing else. At least until they turn 40.

>>24502687
true

>>24497034 (OP)
>Women have never written about philosophy, horror, science, history, politics, economics, crime, fantasy, et cetera.
what a retarded thread

Almost every book by a European is about Europeans
Almost every book by a man is about men

You're simply a fish swimming in water so when something different happens, you focus on what's different from you.

>>24504820
>women are more likely to read Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen and a lot of other literary works than men are.
Women are more likely to read books than men, period.
Yesterday I went to a bookstore (the biggest one in my city, by the way) and the customers in there were 85% women and 15% men. The women were the ones going for all sorts of books from health/medicine textbooks and classic novels to fantasy and science fiction novels. On the other hand, men were mostly hanging around the general literature, general interest non-fiction works, and manga. This is a trend I've seen in bookstores in just about every single country I've travelled to, from Japan to Mexico, but most notably in English-speaking countries like America, the UK, and Ireland.