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Why are women so bad at writing male characters?
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>>25398290
>Why are women so bad at writing
FTFY.
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The answer to anything like this is always going to be the same -- low EQ, low IQ. You should be able to understand this sad predicament, since you're starting gay gender wars thread #14386493 you are most likely from Hindoostan, Nigeria, or Ecuador.
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>>25398290
>Doody
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Honestly, I've come to the conclusion that it is men who are the empathetic gender. While can sympathize with others, they seem totally incompetent or downright incapable of empathizing with at least men: On the other hand, men can empathize with women (even if not much, then at least more than vice versa), because how could they not? Throughout history it is men who have had to pursue and seduce women, which would be nigh impossible if you had zero idea what the other person is thinking.

It's like the ragged, barely-slept detective who's trying to think like the serial killer in order to catch him. But not every detective is Will Graham; and every dude is not Casanova. And almost not a single woman is either.
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>>25398290
>he walked across the room, billionarely.
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>>25398477
Start doing this, folks. Chicks dig it.
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>>25398337
yes, men empathise more
but women are better at describing their emotions
git gud, gentlemen

>>25398477
>he growled across the room, billionairely

>>25398290
>Why are women so bad at writing male characters?
they do the exact same thing men do, but in reverse: write a female character, but with a penis. I have never read more feminine men than the bullshit that women put out.
and then they screech that it's only men who do this
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>>25398290
>also he was a werewolf
I kek'd
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>>25398337
There's nuances of empathy. Women are empathetic in terms of being emotional regulators and perceivers. They are able to help harmonize the emotions of a group in a positive direction.
They can be empathetic without having to channel their sex drive as a means to be empathetic and emotionally intuitive. Men are more aspirationally empathetic. They can want to be something, someone else, and model themselves to get to that point. Their empathy is more of a means to an end for a personal benefit for themselves rather than a tribal or communal benefit.
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>>25398290
Apex fallacy. They don't even see sub-8 men as human beings. Literally the Jews of gender.
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>>25398507
>Their empathy is more of a means to an end for a personal benefit for themselves rather than a tribal or communal benefit.
counterpoint: men have a Bro Code.
women don't. and the concept of not horning after your bestie's ex is alien to them.
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This is also how men write men in their shlock
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>>25398297
Probably a chink, Paki, or bird turd
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>>25398290
Just look at how they reacted to the tall, fit, rich and successful Haaland in the US.
>He's such a little kid at heart, but he just oozes healthy masculinity! Why can't other guys be like that? :)
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>>25398290
I was on some writing forum many years ago, and this lady was writing a romantasy story. In it the male lead was a fairy (literal) son of some nobility where fairies and humans were kind of intermingled. The first chapter made it clear that every woman in his family was abusive toward him, like something out of Cinderella and when he interacted with them he was very submissive like a wounded puppy. Yet as soon as he meets the female lead he suddenly is assertive, charming, and flirty. I asked her in my one criticism why he would suddenly be like that when every woman in his life up to that point was abusive and she responded "I don't understand what you mean."
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>>25398578
>Anon unpromptly starts glazing a random guy from Norway
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I dont now. i dont even know if it is true, as I do not read female authors
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>>25398290
The issue isn't that they're bad at it, because men are also lousy at writing women. The issue is that they don't *realize* they're bad at it.

Right now we're in the climax of an over-correction. Right now it's effectively "if a man did it, it must be wrong, therefore a women doing it is right". The same has been repeated for white vs. non, cis vs. weirdo, etc.

This is obviously a false conclusion and people are realizing it. But we'll probably just cycle endlessly.

People would be so much happier if authors were 100% anonymous.
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>>25398646
I don't think you know what glazing means, m8.
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A woman is never going to write a stubby, flawed little male who is in no way traditionally attractive because her instincts inform her such a man has no worth. There are more women willing to write graphic depictions of rape and murder than a homely man. Men meanwhile will not only write about an unappealing, untraditional woman but also discover a reason to like such an unusual woman, which in turn (if women learn of it) inspires women to emulate that woman in order to attract a male. Ironically, they will do this and then only view attractive men as viable partners. It's all very demented. The relationship between genders is pretty strong proof that the humanity we know is just a runaway system of evolution and neither blessed nor ontologically superior.
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>>25398683
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>>25398297
>EQ
kys
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>>25398507
what an absolute load of horse shit
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>>25398510
>counterpoint: men have a Bro Code.
not really, that's still just aspirational rather than always practiced, which is still my point. People just selectively define as needed who counts as a "bro". You being "friends" with a guy in high school or college for a year or two won't stop him from banging a chick you're into if she's openly receptive to it. And again, that bro code is still about women and the context of sex, it's not some wider stabilizing communal force.
People truly following bro code are essentially people in gangs, which society does everything it can to prevent young men from forming. Young men with very tight and loyal ties to each other is something society has stamped out for about a generation or two now, which is why they only remain for people in extreme poverty.
>>25398732
modern women are increasingly less and less into being "dominated", because they have no need to submit anymore. plenty of random 30 year old women take a random chads sperm and raise just the one child on their own. the tribal structure we evolved under encouraged women to pick a good man to be their "master". I think master/slave terminology is simplifying it too much though, a healthy relationship has both partners being masters and slaves to each other. I serve my wife and she serves me. It's just that obviously through the physical lens of things, I am the stronger one
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>>25398292
It’s pretty straightforward. Consider that the average man is a 90 IQ retard who’s barely even conscious, then consider that their female counterpart is on average a standard deviation below that. The most anomalous .01% of the population smartest women on Earth are still only around 120 IQ max, and even with this relatively high performing IQ they’re still crippled by their other innate cognitive shortcomings. It’s the same reason women don’t invent anything, there are no and never have been any genius women on Earth.
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The answer is very simple. Women are telling you this again and again. Men in womens reality only exist insofar as they fulfill her psychosexual and material fantasies.
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>>25398507
>They are able to help harmonize the emotions of a group in a positive direction.

