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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I think this is a tongue-in-cheek jab at the very real issue of men who try to write women who literally don't have any women in their lives except possibly their mothers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Hm. Completely missed that, but then I don’t read articles about what women want.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

The reply is also tongue-in-cheek, it's just when you pluck these things out of their context and put them as screenshots on a different website in front of people who dont' follow the individuals involved, you end up with goofy takes about it.

Also, not for nothing, the way this was screenshot feels like somebody wanted to dunk on the Female Woman Writer instead of reading it in the spirit it was written.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I kind of agree that it seems like the reply is in on it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Is that actually a very real issue, or is just another stereotype? The whole thing is so meta.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

A little of both. I think it was a more common issue a few decades ago and I know it was a common theme on the internet in the 2000s now that a new generation discovers it over and over it kind of perpetuates as a stereotype but I know male writers are so much better about it today than years ago for the same reason.