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⌈ Secret Post #2673 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

It's not that men can't write quality female characters. It's that they probably won't. Not out of any conscious discussion, but because if you look at all the media aimed at young men, women are horribly represented. Fiction in general is male-oriented, and if it's female-oriented, it gets branded as Chick Lit or Chick Flicks and men are like "nope" and won't go near it, in general. Unless, of course, the woman is portrayed as sexy, or is a general masculine woman.

So from a young age men are taught to view women as sexual or badass--one is passive and to be admired, the other is active and to be related to, to some degree. You don't get much in-between.

Some men will be great at writing women. We have examples of that. It's not like they're incapable of relating to women. It's that most men are never asked to relate to women, whereas women are, by default, asked to relate to men. I can't think of any female authors who don't include any well-developed male characters in their writing, but I can count tons of male writers who don't include a single female character... and then those who only include one-dimensional female characters... and it gets a bit gross when you realize how few writers you know who genuinely take the time to write equally complex men and women. And even fewer still who give them equal screen time.

Look at the Bechdel Test; it's not a good test on individual films, but in a large scale, it shows an interesting trend. FIlms, in general, are unkind towards women. And, shocker, 90%+ of writers in Hollywood are men. So when someone argues for more women in the writing room, it's not saying that men are incapable of writing good female characters. It's that in practice, they just don't. And one way to solve this is probably to get more women in the writing room, to create more female characters, to subject men to said female characters, which will eventually come round to the point where men WILL easily create their own interesting and complex female characters.