“Men Writing Women”: 30 Times Male Authors Wrote Female Characters So Poorly, It’s Almost Like They’ve Never Met A Woman Before (New Pics)

by Patrick Penrose Published Nov 16, 2025

Writing a captivating piece takes way more than putting pen to paper. The author spends countless hours developing the plot, writing and rewriting it, crossing out hundreds of unnecessary lines, and doing the research—lots and lots of it. Some writers could work more on the two, wiping out some of the information or researching it better. Otherwise, they might end up being shamed for some of their inaccurate, unrealistic, or plain foolish lines. As these male writers depicting female characters did.

The subreddit “Men Writing Women” is dedicated, as the description suggests, to “how men who create films, books, TV, and graphic novels characterize women”. Members of the community clearly don’t shy away from sharing their finds, and we have gathered some of their best examples into this list today. If you feel like it’s too short, check out our previous pieces about “Men Writing Women” here and here.

#1 Who Doesn’t Love To Bleed And Writhe In Pain Once A Month?

“Men Writing Women”: 30 Times Male Authors Wrote Female Characters So Poorly, It’s Almost Like They’ve Never Met A Woman Before (New Pics)

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#2 Jane Goodall Should Just Go Ape S*it

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#3 “Let Them Puppies Free!”

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#4 [clans Of The Alphane Moon By Philip K. Dick] How To Assert Your Dominance Over Other Women: Scare Their Nipples Off

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#5 What Else Could A Woman Want After Coming Out Of A Coma? Beyond The Darkness (1979)

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#6 Scientology, A New Slant On Life – By L. Ron Hubbard (1965)

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#7 Til That I, A Virgin, Have At Least One Kid. (Once Gone, By Blake Pierce)

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#8 I’d Like To Imagine This Was Done For The Male Characters As Well

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#9 In Death, I Hope All My Friends Remember Me For My Great Rack [1q84, Haruki Murakami]

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#10 I’m Surprised No One Has Posted This Guy Yet?? From Jpod By Douglas Coupland

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#11 How To Kiss A Girl…sure

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#12 Women Have Useless Faces (A Happy Death By Camus)

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#13 (Tw: Physical Violence) [nana By Zola] Zola’s Nana, Or How To Stop Worrying And Learn To Love Physical Abuse

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#14 The Amount Misogyny In This One Was A Bit Shocking. The Lake Of The Dead By André Bjerke

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#15 Hell’s Angels By Hunter S Thompson. Men In The 1960s Just Understood Women, You Know?

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#16 There Are Many Different Types Of Arm Folds, I’m Glad Robert Cleared That Up For Me

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#17 Liana Finck, Women In Literature, 2022

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#18 Ah Yes, The Kind Of Giggles That Spill From Your Breasts. Of Course The Girl Is “Just Turned 16” As Well. (Hospital By Han Song)

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#19 That Natural Womanly Instinct To Love Cooking (Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? By Philip K Dick)

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#20 “But Whatever” (The Night Shift, Alex Finlay)

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#21 Lake Of The Dead By André Bjerke

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#22 Lots To Unpack Here [the Road Back By Erich Maria Remarque]

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#23 I’m Sorry, What?!? The Body Keeps The Score By Bessel Van Der Kolk

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#24 Breast Roll By “It’s Kind Of A Funny Story” By Ned Vizzini

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#25 Nod By Adrian Barnes

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#26 “A Fine Porch Door”… From The Stand By Stephen King

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#27 I Feel Christopher Pike’s Spellbound Could Fit

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#28 Coast To Coast Murders, James Patterson

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#29 The Immortalists By Chloe Benjamin. A Genuinely Good Book With The Worst First Paragraph!

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#30 Go Home Everyone About To Post Stephen King. Alizee Yeezy Has Trumped All Of You

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