[ SECRET POST #3356 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3356 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

The difference between those situations is that there are male POV stories written by men all over the place; no one will ever assume things about or stereotype men based on your stories, because it's already a really commonplace thing in fiction & real life?

There really aren't any mainstream, recent stories about native people or their traditions around, so someone who isn't a part of it, or educated about it at all, going around writing fiction about them can give everyone the wrong ideas, create stereotypes and it's just a touchy situation in general.

Also, making up your own strawman and then writing a rebuttal to an argument no one here made doesn't really prove otherwise, haha.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series uses it. And Carrie Vaughn used a skinwalker in one of her Kitty novels. I think Faith Hunter does too, in the Jane Yellowrock books?

But I don't know if those are "mainstream" enough, though all three of those are NYT bestsellers.

Also, it's not really a "strawman" if we're talking about sticking to our own sandboxes. It speaks to the larger issue of not daring to stray from your niche. We're fantasy writers. Straying from our niches is a given. Adding a "thou shalt not" to that when no one thinks we're writing actual damn history is ridiculous.