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⌈ Secret Post #3455 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Is writing female friendships hard?

[(Anonymous)]

It is harder for male writers to write simply because men in general (yes, I know hashtag "not all men") seem to think there is something different in female friendships than male friendships. There isn't. Any conversation between two dudes could easily be transferred to two women with very little change. Male writers seem to think they have to sprinkle some sort of weird specific girl-cooties over female-to-female dialogue and they have no idea what that it is, except they think it must be special and different, so we either get stilted and unnatural dialogue or they just skip it entirely.

Re: Is writing female friendships hard?

[(Anonymous)]

This.

It is a self perpetuating cycle. Male writers think there must be something different about writing female characters, so they don't even try because they don't know what it is.

Re: Is writing female friendships hard?

[(Anonymous)]

This. I think it relates to this idea a lot of people (not just men though it's probably more conspicuous with men) have that women are basically aliens with thoughts and motivations that are't comparable to those of men. That's absurd, but it's a very deeply entrenched belief for a lot of people.

It doesn't help that a lot of men simply don't have platonic relationships with women like they do with other men. Some men can't even conceive that such a thing is possible. Women are either girlfriends and wives, or potential girlfriends and wives. If they could get past that and see that friendship is possible and hey, even fun... well, then they'd gain some insight into how "female friendships" work, i.e. that they're not that far removed from friendships between men.