Making a character in a book seem realistic and interesting is no easy task. It’s not down to just your skills as a writer, though. You actually have to know a bit about who you’re writing about. In other words—do your research. Unfortunately, some male writers out there seem to have major problems writing female characters and seem shy about asking their female friends for advice.
The ‘Men Write Women’ page on X (former Twitter) documents these scary and cringe-worthy examples of men writing about women without having any idea about them or their anatomy. The project was started back in 2019 when Meghan Vondriska launched her version of the ‘Men Writing Women’ Reddit community. Now, the ‘Men Write Women’ X page has over 69k followers, and there are over 2k fans who follow their Instagram page.
“Women just want to be written as human. That’s it. There isn’t some wild scientific equation to writing women, and it isn’t difficult. Write them as human, with complex feelings, not as body parts that happen to be put together into a feminine form,” Vondriska told Bored Panda.
Let’s take a look at these examples of how men write women and see what Vondriska has to say about this annoying depiction.
More info: MegVondriska.com
#1 This Is The Best One Yet
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#2 We Don’t Get Real Pockets In Pants Because We Have Tiny Purses In Our Vaginas!!! (Stuart Woods, Desperate Measures)
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#3 “3 And A Half Milliboobs Per Handful”
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#4 Yes, Men Would Be Amaaazing At Handling Pregnancy – Evolution Really Screwed This One Up. Bonus Points For “No Woman Gets Raped Unless She’s Looking For It.”
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#5 Well Damn, Where Are All My Kids Then??
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#6 Let’s Not Forget This Gem Either
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#7 Ugly Women Without Good Personalities Should Kill Themselves [rivers Of London By Ben Aaronovitch]
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#8 This Made My Breasts Frown
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#9 That’s Not How Any Of This Works
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#10 Unsurprisingly, The Book’s Terrible Writing From A “Proclaimed” Writer Does Not End Here (The Wedding Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides)
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#11 Male Authors Writing Women Are Actually Just Horror Stories And Here’s Why
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#12 Ah Yes, Exactly How I’d Describe Myself (The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson)
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#13 I’m Sorry, Her Breasts Do What
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#14 She’s Eleven And Scared But Let’s Talk About Her Nipples
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#15 This Whole Book Has Both My Eyes And My Boobs Rolling
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#16 Be Horrified With The Rest Of Us
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#17 Breasts Totally Get Scared
#18 The Count Of Monte Cristo- 1884
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#19 Plz Put This On My Tombstone #submission (The Dogs, Scott Smith)
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#20 *me To My Friend* Excuse Me, May I Please Borrow Your Eyeballs?
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#21 She Was Flesh And Blood, Not The 2D Woman He Was Used To Objectifying On Television, And For That She Was All The More Special (A Time On Earth, Vihelm Moberg)
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#22 Literally No Woman Would Ever Do This (Misterioso, Arne Dahl)
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#23 Only Sluts Have Hairy Legs (The Things They Carried, Tim O’brien)
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#24 Thank God For The Bikini Wax.
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#25 Wish I Had Pillowy Breasts! Taken From Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
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#26 The Rest Reads “Dad Is Looking Like He Made A Better Decision Every Year”. What?!?
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#27 This Is A Totally Anatomically Normal Thing For Breasts To Do #submission (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Philip Dick)
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#28 #menwritingwomen No Wonder Some Of Them Think Our Breasts Stop Us From Doing Stuff If They Think We’re As Obsessed As They Are. We Can’t Get Away From Them. Oh Must Do This Important Thing But Wait!
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#29 ‘the Shining’, By Stephen King. Its Always Breasts
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