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that-one-pretty-bitch · 1 year

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Fictional male characters who have the its okay to murder but its never okay to disrespect my wife personality >>>>>

#fictional men #fictional men written by women #i would kill for you

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goldies-shenanigans · 2 years

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the only fictional boy written by a man that I will never not stan is percy jackson.

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percabeth #pjo #fictional men #fictional men written by women #heroes of olympus #hoo #chb chronicles #riordanverse #he’s the blueprint #percabeth slays #shout-out to uncle rick for single-handedly raising my standards as early as middle school lol

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stargirllxoxo · 1 year

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i just saw a post which sums up why fictional men written by women are >>>

they are written to say “i’m yours” instead of “you’re mine”

#read #reading #books #fiction #fictional men #fictional men written by women

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balkanradfem · 1 year

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Do you ever think about how sad and messed up it is to grow up in this world as a little girl who likes to read. Because you are a child, and you don't get that there's a difference in who writes the books, you read everything you like, you read the adventures and the fantasy and the mysteries and the traumatic stuff and if you're also very isolated and lonely, these books build your worldview. Because why wouldn't they? They're written by humans, so they have the attitudes, opinions, perceptions, morals and spirits of human beings in them, they're telling you what humans think and feel about things, how they go about situations, what they imagine, what they desire. What your role in all this is, or what it could potentially be.

But, since you are not capable of differentiating the material, and you just read what is available to you, you end up reading a lot of books written by m*n. You also have to go thru the required reading at school - 90% written by m*n. And so slowly, since young age, without even socializing or learning it thru interaction, you find yourself in a world shaped by minds who do not have empathy for women, especially not for little girls. You find yourself relating to the male protagonists, but you also find out that girls only play a passive role in their stories. You find that m*n problems are centered, made important, their suffering and violence critical points in the story, while women are cast aside as helpers, servants, givers, caretakers, and generally just exist in the background, not a thought given to what they are going thru.

You learn thru books written by m*n, that your experience is secondary. Even if you cast yourself as the adventuring, immensely important and struggling protagonist, even then the other women in your mind end up being just background characters, caregivers who do not need a thought spared for their suffering.

Books written by m*n, even for children, will trivialize female suffering to the point where they shape the child's mind into one that looks at the world from a male perspective. Where women either don't matter, or are capable only of giving and aiding, to be cast aside for more important matters, such as male aspirations for their own lives.

Thinking back, I understand why I felt myself unimportant and trivial in any social setting - I understood my role from the written word, and I knew adults found me trivial, secondary, only a background figure to someone else's adventure or mission. As much as I could fight it in my fantasies, and make myself the main character, it felt like a pipe dream, like something that was incredible self-indulged and selfish and would never translate to reality.

I wish it had been different. I wish I had been introduced specifically and only to books written by women, for women. I wish I had found empathy for myself in those books. I wish I had found myself standing on high ground, equal ground, with other women, our desires centered, our lives translated into tales of epic importance - because that's what they are. I wish I had been born into a world where female perspective is available from the start, not after years of growing up and finding feminist literature and having to re-write my own role in my brain, from all of those years of reading male perspective as the default.

I don't think any little girl should be exposed to literature that shape her world as a place where she doesn't matter. I don't think books written by males and shaped by their worldview should be allowed into children's literature, or teenage or for young adults. Girls should not be learning from fiction that their most important value is empathy and understanding for male problems, and their second, to be desired and/or helpful to them, all while being treated as nothing but service and background noise until you're desired for something. We need to open books and find out that we matter too. That our lives can be the center of our existence, rather than being in the service of someone else's life.

#reading as a little girl #analysis of male written literature #radical feminism #feminism #worldview shaped by books #radfem #radblr #thinking of all of the books i absorbed in my childhood where women didn't matter :(#and how messed up thoughts i ended up having of trying to be helpful and useful in order to have value #but i would never have value #because i was a girl in a misognystic world #and the books were informing me of that #and all i wanted was a bit of escape from reality #fiction written by men is garbage :(

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chamerionwrites · 1 month

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Laying aside the question of folks with full-blown genderfeels just for a moment, a thing I’ve always found lowkey interesting is how much more common it seems to be for cishet dudes to choose to play women in RPGs than it is for women to choose to play dudes.

(The flip explanation is ofc that if you’re a straight man who is going to be staring at a character for many hours it might as well be a hot lady, but ime the pattern holds true in tabletop as well as CRPGs, so.)

