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[novapsyche]

I want to encourage all of my friends to take my latest poll. It's been interesting to read all of the different discussions in various posts this week in my journal. Thanks to all of you for making this journal an active (I even want to say vivacious) place.

So, after you've taken the poll, please read further:

I did a bit of Google digging and found out that "B. Deutsch" is indeed a man, or at least that's what I assume from the person's name. B stands for Barry. The list was published online here at Expository Magazine in 2004 (although some versions of it were known online before then, because I saw a discussion of it dated to 2003).

Here is Mr. Deutsch's biography.

For those who thought that the author of the article was a woman, does your reading of the article change now that you know otherwise?

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For those who thought that the author of the article was a woman, does your reading of the article change now that you know otherwise?

In ways that do not change my conclusions. I look at it rather in the same way I look at Heinlein's Friday; I'm impressed that he nailed down the psychology that well. That said, with Heinlein, I have feminine backup (I know a few women who insist no male could get it that right, and thus Friday must have been ghostwritten), and with this, it could just be me looking through male eyes and seeing what I think is the correct psychology.

I could also be making assumptions because you, being female, posted it-- that you thus agreed with it, at least in part, and thus validated my view of the psychology of the writer as feminine in some essential way. But I'm reaching with that.

As I recall, there was one particular passage that said to me "this is a female author," rather than assuming it from the subject matter-- I'll have to go back and re-read to see if I can pick it out.

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Eh, now I can't find it...