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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-04-18 02:44 pm

[ SECRET POST #3027 ]


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Re: Hey, guys who post threads asking how to write from a female mindset?

(Anonymous) 2015-04-19 03:30 am (UTC)(link)
I roll my eyes when guys do this. On the one hand, they're trying (but whoa boy do they seem to want ALL THE BROWNIE POINTS for even deigning to attempt it, like it's climbing Mt. Everest) but on the other hand, it's hard to explain to someone that their starting place is wrong. They're already viewing the challenge of writing a female character like it's a challenge that's completely alien from writing any other character well. It still stems from the mindset that women are somehow completely different from men on the inside and there's no way a man can have any insight into how a woman thinks.

It's not that I don't want to help these guys out, it's just that it's so exhausting to talk with someone who doesn't view you as a fellow human being right from the get go. Just by the virtue of being female, I'm even more alien than say, being a 16th century Persian assassin, or a mercenary space pirate or a Templar Knight. That's fucked up.