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more about #janesmiley more comments → OK_NiceLegs (formerly: thevickinator): OMG YOU GUYS! I WAS IN THAT JANE AUSTEN CLASS AT TU!! I SAT *RIGHT* NEXT TO HER. She was personal friends with my proff and pretty cool herself. And i... more » Mafalda para Presidente: Um, if you're a girl/woman and you are thinking, then you are thinking as what you are. There's no such thing as "thinking like a girl" or "like a bo... more » graciousplum: Hands down, one of the shittiest books I've ever been forced to read. more » MockMyWorld: I never felt compelled to read her stuff even as a book-crazy teenager, perhaps for the very reason that it was sold so hard as A Female Author Writin... more » allyzay: are 98% of these comments some kind of "this is how we post on jezebel" joke or something? more » Penny: Also, I should add that on my Twitter yesterday, I wrote "I am dying my hair, waxing, drinking a cocktail and watching I Love Lucy, there is officiall... more » Majrhoulihan: I thought she meant to say, "I never identified with girls." I don't know, that doesn't offend me. more » Penny: I don't don't necessarily like her statement about thinking like a "girl" but I would argue that because being a girl is a gender construct you don't ... more » Khrushchev: This is not to slight Ms. Hinton, whose quote here is I think taken a bit out of context, but we need some female young adult authors writing from a f... more » JessicaLovejoy: Laughing, riding, cornholing!: TAKE THIS S.E. HINTON! Unicorns and rainbows, two favorite things of girly girly girly girls! more » JenerationBoo: Well, I always thought Ponyboy was pretty fem- if you ask me. more » somedisaster: Am I reading too much into it to think that maybe what she means is that she didn't think within the limitations conventionally forced upon girls at t... more » bluebears: SIGH! well I'm out. more » cait98: I think girls think differently than guys. In general, we process language and spatial orientation differently, not better or worse but differently. F... more » PilgrimSoul: I think like a bonobo. That may be an insult to bonobos everywhere. more » -
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S.E. Hinton Dishes On Porn, Gender, & Matt Dillon
The Outsiders writer and former tomboy S.E. Hinton says, "I didn't think like a girl, so it's always been easier to write from a male point of view." More »

