@sirpingsalot's comment on '11 questions I wish male fantasy authors would ask themselves before publishing. : Fantasy'

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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

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

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sirpingsalot he/him Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or my thoughts on age of consent laws dont_log_me_out 1yr ago #2178694

SHOULD WOMEN HAVE TO PAY REPARATIONS TO ALL THE MEN THEY GIVE TERRIBLE LIFE ADVICE TO WHICH MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THOSE MEN TO EVER BE IN A RELATIONSHIP?

No, men should know better than to ask women for dating advice. If you're that dumb then you need to take some ownership of it.

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dont_log_me_out Apach/heli If you read this yo mama fat. Lmao gottem. sirpingsalot 1yr ago #2178715

alright. Was dumb. Now what?

trans lives matter

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sirpingsalot he/him Never ask a woman her age, a man his salary, or my thoughts on age of consent laws dont_log_me_out 1yr ago #2178741

If you want good dating advice, ask men who are good at dating. That's just common sense!

Like if I wanted to learn how to cook chicken really well, I would ask a chef. I wouldn't go to a farm and start interviewing the poultry.

Women are terrible at offering dating advice to men because they're used to a system where men are intended to put in 100% of the effort. So from their perspective, dating is easy.

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dont_log_me_out Apach/heli If you read this yo mama fat. Lmao gottem. dont_log_me_out 1yr ago #2178758

oh. That makes sense. Thanks! Now how do @dont_log_me_out find a man who is good at dating?

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