@fozmeadows legit ? from ur great thread yesterday. As a man wanting to write good female characters, where do I start so as not to fall 1/
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Replying to @Galaxy_Sailor
There's no one way to do it right. Women aren't a hivemind & every story is different. But as a basic start, try for a plurality of women.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @Galaxy_Sailor
One of the biggest fails of the Exceptional Girl trope is mistaking gender for characterisation. There's only one woman, so it defines her.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @Galaxy_Sailor
As an exercise, try writing women as a majority. Figure out how to distinguish them from each other without leaning on how they are to men.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @Galaxy_Sailor
Try to imagine how those women act & feel when men aren't in the room. And if that's hard? It'll affect how hey are when men ARE there too.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
I have felt that if I wrote for no gender in mind, only what the desire of the individual as per situation, I simultaneously solved 1/
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Replying to @Galaxy_Sailor
I'd advise against writing for no gender (unless your character is agender, which is different) - gender is fundamental to self-perception.
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Replying to @fozmeadows @Galaxy_Sailor
You presumably wouldn't redact gender to write a man, so what you're unintentionally doing by that is defining woman as "man minus gender".
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Womanhood is its own identity, both individually and in a cultural context. The character doesn't need to muse on it, but it still matters.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
I need to copy and paste all of this in one doc so I can always come back to it.
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Replying to @Galaxy_Sailor
I think I might have to write a blog about writing female characters.
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