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LaunchTransient t1_j4seeg8 wrote

Reply to comment by Batwoman_2017 in Why don’t I, as a woman, like books with female protagonists? by out_cyder

>Both men and women writers can write women badly.

What is interesting is how few people mention when men are written badly. It does happen on a regular basis, but I think its because women often have the most glaring mischaracterizations in fiction that "badly written women" often takes the crown.

I have yet to encounter a book, however, where the women were written believably but the men were not.

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j4eo t1_j51khou wrote

>I have yet to encounter a book, however, where the women were written believably but the men were not.

You clearly don't read enough romance, haha. I love the genre but the male leads are poorly written far more often than the female leads are.

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LaunchTransient t1_j51udt9 wrote

Yeah, that'll probably be it. I have to admit I avoid the romance genre like the plague. It's like frosting on cakes - I don't mind a bit as part of a more balanced cake, but I don't want my cake to be mostly frosting.

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