Oh, I'm all for speculating as long as we remain clear we're just doing that and theorizing.
My argument is that the biggest, if not simply a big factor in what is deciding what genders are being reviewed has more to do with the subgenre which the blogger focuses on. Sadly, the other side of the coin is that I haven't seen many male bloggers give UF much attention, which is why I try to focus on it as much as I can.
But the point still remains, that if females bloggers studied here are also reviewing the female dominated subgenres, then it skews the results. And I think it's a factor that matters, particularly if there's interest in figuring out the why X female writers are not being as reviewed as the male counterparts in other subgenres/genres (Epic fantasy, sci-fi, and the likes).
It might suggest that the biggest problem might lie elsewhere than the gender of the reviewers, but in what is being published for whatever reason that may be.
So yes, it's a distinction I'd like to look into if I get the time. Are the female bloggers that scored high in female author reviews did so because they did a lot of YA/UF/PNR reviews? And if the review ratio is consistent in their epic fantasy and sci-fi and how it compares then to male bloggers who focus solely in this area, and then to female bloggers who don't review those?
I think that's part of what Neth above is going about, when comparing apples to apples, and control variables.
Would you say that bloggers that review UF/PNR get more books sent to them by female authors than bloggers that don't? How does that affect the ratio of what is being reviewed regardless of gender of the reviewer?
As for the "tastes" aspect, I really don't look into what gender the author is when I pick the book. Coincidentally, the two books I've recommended the most the past two years being top reads of mine are female authors outside UF, Leona Wisoker and Kameron Hurley. I wasn't pointing out that there's a different in tastes between genders (though I think there's some), but merely books that I have picked up, be it by abundance and chance, have majorly been male authors when outside of UF.
Then we go to the time aspect. Time is limited and the amount of books one can read in a year is limited. UF and the likes are easy fast reads, so that also increases female author reviews when a blog focuses on it. So that's another factor to consider.
I think this are all good questions that might bring up a different context that is already illustrated here.
That said, the idea that male bloggers should review more female writers is a valid one, but I think the why this is, particularly if it's not true in other subgenres, it's important.
Re: So, I review plenty of Urban Fantasy
My argument is that the biggest, if not simply a big factor in what is deciding what genders are being reviewed has more to do with the subgenre which the blogger focuses on. Sadly, the other side of the coin is that I haven't seen many male bloggers give UF much attention, which is why I try to focus on it as much as I can.
But the point still remains, that if females bloggers studied here are also reviewing the female dominated subgenres, then it skews the results. And I think it's a factor that matters, particularly if there's interest in figuring out the why X female writers are not being as reviewed as the male counterparts in other subgenres/genres (Epic fantasy, sci-fi, and the likes).
It might suggest that the biggest problem might lie elsewhere than the gender of the reviewers, but in what is being published for whatever reason that may be.
So yes, it's a distinction I'd like to look into if I get the time. Are the female bloggers that scored high in female author reviews did so because they did a lot of YA/UF/PNR reviews? And if the review ratio is consistent in their epic fantasy and sci-fi and how it compares then to male bloggers who focus solely in this area, and then to female bloggers who don't review those?
I think that's part of what Neth above is going about, when comparing apples to apples, and control variables.
Would you say that bloggers that review UF/PNR get more books sent to them by female authors than bloggers that don't? How does that affect the ratio of what is being reviewed regardless of gender of the reviewer?
As for the "tastes" aspect, I really don't look into what gender the author is when I pick the book. Coincidentally, the two books I've recommended the most the past two years being top reads of mine are female authors outside UF, Leona Wisoker and Kameron Hurley. I wasn't pointing out that there's a different in tastes between genders (though I think there's some), but merely books that I have picked up, be it by abundance and chance, have majorly been male authors when outside of UF.
Then we go to the time aspect. Time is limited and the amount of books one can read in a year is limited. UF and the likes are easy fast reads, so that also increases female author reviews when a blog focuses on it. So that's another factor to consider.
I think this are all good questions that might bring up a different context that is already illustrated here.
That said, the idea that male bloggers should review more female writers is a valid one, but I think the why this is, particularly if it's not true in other subgenres, it's important.
-Bastard