Reading a piece of fiction is like an invitation to escape the immediate world and immerse yourself in fantasy. You’re expected to put your disbeliefs aside and blot out any distractions to fully experience the story. But some passages in those same books are so blatantly disrespectful and hilariously inaccurate that they can leave half of the population straight-up rolling their eyes. You guessed it, we’re talking about male authors portraying female characters and missing the mark by a long, long shot.
Some male writers are notorious for describing women as one-dimensional beings in unrealistic, often sexualized, and very unnecessary detail. So let us introduce you to the ‘Men Writing Women’ online community dedicated to busting such examples. This corner over on Reddit has simply had enough of “how men who create films, books, TV, and graphic novels characterize women,” and pokes fun at their clueless endeavors.
Dedicated bookworms from all over the world have been sharing their equally ludicrous and infuriating findings. We’ve gone through the subreddit and gathered some of the best examples to share with you all. So continue scrolling to witness just how little some men know about women, as well as to read our in-depth interview with writer, developmental editor, and book coach Trisha Loehr. If you can handle even more examples of women being depicted in baffling ways, check out Part 1 of this feature right here.
#1 Hardly A Coincidence
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#2 This Is Honestly Worse Than The Average Post Here
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#3 Tumblr Already Knows
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#4 Sir Please, I’m Just Trying To Do My Job
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#5 The Kind Of Thing That Gets Your Blood Boiling
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#6 Curious What It Looked Like When She Walked In
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#7 I Know It Isn’t Sunday But I Have Zero Patience Or Memory
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#8 Golden Skin Shimmering In The Summer Sun
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#9 Reading George R R Martin
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#10 The Artist
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#11 Sarcasm And Accuracy Ftw
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#12 I Mean It Kinda Counts
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#13 Mission Completed
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#14 This ‘Author’ Of His Own Effed Up Narrative
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#15 I Know This Is Satire But I Really Wouldn’t Put It Past Some Of The Authors We See On Here
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#16 After Venturing Back And Forth Through This Subreddit, I’d Say This One Isn’t Exactly Surprising
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#17 Women’s Insides Are A Maze, Apparently
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#18 “How To Cure A Feminist”, Published In The Maxim Magazine
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#19 The Wheel Of Time: The Dragon Reborn, By Robert Jordan. A Map Of The City Of The Aes Sedai, An Organization Of Powerful Female Sorcerers. Yup
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#20 Of Course, We Don’t Get Real Pockets In Our Pants Because We Have Tiny Purses In Our Vaginas!
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#21 Old Advertisements That Didn’t Age Well
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#22 Haven’t You Ever Shut Your Vagina In Rage? Ways Of Going Home By Alejandro Zambra
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#23 I… Have No Words
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#24 Ah Yes, The Good Ol’ Death By “Letter-Reading Fits”
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#25 Behold, My Brother’s Twitter
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#26 I’m Looking At You Stephen King, You Big Virgin
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#27 Don’t Your Boobs Roll Like Your Eyes? [ It’s Kind Of A Funny Story- Ned Vizzini]
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#28 Sorry If This Is A Repost
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#29 Ovaries Just Shooting Around All Willy-Nilly, Controlling Our Decisions. Thanks Michael Robotham, Very Cool. From “When You Were Mine”
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#30 A Wonderful Description
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#31 Thank Goodness For Vitamins…
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#32 Redditor Thinks Hearing The Engine Of Expensive Cars Can Change Women’s Hormone Levels
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#33 Herbert Tells Us The Perks Of Small Bust In “Small Busted Women Have Big Hearts”
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#34 From Logic’s Book “Supermarket”. Yikes
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#35 “I Adorbs High Heels” – Goran Parlov
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