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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Men writing women badly. Like sexualizing things in weird ways.[/quote]

Ugh yes. [/quote]

Examples ?[/quote]

There’s a whole Reddit forum called Menwritingwomen with hilarious examples: https://www.reddit.com/r/menwritingwomen/
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Confession: I haven’t read a book written by a man in three years. Amazingly, descriptions of women’s appearance can be about height and hair/eye color. You don’t have to include any references to the size of their breasts. Imagine that! [/quote]

This. And women can vary in description. A well known author in the urban-fantasy space spoke in the area pre-pandemic and a woman who doesn’t look like every woman in his books (who are all tall, thin, and buxom except the one that is short, thin, and very fit) pointed out that none of the characters in his books looked like her. He appeared genuinely confused that women would expect to be represented realistically— in his defense he probably assumes he has no female readers.[/quote]

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