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11 questions I wish male fantasy authors would ask themselves before publishing. : Fantasy

https://old.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/vhpsmy/11_questions_i_wish_male_fantasy_authors_would?sort=controversial

I’ve been a diehard fantasy fan all my life, but I am so constantly frustrated by series like WoT and Night Angel that simplify women or use them to make men look cooler. I wrote these a while ago and thought I’d share. Would love additions!

The list is long and it's mostly just foid nonsense, check out the post itself!

If I ever write a story I'm absolutely going to describe the size of a woman's breasts, her shapely thighs and tight buttocks, right beside my description of the curvature, girth and size of a man's bulge, his stately, broad shoulders and his own right buttocks. How every swing of his sword sends his member swinging almost in parallel, every step jiggling his butt, the way his muscle glisten and gleam with sweat, and how the sweat itself runs in rivulets between his chiselled abs.

:#coomer:

I’ve completely stopped reading fantasy by men for a while and it really has seemed to decrease my frustrations with the genre, including but not limited to all the things you mention. Plus my TBR has never been longer than it is right now once I completely stopped trying to have interest in all the β€œbig names” that seem to be mostly men πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

Edit: If you’re really going to comment telling me I’m wrong for choosing to read only women, consider two things 1) there may be very valid reasons - systemic issues - behind a woman choosing to pause reading men, some of which are outlined in this very post. Take a second and listen/learn what those issues might be. and 2) I’ve already read plenty of men. Most of my education was reading men. Time to focus on other voices/experiences/persectives.

I've got systemic reasons, okay?!?

One in four women have not been r*ped...That is a false statement, at least not according to the commonly known/accepted definition of r*pe.

A lot of these points are great but some feel redundant as a female author will also write her book according to her perspective/worldview. That being said a great author should be able to give all their characters depth regardless of gender/race. The better an author is, the less one dimensional the characters will be. It even goes for male authors who write all their characters as buff men with superhuman like strength. What about all us skinny/short guys or the dudes who are emotional wrecks etc? Men also want to feel like characters reflect themselves as real people or as the person who they want to be (given the condition that the character in question struggled to actually get there).

Argument about r*pe statistics

Always weird when you have these posts telling writers what they can and can not do.

If it's not for you, you can just not read it? There are plenty of books that use characterizations and tropes that I don't like so i just avoid them.

What if these "characterizations and tropes" are industry-wide problems of misogyny and poor representation? And calm down, OP is literally just pointing out sexist tropes and asking writers to be a little more thoughtful, not forcibly stopping anyone from writing their shitty misogynistic book.

industry-wide problems I can manufacture an industry-wide problem too

People buy books = more books like it are written. What books have you been reading that is misogynistic? must be alot

This causes an absolute sneed spree as a janny has to come in and scold the naughty poster :marseyjanny:

Please drop it, both you. Warheadjk please take a break from this post, thank you.

:#marseyjanny2:

My work here is done

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>One in four women has been r*ped

I love these statistics because you can't argue with them without sounding like you're defending r*pe. We need to start ramping it up to 1 in 3 or 50% and see how many people will just go along with it to avoid conflict.

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1 in 4 women get r*ped...

>Follow with

Actually, it's 1 in 3 now... Yea... You're really lucky you made it here alive.

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in the united states 400,000 β€œsexual assaults” happen a year and most r*pes are in prison. Where do foids get there statistics

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actually those are old stats. These days 1 in 3 women has suffered sexual assault or r*pe in America.

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by doing the worst thing you can do and ask directly, including giving a bunch of thinking time and angelifying victimhood

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Better shut up before i make it 1 in 2:marseydisconcerting#:

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Thats the same spirit as demanding increased minimum wage! 15 not enough, get them to agree to 20, 25, 30, eventually theres a point where they'll nope out and then you can pester their logic for it

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Every woman has been r*ped. If you haven't been r*ped, you're not a woman.

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Finally an answer to β€œwhat is a woman?”

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You are a woman if and only if you've been r*ped.

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It's actually 27 in 4 women are r*ped, chud. Don't ask questions.

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This is what happened with the wage gap and now most people who care know it’s BS

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Can't you just #BelieveWomen when you're told to?

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Is it really?

Why not just say ''no they weren't you fricking r-slur'', doesnt sound like defending r*pe

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For reasonable people, sure. But we currently live in the dystopia where social media has trained people to have hysterical overreactions to any sort of facts and logic that hurt their feelings or go against their preconceived views. So if you say something that sounds like even vague skepticism of a feminist's data set, you get accused of being a r*pe apologist, and then they try to stir up a social media lynch mob agianst you.

Don't worry, once we start hurting the terminally online garbage who display these kinds of hysterical emotional overreactions, they'll very quickly learn that going into histrionics whenever reality doesn't match their wishful thinking is absolutely not acceptable. The reason these "people" never engage their critical thinking skills is because nobody ever taught them that it was necessary to do so for their own survival, so they have no skin in the game. When they realize that Social Darwinism mode has been reactivated, they''ll change their narcissistic behaviors real fast.

TL; DR: The reason Taylor Lorenz behaves like a narcissistic sociopath is because nobody ever beat her with a shovel for acting that way

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