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
#RFP16 #MenWritingWomen #WomenWritingMen
#FWakeGenderRoles #MediaEcologyWakingUp
#FWakeTropes #FWakeFictionWriting
#RFP16 #MenWritingWomen #WomenWritingMen
#FWakeGenderRoles #MediaEcologyWakingUp
#FWakeTropes #FWakeFictionWriting
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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