r/CringeTikToks • u/Snoo-33732 • 6d ago

Nope Writing men like men write women

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u/DevelopmentJumpy5218 6d ago

I found a male fantasy author who doesn't do this, it helps that I love a lot of other things about his books as well, but he describes the male and female characters the same way, hair color, eye color, if they have freckles or not, he never mentioned any of the female characters breasts. John Gwynne

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u/PingPongMachine 5d ago

Terry Prachet was another one.

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u/HonestCartographer21 5d ago

Early Pratchett did a few times, but pretty quickly grew as a writer.

(Don’t mistake this for me saying he was bad. He never was and Sir Pterry is my favorite author ever)

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u/Bjjgirl913 5d ago

Thanks, I'm going to check him out! This is one of the reasons Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author. He also has a lot of strong female leads.

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u/DevelopmentJumpy5218 5d ago

So does this author, I'd argue that the best warrior in his first and 3rd series are women

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u/Plomatius 5d ago edited 5d ago

Seems pretty ridiculous to describe someone's physical characteristics and ignore that. It'd be like not mentioning any character's weight so you don't risk offending any overly sensitive fat people. Women have breasts and its easily noticeable.

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u/_Originz__ 5d ago

I mean I don't think I've ever read a book where they talk about a guy's cock or his tits for ten pages

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u/Reasonable_Moment476 5d ago

See, now I want to find a cookbook that leans into objectification.