It's my book you dunce! You said you read and liked it!
I think this is half right and half wrong.
I think people in general love labels and always have, identitarianist desires run deep.
But the internet (and before that, mass media) led to a buncha types/labels/stereotypes becoming common knowledge. Now everyone knows the types and everyone wants to weasel out of them; cue PoMo irony culture.
So today we have this simultaneous self-identification and weaseling out of identification happening at rapid pace.
It might be a myth with a core of truth, which is that some male writers (by no means all or even most of them) write female characters badly in an easily parodied (especially in an overly or unnecessarily sexualized) way - I'm sure we've all seen the "she breasted boobily" meme, right?Why do women seem to be better at writing men than men are at writing women, or is this just a myth we've come to accept?
It might be a myth with a core of truth, which is that some male writers (by no means all or even most of them) write female characters badly in an easily parodied way - I'm sure we've all seen the "she breasted boobily" meme, right?
Which isn't to say all women writers intuitively understand the male psyche, of course.
Not clever, cultured men like us, anyway.I'm sure there are plenty of women writing crap romance novels and YA who can't write men, but I doubt men really come into contact with it.
Probably in part because women have historically had to adapt to men more than vice-versa, which leads to psychologizing.Why do women seem to be better at writing men than men are at writing women, or is this just a myth we've come to accept?
"no particular reason"I've definitely read some terrible descriptions of women in people like PKD. You get stuff like the author making a point of describing a woman's nipples for no particular reason.
"no particular reason"
Sleepy Joe!Say what you will about Trump, his insults are equal-opportunity.
His epithets are one of the great art forms of our age. "Low energy Jeb" is up there with Homer's "gray-eyed Athena" in the all-time list.
Shockingly, everyone basically seems in agreementCan someone summarise the sides here so I dont have to read the thread?