There is a large number of author who write women dreadfully. Some male authors depict female characters as sexualized, unrealistic beings who are mere accessories that meet the desires of these authors.
An egregious example is Murakami:
“Scattered amongst the “normal” parts of 1Q84 are overly-detailed descriptions of female adolescent body parts. One of the main characters, Fuka-Eri, is described as a 17-year-old girl with “large and perfectly ripe breasts.” The novel, often from the male protagonist, Tengo’s, point of view, continues to objectify Fuka-Eri through it all––specifically, her chest as she’s sleeping, walking into a cafe, or simply breathing.”
– https://arcadiaquill.com/19620/opinion/haruki-murakamis-objectification-of-women/
Another is Terry Goodkind:
“Just to give you a taste of what to expect: In book 1 of his most famous series, “The sword of Truth”, he introduces an entire warrior cult that is just straight up magical women in full leather BDSM gear with several chapters just solely dedicated to the main protagonist being tortured by one of them in a bondage session (I’m not even kidding…) Also every woman that isn’t a main character is either overly lustful, evil, there just to be raped or some horrible combination of all three. This is just the very, very tip of the abomination that is Terry Goodkinds writing…” – https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/r3dptr/who_are_the_fantasy_authors_who_are_notoriously/
Is there any example of women doing this to make characters in their books?
by Possible-Whole8046
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Most romance novels, if we’re being honest.
are you serious
romance, supernatural romance, uwu romance these genres are ridiculous
Except for Georgette Heyer, who writes fantastic regency romances, the whole genre is ridiculous
I know women writing gay romance is often… problematic, at least in how they describe the sex.
Making men just eye candy? I think part of the thing is that men are objectified differently, right? I mean – I think if you take a look at twilight maybe the main character’s love interests aren’t “whole” or “human”. But I don’t know.
I don’t read a lot of pink novels or smut aimed at women. I figure maybe some of that would be there. But maybe you mean more mainstream novels? Murakami is pretty literary, at least to a lot of people. Terry Goodkind is, as far as I remember, a bestselling fantasy author.
There absolutely are. Heaps of them. But it’s rare that their works will be held up as important or classic literature in the same way that certain misogynistic male writers are.
The sex scenes in Song of Achilles
Outlander has always had this accusation. The series is like 10+ books long, I won’t be able to look up any specific dialogue. But you can find people joking about elsewhere on Reddit.
This is like the third Murakami post today?
Romances often involve male love interests who are unrealistic fantasies.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/WomenWritingMen/s/J4Xbe0SSJV](https://www.reddit.com/r/WomenWritingMen/s/J4Xbe0SSJV)
Did she ever tit boobily downstairs?
All of TV and modern streaming is women writing men badly. And women.
Pretty much any trashy romance with Fabio on the cover.
The writing of Fifty Shades of Grey is all around awful, and Christian Grey is no exception.
men in these comments shitting on romance books for portraying men as TOO hot, patient and thoughtful …..as if it’s comparable to women being anatomically inaccurate idiotic virgins bound for rape like the “men writing women” meme captures