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One might as well ask how a novelist could write from the perspective of any character other than himself; after all, he is only one person. Even writing from the perspective of a man, the male novelist would have to imagine himself in the shoes and head and heart of that person who is, at least in a few specific ways, strikingly different from the writer himself - or one would hope, in the realm of fiction.
At heart, we all have the same base for hopes and dreams.
The difference is the lived experiences.
Women have to put up with rape, slut-shaming, mansplaining, being overlooked, overtalked, dismissed, devalued, sexualized, harassed, etc. in male-dominated spaces.
It's not those men don't write convincing women, it's that they don't write convincing female EXPERIENCES because they, in no way, can understand how they come across to us women.
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One might as well ask how a novelist could write from the perspective of any character other than himself; after all, he is only one person. Even writing from the perspective of a man, the male novelist would have to imagine himself in the shoes and head and heart of that person who is, at least in a few specific ways, strikingly different from the writer himself - or one would hope, in the realm of fiction.
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At heart, we all have the same base for hopes and dreams.The difference is the lived experiences.
Women have to put up with rape, slut-shaming, mansplaining, being overlooked, overtalked, dismissed, devalued, sexualized, harassed, etc. in male-dominated spaces.
It's not those men don't write convincing women, it's that they don't write convincing female EXPERIENCES because they, in no way, can understand how they come across to us women.
