Bill Cypher on Nostr: For fiction, I end up reading more from my own gender. For non fiction, which for me ...
For fiction, I end up reading more from my own gender. For non fiction, which for me is usually about understanding and mastering psychology and mental states, it is much more balanced.
The biggest difference I know of comes from the way we play. Girls tend to play facing each other with each other being the focus of the play. Boys tend to play side by side with something external as the focus of the play. That comes through in the stories we like as adults.
2 examples off the top of my head.
Seveneves, every character is a woman for a large part of the very long book. The story is still the women together against an external challenge. Written by a man.
The Last of Us, TV series I never played the game and can't say. Some very female perspectives are shown, like excitement at finding a box of tampons. Mostly the series is about the main characters side by side against the zombies and against the government. There are a couple of episodes about characters connecting with each other, but that doesn't drive most of the action. It had more balance of both story types than most modern shows, and became extremely popular.
The biggest difference I know of comes from the way we play. Girls tend to play facing each other with each other being the focus of the play. Boys tend to play side by side with something external as the focus of the play. That comes through in the stories we like as adults.
2 examples off the top of my head.
Seveneves, every character is a woman for a large part of the very long book. The story is still the women together against an external challenge. Written by a man.
The Last of Us, TV series I never played the game and can't say. Some very female perspectives are shown, like excitement at finding a box of tampons. Mostly the series is about the main characters side by side against the zombies and against the government. There are a couple of episodes about characters connecting with each other, but that doesn't drive most of the action. It had more balance of both story types than most modern shows, and became extremely popular.