Lmao yeah by destroying any oppositional to their emotional state definition of reality including other women.
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>>25398859
not Hildegard de Bingen?
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>>25398290
they can't understand struggle they get everything handed to them
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>>25398859
Sort of unrelated but you are stupid to believe that. The person in charge of Russia's money reserve, bank, whatever you want to call it, is a woman. A woman that has somehow managed to make Russia continue going through a brutal war and sanctions. That alone proves the smartest women are above 120iq and their innate womanhood doesn't inhibit their brains.
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>>25398859
>average man is a 90 IQ
>average
>90 IQ
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>>25398691
>The relationship between genders is pretty strong proof that the humanity we know is just a runaway system of evolution and neither blessed nor ontologically superior.
One sex lacks a rational soul so now both sexes lack rational souls?
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>>25398859
the average woman is smarter than the average man, it's just men have both more geniuses and retards. we're the sex of more variation compared to women
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>>25398778
>modern women are increasingly less and less into being "dominated", because they have no need to submit anymore
because they're subsidized by men's tax dollars and infrastructure maintained by men, you delusional fucking retard
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>>25398994
>The person in charge of Russia's money reserve, bank, whatever you want to call it, is a woman. A woman that has somehow managed to make Russia continue going through a brutal war and sanctions.
>Present tense
Anon, I don't know how to tell you this, but you know they have this problem in Russia with falling out of windows whenever the Tsar gets upset, and...
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>>25399211
They let her out for an event after she disappeared, so maybe she just needed a firm talking to about the need to stay away from windows. Another colonel did fall out of a window just a few weeks ago though.
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>>25398778
>that's still just aspirational rather than always practiced
as with all codes
the point is, women don't have that. ask your mum
>bro code is still about women and the context of sex, it's not some wider stabilizing communal force
bro code covers more than just that tho
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>>25398290
Women are unironic chakra vampires that need human semen (soul energy) to survive, diagram of uterus is the image of apostolic baphomet, look it up, complete with horns and all.

