Notably, men often aren’t able to know women this same way. The writer Junot Díaz says the women he teaches can usually credibly write from a male point of view, but the guys can never write from a woman’s. “If you’re a boy writer, it’s a simple rule: you’ve gotta get used to the fact that you suck at writing women and that the worst woman writer can write a better man than the best male writer can write a good woman,”
