[ SECRET POST #4814 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4814 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

Gender may have nothing to do with talent, but it has a lot to do with whose work gets picked up and marketed, and with who gets pushback when their ideas need refining.

In terms of professionally published or produced work, there are so many mediocre men who just face fewer hurdles than women. There are so many men who have some talent but who aren't edited. There are so many men who, regardless of how talented they are in other areas, can't write women well. There are so many men who think sexual assault is crucial to the stories they tell. There are so many men who, in writing a series, prioritize flashy/exciting plot things happening over any fidelity to the characters and their journeys as people.

There are so many men out there telling the same story about a middle aged professor or writer having an affair with a much younger woman, there are so many men out there whose work alienates female audiences, and that has nothing to do with whether or not those men are good at telling those stories. Some of them will be very talented, some of them won't be.

But it's entirely valid for someone to be sick to death of men's stories when they've dominated literature and film and when they so frequently alienate non-male audiences. I'm not a woman, and I have plenty of male favorites, but on the whole... I trust things created by women more. I trust them to handle sensitive topics better, I trust them to be more consistent in characterization, and I trust them to show me interesting perspectives. And I trust women to be able to write men, because they grow up having to empathize with male leads in a way men don't always learn to do with women.