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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 “big names” that seem to be mostly men 🤷‍♀️

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. The r*pe scene you’re thinking about including could very well alienate, traumatize, or lose you the loyalty of a big chunk of your potential audience.

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Do you have opportunities to ground your female characters in ways that make them feel relatable rather than idealistic?

Like maybe having 1 in 4 female characters get r*ped? :marseyhmm:

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Game of Thrones showing r*pe, incest and murder: deep and mature storytelling

Author I dislike writing a r*pe scene: could very well alienate, traumatize :marseysnoo:

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R*pe was very crucial in 50 Shades of Grey.

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It’s not r*pe if you are hot and ,more importantly, rich

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This but unironically. Epsteins greatest fault was that he did not work out to even pretend to have self standards.

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Also the pedophilia

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if we jailed people for pedophilia 20% of the world would be in jail

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sounds like a job creating program I could get behind. Out of the way, chud.

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Alright then?

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idk I am just saying the pedophilia wasn't why they put him in jail.

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a lot of feminists hated game of thrones and george r. r. martin because of the r*pe scenes, i remember a lot of seethe posting on trollxchromosomes back in the day from women who refused to watch the show because of it

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Which is weird because all women have r*pe fetishes

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>Women signalling the exact opposite of their real views

How is it weird?

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most of them aren't turned on by the idea of being violently r*ped though. their fantasies are more like these romance-novel-ish scenarios where the gigachad recognizes how much they want it and ignores their token "no"s

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W*men instinctively want gigachad regardless of societal conditioning, many such cases.

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I rly like boobs regardless of my conditioning, big surprise

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Somebody needs to start lurking there and sharing the shenanigans


:!marseybarrel: :marseybarreldrunk:

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:#marseywrongthonk:

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literally try writing a book based on this subreddits standards and watch it flop harder than a whale beached out of water.

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