[OC] I looked at the distribution of third-person pronouns by gender in 15 classic novels, and within the 18 episodes of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Posted by Journalist_Asleep
nrith on April 13, 2026 12:36 am I can’t recall a single female character in Moby-Dick other than the proprietor of the Try-Pots. They refer to the ship as “she,” and the famous “that she blows” quote refers to the whale, but those seem like nautical conventions.
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I can’t recall a single female character in Moby-Dick other than the proprietor of the Try-Pots. They refer to the ship as “she,” and the famous “that she blows” quote refers to the whale, but those seem like nautical conventions.
Women don’t work on whaling boats… til