Danielle Steel airs grievances on her blog

Danielle Steel has written 130 books and is by all accounts a success, but she still deals with condescension from men at dinner parties.

The 65-year-old Steel took to her blog to write a post, “Are you still a Brain Surgeon?� where she details her experiences with men who belittle her writing career, and those of her female entrepreneur friend.

According to Steel, the situation happens this way: She will run into a man that she hasn’t seen for awhile. He will immediately ask, “So, are you still writing?� And this question is where the author goes off.

She writes that it’s “an immediate put-down. It is a way of suggesting what I do is really not very important. Women NEVER ask me that question. But SOME men do.�

“Yes, I am STILL writing,� reports Steel, who published “First Sight,� a novel set against the backdrop of the fashion world last month, noting: “What this does is that it immediately puts my writing into the category as a hobby. As in, are you still taking piano lessons, doing macrame, have a parrot?�

Steel continues, “It’s my work, my job, how my family eats and went to college… I have written 130 books that are sold in 69 countries in 43 languages.�

She’s being modest: She is also one of the bestselling authors alive, with over 800 million books sold. But as she points out, “I never say to guys, ‘So are you still a lawyer? … A doctor? … A brain surgeon?’

She closes with some excellent romantic advice: “Ladies, watch out for the men who resent the kind of work you do and make nasty comments.�

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