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Bethany Lee Thompson

English Language - Media Text

02/02/15

“I’M NOT A FEMALE
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In society, we have always appeared to be divided into two separate groups, defined by our sex – Men
and Women
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As a general rule,
both genders can do any job
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More to the point, we have writers of both genders contributing to modern culture and society
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If times and gender roles are changing, we lovers of books and
aspiring authors are left questioning why it is that women’s writing isn’t as appreciated as a man’s
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She said “relationships are made of talk - and
talk is for girls and women”
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Both of the above could be reasons why we write differently to
men
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Some differences that I have come across include female writers using more dialogue between their characters
and well as being more descriptive in their lexical (word) choices, or vocabulary, as a whole
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Bethany Lee Thompson

English Language - Media Text

02/02/15

Makes sense – after all we do, supposedly, like a bit of a gossip, don’t we ladies? Again, this is thought to be
for the purpose of creating an emotional relationship; after all, as you know, we supposedly lack control of our
emotions
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This simply means that women use adjectives that are more descriptive then necessary like referring to brown as ‘beige’
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Remember the Slugs and the Snails from primary school? From being little boys, males are thought of as
‘rough and tumble’ trouble makers that like to fight
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The effect society has on
our gender (for example toys for girls being of a pink colour and boy’s toys of a blue colour) makes it so that
this is the ‘norm’ for males and therefore it’s no surprise that men would choose to include this in their
writing
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Perhaps writing defers by individual authors, not gender
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Although
Bronte uses more dialogue (speech), she discusses many graphic, violent topics and themes in her novel,
whereas Hardy writes about rape in a way that it is suggested but not actually bluntly written
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Writing should be based on your story and your talented style of writing not your gender
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If you have a story, publish it and
don’t worry about if your gender will affect it
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Don’t fret over your gender
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It
just depends on you
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Get a friend of a different gender to read through parts of your work and ask how
they would have written it – Get inspired
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We are equal in the playing field – Us
against publishers, not men against women
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Don’t give up
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Good luck and happy writing!

Bethany Lee Thompson

English Language - Media Text

02/02/15

Word Count: 865
Genre

Magazine article for woman’s writing magazine ‘Mslexia’ about women/gender and writing
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Casual
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Representation

Women, writers, female writer
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Mode

Written with aspects of speech like writings and images
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