It’s not untrue, though some also get things right. I can’t stop recommending children of time, and I love the way the author dealt with gender. It was a good read regardless, but imho he did a great job writing female characters.
Nah children of time is pretty bad actually, Adrian writes every female portid so hyper-sexy that I could barely read the series without thinking about how big their eyes would be and how seductively they would move their palps. Not to mention portid society is just full of dommy-mommies 🥵🥵🥵
Absolutely, some men are very good at writing about (and even from the perspective of) their female characters.
We call those men “good writers”.
What I think the pattern is that when you see stuff like that, it’s always a male writer doing it. And male editors, in the case of published works, letting it fly.
I agree that it’s mostly men doing it. I was more just looking to shoehorn in that book recommendation lol. I will say some female romantasy authors can kind of go the other way. It’s mostly a bad writer issue in both cases, and at least the female authors didn’t do it in a way that objectifies women for both a primarily male audience and the men in the story.
It’s not untrue, though some also get things right. I can’t stop recommending children of time, and I love the way the author dealt with gender. It was a good read regardless, but imho he did a great job writing female characters.
Nah children of time is pretty bad actually, Adrian writes every female portid so hyper-sexy that I could barely read the series without thinking about how big their eyes would be and how seductively they would move their palps. Not to mention portid society is just full of dommy-mommies 🥵🥵🥵
Absolutely, some men are very good at writing about (and even from the perspective of) their female characters.
We call those men “good writers”.
What I think the pattern is that when you see stuff like that, it’s always a male writer doing it. And male editors, in the case of published works, letting it fly.
I agree that it’s mostly men doing it. I was more just looking to shoehorn in that book recommendation lol. I will say some female romantasy authors can kind of go the other way. It’s mostly a bad writer issue in both cases, and at least the female authors didn’t do it in a way that objectifies women for both a primarily male audience and the men in the story.
This kind of gets at the issues I see most bad female authors run into: https://youtu.be/ejklu1OvWFs
They’re different pitfalls, but I’m also a getting a little sick of them too.
+1 for the Children of Time series! I loved those books!
Oh yes!