When you have sex, part of your soul is being lost on ejaculation, think about it, you cum inside and the cum never comes out, soon enough it is absorbed by the vagina (baphomet devouring soul fragments), but how? It has no mouths, yet it happens. Semen is the vagina's (apostolic baphomet) prefered goyslop, without semen women (demonkind) dies of starvation, which is why women seek sex and always want you to cum inside for an 'unexplainable reason', part of the reason this happens is based on the fact there is no superior entity for them to rely on once their interior energy is depleted, think of it like a really big tank with only one mouth on it that slowly leaks out. They replenish their inner energy by absorbing it from men, because ultimately they have no souls which they can rely on to produce this energy themselves. If they do not get enough energy, they bleed. just look it up, pregnant women (women that have been cummed in and had their energy needs temporarily sated) do not have periods at all, nothing, blood simply does not come out. Yet a woman that does not have this 'suddenly' bleeds and feels ill for several days in a row with pain and weakness and bleeding. Normal?
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>>25398290
>"Men vs. women" is the lowest form of conversation.
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>>25398337
>uhm achtually men are better at everything
God, you retards are such latent homosexuals. All people are selfish idiots who lack empathy altogether due to weak core beliefs and cognitive dissonance. You're not special.
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>>25399496
We're here forever, aren't we..
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>>25399498
Here we go..
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>>25398290
sounds like batman...
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>>25399504
I could say the same about this post >>25398337
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>>25399161
>the average woman is smarter than the average man
This has never been true no matter how much jewish girlboss media you’ve watched
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>>25399498
>uhm achtually men are better at everything
Yes, that is factually, verifiably correct.
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>>25399191
Cyclical economy. Debt is invented. Money is printed. Money is given directly to investment firms. Investment firms give money directly to companies "sending the right message" according to those inventing debt, handling and manipulating all facets of finance. Ignorant people blame le capitalism or le consoomerism based on things they've heard and studied yet refuse to observe. The problem everyone has identified 109 times has fabricated ways to appear as victims despite being vicious masters, and in turn they've invented a sort of carrion society in the belly of its original host where, through the cycle I describe, they've created a cyclical with no need for ordinary citizens. "There's just no empirical proof!" they will decide and huddle back into their useless study written ages ago.
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>>25398477
lyrics to You're So Vain by Carly Simon (female)
>You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht
>Your hat strategically dipped below one eye
>Your scarf it was apricot
>You had one eye in the mirror, as you watched yourself gavotte
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>>25399506
Men *are* better at everything. Well, except for the extremes of some character traits, like being neurotic and agreeable. The most agreeable person in the world is going to be a woman for sure, as is the most neurotic. It's just statistics. I guess women are also better at giving birth and lactating and menstruating and so on; things men literally cannot do. Women also have better colour vision! There are some other vision-related traits women are better at, I can't remember them all. I can also think of some cases where women added a female perspective to things to a field's improvement. Like how primatoloogy, at least as I was told, mostly ignored competition among females, until they got a bunch of female primatologists and these women started noticing that actually female primates are engaging in competition just as much as the males, they just do so in ways that the males don't notice (ironically, this seemed also to apply to human males, which, you know, what does that imply about human males' ability to notice their own much smarter human females' competitive behaviour when they can't even see it in other primates?).
But yeah, for the vast majority of things, men are just better. Not been a controversial claim throughout history. I suspect it won't be one in the not-too-distant future either, and that this period we're living in right now will be remembered as a shamefully dark chapter of madness and stupidity for our race.
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>>25399753
Even at prostitution?
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>>25398290
Women are solipsistic
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>>25398903
>not Hildegard de Bingen?
You're trying to reason with a hylic. Not worth it.
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>>25398290
What about Harry Potter?
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>highest IQ board
>12-year old level gender wars thread
Do better.
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>>25400814
They are in fact enormously egotistic however they are trained to be this way
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>>25398290
>billionaire from old money and also a werewolf
Makes sense because how could you live for hundreds of years and stayed broke
>kind, giving, tall, handsome
reason for protagonist to like him
>his penis was the perfect size
Yeah, he's human-animal hybrid and we know that animal existence was to mate and reproduce, mix them both and you get a certain ideal in a certain member of their body
>only you had ever truly captivated him
Wow as if he was designed to be protagonist love interest
See? You moids are literally filtered over basic logic like this. All of those traits are logical and rational
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>>25400890
Gender wars are high IQ stuff. Right now /tv/ is in the lead especially with Obsession. We've fallen off the IQ scale
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>>25400890
Your presence here is an exercise in powerlessness. You will continue to visit this place and I will continue to pollute it for my amusement. This will annoy you but in the schema of overall power you are my bitch.
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>>25400866
as a longtime HP fan and fanfiction writer let me tell you, he's written like a woman would write a male
it doesn't show as much because he's a boy and there's a certain androgyny of behaviour in youth
furthermore, JKR was consciously imitating the bildungromans and heroic journey of her classical education, the usual "growing up means sacrificing a part of yourself to save the world because it's the noble thing to do", which is inherently male

Katniss Everdeen is a fine example of the female alternative
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>>25399161
I doubt it, to be honest. Women just seem to innately understand how to game social systems, which means they do well in education.
Lock them in a tool shed and ask them to build a table from scratch, and they wont be better at it than men.
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>>25399753
>>25400399
>t. latent homosexuals
also tl;dr
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>>25400814
Oh no, not heckin' Star Warserino!
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>>25398290
When you start thinking about "best ten female characters written by men" and vice versa, the difference is stark. Women can write strong archetypes but when it comes to nuance and interior life . . . not so much.

What are the obvious options?
— Werewolf (Heathcliff)
— Billionaire werewolf (Rhett Butler)
— Urbane billionaire werewolf (Mr. Darcy)
— Rough-around-the-edges but basically good fellow billionaire werewolf with a past (Rochester)
— Genius uncompromising incorruptible Nietzschean architect werewolf (Howard Roark)
— Colourless boring patriarchal voice of reason (Mr. Knightly)
— Dry-as-dust impotent patriarchal stereotype (Mr. Casubon)

If you want an empathetically imagined male character written by a woman, best bet is to go for a lesbian author:
— The Persian Boy (Mary Renault)
— The Talented Mr. Ripley (Patricia Highsmith)
But notice how Bagoas and Tom are both homosexual.


Also, few of these characters are really likeable. (Certainly not compared with the most likeable women written by men.) Women aren't interested in likeable men. They're interested in billionaire werewolves who fall helplessly in love with Plain Little Me.
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>>25399161
>doesn't understand how averages work
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>>25401659
>doesn't understand how averages work
ironic, cause you don't understand how kurtosis works
consider these two data sets, W and M, each of which sum to 60:
W: 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6
M: 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4
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>>25401669
I can see I understand reality better than you do.
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>>25401673
>i-i-it just is okay!
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>>25401687
>projecting
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>>25398290
this or he is proxy girl like harry potter
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>>25401362
For an adolescent boy in turn of the century Britain, he definitely wasn't calling enough things "gay" or causally calling Ron a "ginger twat" enough.
>but they're friends
Yeah, exactly.



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