/lit/ - Literature

It seems as though throughout modern history, reading fiction is a womanly activity. Of course there are more great classical writers that were male, but best-selling authors have historically been those with large female readership. Going into an English university lecture hall you will find it filled with mostly women and effeminate males. Harold Bloom once said that up to half of the great male writers were at least slightly homosexual.
So, with all that being sad, here is a question to the writers. Is writing a manly activity?