Technical Difficulties

I am not a writer so I can't speak at all to why male characters might be easier to write or anything like that. What I would like to say is that my favorite reading material is predominantly male central characters written by women. I don't believe this is because I was imprinted with more male characters in my youth. The Little House books were (and still are) favorites, and Tom Sawyer didn't do much for me at all. I believe that most women writers have a voice that I relate to but the characters I am most attracted to are male, at least in part because I am straight and therefore attracted to men. When I was in Jr. High S. E. Hinton was my favorite author. I read later she used her initials so as not to turn off male readers, but it never occurred to me that she was not a woman. I just always assumed S. E. Hinton was female from the first time I read her books. The Outsiders read as by a woman to me despite that fact that it was first person with a male narrator.

I guess I understand the concern and the feelings that there is something less feminist about writing books with male characters. But I read for entertainment first and foremost and I find your male characters extremely entertaining, so my gut response to talk about striving to write more female characters is "Oh, please don't!" Sorry...