My grand summation is that a writer can't write what they don't know. I don't mean haven't experienced. I mean literally don't know exist. (I'm not talking about Ray Bradbury predicting headphones by the way.) Like if someone who has never stepped foot in a physics classroom and couldn't add two and two tried to write a thesis on gravity it would obviously be nonsense beyond basic observations like "shit goes to the floor". People are not the same, but similar in the sense that a lot of writers don't have an intense deep understanding of every person, and so they have an image of people as they see them, and then they write them into a story so you end up with a creation a few layers removed from reality. So when you compare that to reality itself you will (probably, probably, PROBABLY) have to twist and stretch and reach in order to get it to line up with anything as concrete as the modern definition will be. It's not reality. It exists on it's own terms.


(I was only referring to that person's last paragraph, which made no sense to me.)