[ SECRET POST #3778 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3778 ⌋

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Comments

[illiadandoddity]

See, the reason I tend to prefer female authors is less about whether or not the writing is sexist, and more about whether or not the female characters are being described in that uncomfortably sexualized way that male authors so frequently do. I remember reading this one book series in which the female protagonist kept describing using her magical powers "like an orgasm" (and it wasn't like it was some kind of sex magic, she was thinking hard to control the weather), among a lot of other things. I felt like the male author was doinG literally everything to telegraph "THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF WOMAN I WANT TO FUCK, AND SHE WOULD WANT TO FUCK YOU, TOO, MY MALE READERS!" It made me so uncomfortable, I stopped partway through book 2 and never picked it up again, even though the story was interesting.

I'm not saying that kind of thing would never happen with a female author, but it happens with a LOT of the male ones.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I have the same kind of distaste when women's power is only depicted as centered in their sexuality.

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[(Anonymous)]

Yuck. I take your point.

Re: OP

[illiadandoddity]

Female authors can definitely be sexist, but at least their female characters are unlikely to come across as the author's wank fantasy.