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I would have been surprised if she was. Joscelin Verreuil also strikes me as being a projection of some facets of a man that a woman most notices, and not a man as we exist from the inside.
I have never known a man with a true female side, and I have never known a woman with a true male side, either as authors or in real life.
Which raises a question: were there high-quality collaborations in fiction, where a male writer contributes to the writing of male characters, and a female writer works on female ones? How did that work out?
To a significant extent David and Leigh Eddings.
Nauseating. Completely replacing every female character in his books would lose nothing of value. :)
I went back and read some David Eddings, which I remembered liking in early childhood, and was like, "Wow, look at all the adverbs". I think you have to try something like that with, I don't know, Neil Gaiman and Lois McMaster Bujold, before it becomes a good test of the theory.
Actually, now that I think on it, Bujold has many male characters and I've yet to notice a flaw in their masculinity, side-by-side with Cordelia Naismith, the Greatest Mom in the Multiverse. She's also written a gay male viewpoint character at length (Ethan of Athos) but I don't know how accurate that was.