Are women better writers than men?

As I surfing thorugh the forums of YWS, I see a lot of the pink female signs under avatars...and seem like not many blue male signs. That lead me to think...are women actually better writers than men? Or just that we have a lot of girls on YWS?

I think that women, by nature, are more inclined to write than most men (do correct me if I'm wrong). Teenage girls especially feel the need to capture their more difficult emotions on paper. (Hence all the girls on YWS).

However, men do not make any worse writers than women. From what I know of the male members of YWS, they are actually some of the best writers here!

So really, who knows? But it's my opinion that they're around equal.

I have to agree with Hawkie in that girls might be more inclined to write, which is why there are so many of them on YWS.

However, that doesn't make them inherently better writers. In fact, the question of whether one is a good writer or not is independent of gender. Just because you're a guy or a girl doesn't mean you'll be a good or bad writer. What means you'll be a good or bad writer is if you have a knowledge of grammar and punctuation and a desire to write a story. Gender has nothing to do with it.

Stephenie Meyer is your answer. Gender does not matter.

Stephanie Meyer was an okay writer, she just badly didn't know when to end it. Plus her ideas were suspiciously alike another writer's. Anyone read the Vampire Diaries? Mmm. Oh, and I'm pretty sure V.D came out first. I'm pretty sure people (myself included) only hate it because it's all anyone talks about. The "dedicated fans" who can only ever talk about it.

Honestly, I don't really care. A good book is a good book. When I pick one up I do not immediately look at if the writer is male or female and then set the book back down if I don't like what they are. I agree with Hawkie and Conrad. Gender has nothing to do with it. Also, this is only one of the many writers' websites. There may be more boys than girls on another one.

In writing, boys keep up with the girls

I think Nate's mentioned this before? We have more female members on YWS than we do male, but the male members tend to be more active.

Personally I don't think gender counts for much when it comes to writing talent. I think women have more of a tendency to write more emotionally driven things whereas most books I've read by men tend to be more action driven. In the end what you prefer comes down to a matter of taste though.

Here we go again...

Women do not tend to write more than men, and it's not the other way around either. Nor are women better writers than men; just as men are not better writers than women.

The problem is you're using a small sample size to come to your conclusion. So what if YWS has more female writers than male writers? That doesn't say anything except about YWS. It could very well be that YWS just happens to appeal to women more than men.

However, what I think it boils down to is that women are just more likely to share what they write. In the aggregate, women are more social than men. They tend to be more open, and thus more willing to share to begin with.

By the way, you should rethink your premise. The mere fact someone does not post their works online does not make them a bad writer. Emily Dickinson and Franz Kafka were both reclusive writers, but are recognized as literary geniuses.

The obvious answer is Pat Buchanan.

Snoink wrote:The obvious answer is Pat Buchanan.

Err, no. Pat's a guy, and obviously gender defines a person entirely.

But... Pat could be male or could be female... DUN DUN DUNNNNNN.

Snoink wrote:But... Pat could be male or could be female... DUN DUN DUNNNNNN.

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The plot thickens.

Patty Puchanan? xD

Seriously, it just depends on the writer themself and the definition of a "good writer".

Nate, you are very smart.

(I thought Pat was a girl too . . .)

There wasn't a single vote under men!

So I voted for it.


But to be honest, it probably doesn't matter which gender, what really matters is how awesome you write.

Naturally, I think woman are better 'story tellers,' not nessisarily writers. If you were to ask a woman how her day was, she would reply in a similar way to this:

"I went to the store to go buy a new pair a shoes after my old ones got shredded after I fell down a concrete staircase, met up with my friend Jenny, who I haven't seen in over three months. Did you hear she's broken up with Jared Mosley now? Afterwards I came back home to catch up on my favorite show, True Blood." See? Full of details.

Normally, if asked the same question a man would simply answer: "I went to the store, met up with a friend, and then came back home to watch tv." Though, if a man were to set his mind on writing something good, the differences between his work and of a woman's wouldn't be much different.