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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 9613640">I do think it is a mixture of both nature and nurture but people can also like what they like. I liked a lot of the romantic era writers when I was in high school and most of my favorite contemporary horror writers when I was coming of age in the 90s were women, and many of them were writing with a more romantic bent (it wasn't twilight in those days but Anne Rice really shaped a lot how people wrote 90s vampire stories so you have people like PN Elrod and Elaine Bergstrom putting out a lot of stuff).I don't think this is true. I think you can be a great writer and also have an audience in mind. Not everything needs to be done that way. There are books that are more universal and there are books that are less. It is okay for there to be books or movies catering more to women or men. There are whole genres of television in the US for example that are geared towards women (like true crime). Same with police procedurals. Within that genre you can have great television writers operating, nothing is keeping a great writer from writing, and writing well, in that genre. People sometimes dismiss that genre as not significant. But I've been making a point of reading a lot of scripts lately and there is a lot more to these shows than people realize</blockquote>