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>Why are they so awful in grasping the subtleties of femininity and writing every female the same way as if all women want the same thing, the same man? Is it some incel energy rooted deep in their genetic code?
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I'll tell the truth.
When I tarted writing, I admit it. One of my weaknesses, were female characters. A cardboard cutout female, a damsel in distress. I tried to fight that? I got a sill wonder woman character. I spent lot of years, learning how to write women characters that were more complex and came off better.
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Also, the cardboard female character, and the wonder woman trope, and the damsel in distress? If you work on it, these can go away. Mine did. But, these are what you get, without a lot of effort and time put in.
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men are not "incapable" of writing women. IN fact? a certain percentage of romances, popular ones? Are known to be males with female pen names.
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now. fair is fair. women? Mostly write MEN using different but equally silly cardboard tropes. Men objectify women? RTell me all about it sister. Men with 16-packs and look ike professional bodybuildres... all over the covers of girl books. men do it? Its objectification and isogyny. WOmen do it, though... its empowering. What it is? Is bullshit.
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women, cant write men well... without much the same work and understanding. women authored male characters? have their own cardboard tropes.
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its a 2 way street, sister. At least own that shit.

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