The growing debate about the male gaze
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Some believe that male authors are not able to write accurately from the female perspective or present feminist ideals because they have not experienced life as women
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No matter what you’re writing, if your intended audience is female, make sure to include plenty of personal pronouns—“I,” “you” and “we”—and descriptive terms
But description after description of women raped, murdered, gagged with maxi pads is pointless, and after a while one can only come to one conclusion: the author likes describing this stuff
What matters is this: Do you Become a member! : INSTAGRAM - TWITTER - SUBSCRIBE - Male writers love writing about women’s trauma, but it’s typically only one type
One of them is that the people writing this stuff are usually women, who have somehow internalised the idea that a romance between a man and a woman is somehow inherently bad because the woman is always going to be "boring"
The author basically defaults to writing women into roles where someone of either gender might fulfill an interesting function
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