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aliquotiens t1_j4q73p0 wrote

Internalized misogyny, most likely.

Although it’s possible that the books you’ve tried written by/for/about women mostly aren’t your style. I dislike entire genres that often have girls and women as protagonists, like romance and most of the newer fluffy/fanfic style YA books.

Or you could just have encountered a lot of very poorly written women characters. That’s definitely a huge issue in literature. Though I find it’s most often male writers who struggle to write female character that are at all believable or fully developed.

I’m a woman (though I have autism and feel more non-binary/gender neutral than I do feminine) and I don’t find a lot of female characters ‘relatable’ per se - but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying plenty of fiction written by women, and books with female characters.

Some of my favorite fiction writers who are women: Ursula K LeGuin - Madeleine L’Engle - Margaret Atwood - Toni Morrison - Zadie Smith - Agatha Christie - Octavia Butler - Willa Cather - L.M. Montgomery - Dodie Smith

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yallscrazy t1_j4qomxk wrote

TIL im an Internalized misandrist because I read mostly books written by women with female characters

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aliquotiens t1_j4qsw7r wrote

Do you dislike all books you read written by male authors or with male main characters?

I have the same preference you do, based on what I’ve read the past year. But I don’t feel like I can’t enjoy or get immersed in books by male authors, and find main characters that aren’t women engaging.

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yallscrazy t1_j4qt63e wrote

Yeah, I hate them, I think it's because society told me to.

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pearofmyeye t1_j4qshgg wrote

You joke, but it’s possible. Maybe not an internalized misandrist, but you could have some bias against men or male characters for some reason. Are you yourself more feminine? Or maybe you don’t relate to male characters because you don’t relate to the men around you in real life either? Or you don’t find the type of man you are/men you like represented in books? Or… do you just prefer female characters for no particular reason?

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