[LMB] OT: Gender; new question

[Tzivia Adler]

> Give me a protagonist who (a) actually protags, (b) has a reasonable 
> degree
> of intelligence, and/or (c) I can sympathise with, and I'll happily 
> identify
> with or at least like reading about him or her.
>
> (The "and/or" thing is in that last sentence because of "Flowers for
> Algernon".  The main character in that doesn't really protag and is only
> intelligent for part of the story - but he certainly engages my sympathy.)
> Dorian.
> --

what she said!  what she said!
female p/r/o/t/  main characters who are mostly concerned with the hotness 
of the main male, and male characters who are mostly concerned with random 
hot females and/or racking up hte kill score, are pretty boring.

however, kick-ass female protagonists* give the reading experience an extra 
zing.  i don't want to be them - s/o/m/e most of hte things they do seem 
darn uncomfortable, adn far from the a/c and well-stocked refrigerator :) - 
but i am happy to read about them.

and flowers for algernon!  sniffle!  one of hte few *must read for school 
purposes* books that actually got re-read after school.  *sniffle*

ziviya

* what the heck is going on with anita blake, anyhow?  she's turning from 
adventuress, better than a man!  to better then any man in the series at 
'concerned with random hot (fe)males and/or racking up hte kill score