men are more likely to be expected to soldier through difficulties unemotionally, and this puts a bigger strain on them.
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Srsly. I guess it depends somewhat on what sort of 'difficulties' you're referring to and what sort of emotions you're referring to. I'm tempted to refer you to the only good Family Guy episode - the one where Lois flips her shit and climbs the Christmas tree. Women - mothers especially - are frequently expected to soldier through difficulties and to not express anger or other strong negative emotions.
I feel that reluctance to hurt female characters may stem from a culture of misogynistic 'chivalry' - the culture that says both 'don't hit girls' and 'girls aren't allowed to hit back'. The differences between men and women are much, much smaller than the differences in the social expectations of men and the social expectations of women. I tend to go with 'nonexistent' because I am tired of being told that I can't possibly exist because I identify with women's expectations not at fucking all.
Broader range is definitely true - there's some female characters I love but many I hate because they're not written as if they were people; their role is 'woman' rather than 'person' and that is just boring and artificial as all fuck. Most of my OCs and almost all my RP characters are female (okay, a few of them are genderqueer). Most of the characters I write about in fanfics are cisgendered men.
Spoiler, the character in my icon is a guy. A dead guy who's possessing a female body because it was the first one he found, so I think of him as a trans guy who presents as female because it's convenient. This may be a translation error but I don't care - the English version definitely states that Minette is really a dude.
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[citation needed]
Srsly. I guess it depends somewhat on what sort of 'difficulties' you're referring to and what sort of emotions you're referring to. I'm tempted to refer you to the only good Family Guy episode - the one where Lois flips her shit and climbs the Christmas tree. Women - mothers especially - are frequently expected to soldier through difficulties and to not express anger or other strong negative emotions.
I feel that reluctance to hurt female characters may stem from a culture of misogynistic 'chivalry' - the culture that says both 'don't hit girls' and 'girls aren't allowed to hit back'. The differences between men and women are much, much smaller than the differences in the social expectations of men and the social expectations of women. I tend to go with 'nonexistent' because I am tired of being told that I can't possibly exist because I identify with women's expectations not at fucking all.
Broader range is definitely true - there's some female characters I love but many I hate because they're not written as if they were people; their role is 'woman' rather than 'person' and that is just boring and artificial as all fuck. Most of my OCs and almost all my RP characters are female (okay, a few of them are genderqueer). Most of the characters I write about in fanfics are cisgendered men.
Spoiler, the character in my icon is a guy. A dead guy who's possessing a female body because it was the first one he found, so I think of him as a trans guy who presents as female because it's convenient. This may be a translation error but I don't care - the English version definitely states that Minette is really a dude.