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Reading classic books reminds me that there has always been a #menwritingwomen issue. If I used classic literature to tell me what women were like?

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Sometimes I wonder if these authors have ever talked to a flesh and blood woman. They certainly have never befriended one. #writers

As a #writer, I wanted a different approach. I get the accusation that #menwritingwomen is a thing, and that many male authors write women either as men with a woman's name, or as barely plausible sex bunnies bobbing about being "boobily boobing", as one beta-reader put it

Most of my MCs are female, and I try to stick to some basic rules

1. Boobs and skin are plot elements only where the woman is using them as tools. Joy used cleavage and makeup once to distract someone she was about to shoot

“Me Eyes Are Up Here,” Says Local Bar Wench To Omniscient Narrator #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #booksky💙📚 #fantasy #menwritingwomen #fakeheadlines

The sacred texts!
The original!

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Reading classic #SciFi is sometimes really freaking weird.

Oh here's an enlightened society looking past historical class structures. Also, here's a society where the women walk around naked with their super perky boobs because the boobs store the extra blood that make the women of this matriarchal society extra smart. The smart is stored in the tits. It's science.

(Ensign Flandry by Poul Anderson in this case)

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Also: please ‘enjoy’ some of the most egregious #menWritingWomen I’ve seen in a long while. (Sorry, no alt text, because a page is too many characters.) Mu Jianyun also likes to opine that men are scum whenever she feels no one has noticed her gender enough lately, sigh.

I hope she’s the murderer—that would be the only redeeming plot development for this crumminess.

Somebody's description of an example of "men writing women" syndrome reminded me of one of the most egregious and unhinged versions of that I'd ever read and now I have to reshare it with the world... it's like a combination of "she breasted boobily down the stairs" and a freudian screed

#writing #MenWritingWomen

cw: sexual language

@annewalk There’s a hashtag for #MenWritingWomen, but I think there needs to be a new one for #AIWritingWomen. xD

I am in such a book drought lately that I didn’t stop reading when “she had the tiniest waist I had ever seen.”

Nor did I stop when “she was in her 50’s, maybe 60, but had the energy of a much younger woman.”

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"She was not much more than 1.5 meters in height, and her breasts, though shapely, were small. Yet she did not seem unripe. The nipples were large and the areolae dark, though that might be the result of her brownish skin color."
Isaac Asimov, "Foundation and Earth"
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I'm not sure I can do this. This man was a pig and he was proud of it.
#MenWritingWomen #Asimov #SciFi

My interpretation of Cersei Lannister, for example, is far, far different from that of GRRM or D&D, because I refuse to base it solely on the text itself. I did a whole Twitter thread about that, and I'll recreate it here eventually. 5/5

https://twitter.com/autogynamelia/status/1397611468833447936

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I simply don't accept a cishet male author's statements about his female characters as "canon", especially when it comes to his female villains. I view it with the same type of skepticism with which I view a cishet man's account of his "crazy" ex-girlfriend. 4/5

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A cishet male author has biases shaped by the misogynistic patriarchal culture that birthed him, reared him, and privileged him, and I expect those biases to manifest in his writing, especially with his female characters, so I view his words about them skeptically. 3/5.

#socialmedia #tumblr #deathoftheauthor #fiction #menwritingwomen #patriarchy #misogyny

These days, I always treat a cishet male author writing female characters, especially female villains, as if he were an unreliable narrator speaking from a perspective that has been filtered through the lens of his own biases, a voice that is neither objective nor omniscient. 2/5

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In all seriousness, female characters written by cishet male authors are where I get the most Death-of-The-Authory in my consumption of fiction these days. 1/5

https://www.tumblr.com/reasoncourt/704109567109431296/i-love-all-the-people-saying-they-blame-male

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"Rose had that infinite female something that was always beautiful. The dying woman made wrinkles look sexy."

#MenWritingWomen, folks.

I just want to write a #DnD adventure just to use the phrase "he is a fading beauty" on a male charakter.
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