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A similarly blunt-but-informative measure is counting "he"s vs "she"s. In Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve, Ben Blatt found that among New York Times bestselle
by pgcj_poster 5y ago
A similarly blunt-but-informative measure is counting "he"s vs "she"s.
In Nabokov's Favorite Word is Mauve,
Ben Blatt found that among New York Times bestsellers,
"he" appears more often than "she" in 90% of those written by men
and two thirds of books written by women.
- esyir 5y agoUntil somewhat recently, he was used as both the gendered and the generic