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PyrexPizazz217 t1_j4r6r2w wrote

Reply to comment by Grace_Alcock in Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder

I love Gillian Flynn for the depth with which she writes complicated women. If anything, men who write thrillers treat women worse.

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Grace_Alcock t1_j4rmd57 wrote

And I hate Gillian Flynn’s novels. I’m a woman and don’t find her characters remotely relatable or even particularly interesting or realistic. They seem heavily stylized to me. So clearly it’s just a matter of taste. If OP doesn’t like this particular genre, it certainly isn’t representative of all female authors of characters. It’s a very specific genre.

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Hour_Squirrel_4914 t1_j4sufmt wrote

I agree. I haven't read the book, but the "cool girl" monologue in the movie that everyone raved about being so deep and relatable was totally cringe and unrelateable to me. I'm a woman too and I've never had those thoughts, felt that pressure, or put on that performance.

Media promoters and reviewers really have to stop painting with such broad brush strokes and insisting certain portrayals are "the female perspective". I think that's the source of a lot of this annoyance.

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