#something something how rarely women get to see themselves as complex and fully realized characters #something something how rarely men get to be free of the pressure to perform masculinity #idk it just intrigues me #especially because ime the reverse often seems to be true in /written/ fiction.#gender stuff #gaming #on writing #my posts #anecdotally: i have been writing and playing basically a 50/50 gender split of characters my entire life #(i did not recognize this as unusual until multiple schoolteachers commented about it on creative writing projects)#i have never once in my life sat at a table with another ostensibly cishet woman playing a male character #but i have encountered the reverse multiple times!#and obviously there are statistical reasons my perspective might be skewed here (more dudes overall) but still. anecdotally.

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poly-space-nerds · 2 years

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ok i’m feeling emo about spirk. like here’s the thing. in the 1960’s when women watched this space show, they saw these two men with a deep bond. and they were so interested and passionate about their relationship that they found ways the share their interest with others. making fictional stories and spreading it around in basically 60’s zines. This already is kind of incredible. it’s basically the birthplace of fandom.

but what really gets me is that more than 50 years later, people still see these funky lil space men and they create art from this bond they see. But now we get to share it on the internet for thousands to see. we get to tell stories, the same stories housewives in the 60’s did, in a second. Like people have been creating about Spock and Kirk for 50 years. similar art! similar stories! that’s just crazy to me. if i wrote a fic, how much would it have in common with a fic from 1968? It’s just cool right? to think of how many things have changed yet our passion to write about love between these characters stays.

#and yes before anyone says anything #i do understand that a lot of early gay fan fiction was over sexualized #but still it’s so neat right?#like spirk has lasted well over 50 years #the only other ship i think that can even last that long nowadays is destiel #but tbh i think that’s more about the memes at this point #i don’t know maybe i’m wrong #anyway i’m fascinated by fandom history #and it’s crazy to me how i’ve written fanfic about two men that women did 50 years ago #spirk #star trek #spock #james t kirk #jim kirk

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angeldevilorprincess · 3 months

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when is it my turn to get fucked senseless by my enemy-turned-lover on his fucking throne as he confesses his undying love????!

#reader problems #asking for a friend #book boyfriend #fictional men #shadow daddy #men written by women #just finished chapter 48 of Iron flame #xaden riorson #violet and xaden #rhysand #feysand #my roman empire #enemies to lovers #hopeless romantic #angeldevilorprincess #18+ blog

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cambion-companion · 1 year

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How it feels

#comfort characters #aemond targaryen #fictional love #lord of the rings #house of the dragon #star wars #immersive daydreaming #fictional men #fictional crushes #men written by women #harry potter #middle earth #westeros

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poetryofmuses · 11 months

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If someday you realize I'm gone, don't worry about me, I'm probably wandering in the forest searching for my fictional man.

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highladyofterrasen7 · 6 months

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To quote Taylor Swift: I’m fine with my spite, and my tears, and my [books], and my candles

#sarah j maas #books #throne of glass #acotar #crescent city #the cruel prince #twisted series #agggtm #bookstagram #fictional men #men written by women

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eugeniedanglars · 1 year

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"wow people are really acting like keeley was only confirmed bi in this episode when she said as much in season 1? 🙄" yes i do in fact consider keeley kissing and having sex with a woman onscreen better bi confirmation than her flirting with rebecca as a joke twice. glad we're all on the same page

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #don't make me tap the sign #(the sign: 'keeley is a fictional character whose jokes about being attracted to rebecca were written by men #who were playing into a tv tradition of female characters flirting with/kissing other women as a joke or to titillate the audience')#(for more on this phenomenon see the 'girl on girl is hot' and 'sweeps week lesbian kiss' pages on tvtropes)

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festering-psyche · 2 years

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everybody talking about 'lift your hips for me love' when 'please don't shoot me for this' exists?!?

#aaron warner #warnette #warner and juliette #warner #shatter me #ignite me #aaron warner is the standard #aaron warner quotes #slay #juliette ferrars #enemies to lovers #enemies to friends to lovers #fictional men #book boyfriend #men written by women #tahereh mafi

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fangirlingsimp · 1 year

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The best thing a man can do is be a casually dominant malewife.

#fictional men #written by women #i said what i said #the darkling #steve harrington #james potter #cedric diggory #remus lupin #sirius black #marauders #mr. darcy #peeta mellark #im a simp #kaz brekker #loid forger #jonathan byers

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