{"id":15786,"date":"2020-05-06T18:19:15","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T22:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=15786"},"modified":"2020-05-06T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T23:48:12","slug":"bias-in-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/15786","title":{"rendered":"Bias in Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coming as a completely surprise to almost no women, an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersummary.com\/strong-man-beautiful-woman\/\">analysis of almost 200 bestselling fiction books by SuperSummary<\/a> found that best-sellers were overwhelmingly written by men, and about men, and that those male authored, male-centric books frequently don&#8217;t past the <a href=\"https:\/\/bechdeltest.com\/\">Bechdel test<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, this shouldn&#8217;t be a shock to any reader who has been paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>But where the research got interesting was in the analysis of the language used to <em>describe<\/em> characters.<\/p>\n<p>Female characters were most often described with words like beautiful and pretty and married, while men were most often described with words like big and great and rich.<\/p>\n<p>Although they did a lot of research, the graphs are clear and concise, and it&#8217;s not a long read, so I highly recommend you browse the article.<\/p>\n<p>And then consider the characteristics of the books you&#8217;ve been reading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.supersummary.com\/strong-man-beautiful-woman\/\">Strong Man; Beautiful Woman: Exploring Gender Differences in Literature<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Coming as a completely surprise to almost no women, an analysis of almost 200 bestselling fiction books by SuperSummary found that best-sellers were overwhelmingly written by men, and about men, and that those male authored, male-centric books frequently don&#8217;t past the Bechdel test. As I said, this shouldn&#8217;t be a shock to any reader who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-46C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}