I know I probably shouldn’t be doing this, but the other day I checked the demographics of my Facebook fan club (If you haven’t joined, why not? It’s free, yo.). Although I wasn’t entirely surprised by the numbers, they were a bit startling. Apparently, I am most popular with the 25-34 male demographic. As a matter of fact, across all age groups men outnumber women 73% to 25%. Then I started thinking, besides my cheerleader post, I don’t remember the last comment I received from a female reader.

I don’t know why, but this bothers me.

(By the way, perhaps you noticed 73+25 = 0nly 98. I am not asking what the other 2% are. I’ll leave that between them and Facebook.)

Granted, I am a 25-34 year old male and most of my writing throughout the years has been on “guy” subjects like sports, music, and politics. I also don’t think it helps that my sense of humor is either extremely dry or utterly slapstick, neither of which I’ve noticed are the predominant sense of humor of the fairer sex. I also tend to be very random, which doesn’t help. From what I’ve noticed, most women prefer predictability, which leads to comfortability and connection. Most women want something they can relate to consistently, something they can identify with, and something, like Poison, they can believe in.

So besides following the advice of this article on marketing to women, is there anything I can do to make my writing more “female-friendly”?