Funny, I heard Kelley Eskridge read a Mars story at WisCon, and the effect was interesting: lots of people noticed the lack of gendered pronouns. But my friend Steve assumed that Mars was male, and I assumed that Mars was female. Could it be that many readers assume that the gender matches their own? I think we'd need a bigger sample than three people, though.
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Funny, I heard Kelley Eskridge read a Mars story at WisCon, and the effect was interesting: lots of people noticed the lack of gendered pronouns. But my friend Steve assumed that Mars was male, and I assumed that Mars was female. Could it be that many readers assume that the gender matches their own? I think we'd need a bigger sample than three people, though.