walking-the-ashes
walking-the-ashes t1_j4qb2oy wrote
Reply to comment by nyet-marionetka in Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder
I never said that every female character ever written is stereotypical. I said among what I've read, which is a totally different thing. There must be some good female characters out there, but I personally haven't seen one, to my regret.
I also never said that woman can't write female characters. The fact is that among authors I'm familiar with, female included, there's a preference to write male characters.
walking-the-ashes t1_j4q4ct7 wrote
Reply to comment by nyet-marionetka in Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder
It's not what I've written. I think you're emotionally triggered and saw in my comment something that it doesn't have.
walking-the-ashes t1_j4q3ckb wrote
Reply to comment by nyet-marionetka in Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder
What exactly?
walking-the-ashes t1_j4q2ud8 wrote
Among all the books that I've read I can't hardly remember a single well written female character. They're mostly flat and utterly stereotypical. For this reason I tend to prefer books featuring only male characters, to make sure to avoid all this bullshit. I think historically there's still much more misunderstanding of female nature compared to male one. That's why male characters are subjectively more universal and flexible and make a better vessel for a wide range of writers' endeavors.
At the same time, some of the best books, in my opinion, were written by female authors. But still about male characters.
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walking-the-ashes t1_j4qicmc wrote
Reply to comment by nyet-marionetka in Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder
"A very sexist framework where women are some mysterious unknowable other" is exactly the reason behind the lack of good female characters. Both men and women have been largely influenced by this idea for thousands of years, so it's still widely present in books written by authors of both genders. Authors do write female characters as "too female" in a stereotypical way. And this is why I don't find them believable.