Reading and Writing as Gender Identity Development

I agree with Moje when she says that females at an early age are far more likely to read books about females and the same with males. I feel that early on in development this is very prominent in reading choices since the reader will be able to relate better with the narrator and because of social contexts.

I feel that as time proceeds, it is very easy for these limitations to break with more reading. Once the later years of high school hit for me I started reading more and I started with male novels about promiscuity and drinking; anything that seemed cool to me at the time. As my reading and my tastes evolved I started reading novels with female characters or males that were much more compassionate and found these to be more fulfilling. The Hunger Games and Go Ask Alice are two of my favorite female perspective books.  Now, I don’t think twice about a novel that is written from the female perspective; if it is good I will read it.

As me that 6 years ago and I would prove to be much more misogynistic.