I'm professional author. I'm also a woman. I have a male friend who was published at the same time as me. Guess who got all the attention?
As if that wasn't enough, just last year a guy innocently told me that "if you lose weight and make your hair look pretty, you'll sell more books!"
The worst part? He obviously had no idea how completely sexist that was. I wish I'd pointed it out at the time. As it was I just cut him off and made it clear that I wasn't interested.
My agent even said it might be a good idea if, for future books, I pretended to be a man. Worse, that was my own (half serious) suggestion and I think it would probably work! I'll have to wear a false moustache for the book signings...
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I'm professional author. I'm also a woman. I have a male friend who was published at the same time as me. Guess who got all the attention?
As if that wasn't enough, just last year a guy innocently told me that "if you lose weight and make your hair look pretty, you'll sell more books!"
The worst part? He obviously had no idea how completely sexist that was. I wish I'd pointed it out at the time. As it was I just cut him off and made it clear that I wasn't interested.
My agent even said it might be a good idea if, for future books, I pretended to be a man. Worse, that was my own (half serious) suggestion and I think it would probably work! I'll have to wear a false moustache for the book signings...