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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: latenite_streetlight on Jun 16, 2025, 09:09 PM

Title: androgynous writing
Post by: latenite_streetlight on Jun 16, 2025, 09:09 PM
Just started reading a theory book on Finnegans Wake, haven't tried reading the actual thing but anyways-

There's a part about prose/lyrical writing being 'feminine' i.e. Mollys flow at the end of Ulysses- then technical writing or scientific writing is masculine, also 'theory writing' itself. There's the mind/body distinction within language mirroring man/woman.

I have to write in a technical way in my job but I also write poetry, I'm also trans, do I feel gender euphoria from writing 'like a man' when I write in a dry and scientific way?

What if flow and lyricism were associated with male writing, and women wrote sharp, stagnant sentences that only explained the facts and had no dreams/intuition/feeling?

What would it look like to write androgynously? Who is an androgynous author? Kafka? The writing is dense but
also intuitive, like dreaming,
Title: Re: androgynous writing
Post by: maxadmin on Jun 19, 2025, 04:14 AM

Gertrude stein writes badly and also like a woman... maybe that is what you are looking for  ;D

I think Kafka is a good answer since in his writing it is sometimes hard to distinguish the gender of characters. Instead of thinking about writing androgynously as something stylistically in the middle of a spectrum, it could be interesting to look for writing that is devoid of all mention of gender. Not sure what a good example of that would be however