Bill Dungsroman wrote:

The LADIES of caltrops (Zseni and Seme, AFAIK) are hardly cut squarely from the mold of the status quo.

I do! You're wrong. Everyone gets that particular party line, Zseni. Nobody's funneling girls into writing those types of stories. I would expect each and every Creative Writing teacher on the planet to be screaming inside Oh God won't any of you pretentious little beasts why something different for just fucking once? The results are what's interesting here, and I think boys get technical criticisms because their little action-oriented minds are dreaming up all sorts of (equally awful) stuff. What I'm sayin' is, to use an analogy, the boys are chomping at the bit to take off down the road and get utterly lost while the girls are mulling over which sweater to take, even though it's a trip to a tropical isle. And thus, they get predictable feedback from teachers based off those tendencies.

Although it jibes with the behaviors of women in their post-child days, it's unsettling that girls play that way. So, they play with toys that have "Happy" and "Pretty" and assorted (cute) fruits and vegetables in their names, yet drive them to inexorable mental anguish, while boys play with toys with modifiers like "Action" and "Power" and "Mighty" and use them to beat the shit of whatever villian is wack enough to step to them a solid 100% of the time?

No hot pleasureful dominating buttsex...

Yeah, well, junior high teachers are junior high teachers and not Nobel Laureates for a reason.

Well, what's funny to me is that girls are prone to writing their own little Shakespearian tragedies with an eye squarely for the third act, while boys will start theirs in the third act and have a fifth act that totally kicks the third act's ASS that utterly disowns it as a tragedy at all (it's only tragic if it's a horror story - but then, the hero of those is the villian, anyway).