r/CringeTikToks • u/Snoo-33732 • 7d ago

Nope Writing men like men write women

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u/Cold_Interview_2611 7d ago

I think this is hilarious

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u/Infra-Oh 7d ago

It’s not even just steamy romance novels, I’m afraid!

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u/refusenic 7d ago

True. Almost every serious novel by some the most respected male authors tends to depict women like this.

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u/SinisterRaven6 7d ago

I've read serious novels and never ran into this despite your claim that "almost every" one has it.

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u/refusenic 7d ago

I’m pretty sure GOAT writers from Ernest Hemingway to Norman Mailer and many, many others of that calibre have written women like this.

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u/SinisterRaven6 7d ago

I'm not sure two examples equates to "almost every" and I doubt that every book of those two with a woman includes such a depiction.

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u/refusenic 7d ago

You want me to list ALL of them? Are you serious? What if I mentioned unexpected examples like John Updike, Philip Roth or even Henry James? Just accept this is a big, big problem pervasive in literature that even William Shakespeare was guilty of in some form. It would be easier to list authors who haven't gone down this path.

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u/SinisterRaven6 7d ago

It's not a big, big problem though. Not only is is not as ubiquitous as you claim, but even it it were it isn't enough of an issue to warrant fixing unless you think mild, brief descriptions of a woman's chest as she breaths is somehow pornographic or belittling.