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.
Really, I think the authors just get horny when writing fiction sometimes. Which is fine like, once, but if there’s like, three horny passages, I’m like “ok, please give it a rest.”
It’s mostly a problem because some writers are just… bad. I’m reading romantasy, I expect some romance, I take issue when it’s written like not another teen movie and still takes itself seriously.
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.
Really, I think the authors just get horny when writing fiction sometimes. Which is fine like, once, but if there’s like, three horny passages, I’m like “ok, please give it a rest.”
It’s mostly a problem because some writers are just… bad. I’m reading romantasy, I expect some romance, I take issue when it’s written like not another teen movie and still takes itself seriously.