[ SECRET POST #7035 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #7035 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #1004.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I honestly think that a good 30% of people who complain that male authors can't write women just want to trot out the "she breasted boobily to the stairs, and titted downward". I'd respect their views so much more if I got the impression they'd actually read something by the authors they're complaining about.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder why people never point to "he muscled dominantly to the stairs, and smoldered downward" female authors as "not able to write men"? Is it because romance is accepted as "haha duh obvs fantasy" but pulp sci-fi, drama, action-adventure are at once power fantasies for men but also somehow not fantasy at the same time?

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Because there is a difference between the types of bad in the writing. Men in stuff written by women are unrealistic, but they're still human. Women in stuff written by men are barely human and often just objects.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Sure, and neither are things we'd call "great at writing men/women" I hope? If we're going with "x can't write y" then both things seem like examples of that. Objectification is a separate thing from that... and I don't think you'd need to look very far to find male characters who do nothing but smolder and sex?

Arguably, both xs aren't interested in writing ys though, I guess, cause fantasy.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I just don't think women write men with the same level of objectification that men write women. there is some there yes, but not remotely even close to the same level. Same as in real life really. Women can objectify men, sure, but we don't see the same level of treating men as just objects.

Re: Secrets you don't want to make...

[(Anonymous)]

That's a very limited view, as it reduces both men and women to your singular experience of each gender's behaviour. I would accept that a poorly written sexual object of a man written gy a woman is less likely to be accepted for publishing, but women are people too and are just as capable of reducing a fictional man to his abs and dick as men are of reducing a fictional woman to tits and ass.