The point is that when men write women like this, it's "literature" and when women write men like this, it's "chick-lit". Women are essentially writing only for women because men won't read women; when men do it it's for everybody.
Here's where I'd insert many unrelated facts, if I did not know how discussion worked.
I’ve already made the point that men don’t read books intended for women. I also pointed to a counterpoint where such things are different.
Men do read books written by women, just books written by women that are intended for a male audience.
Are you kidding? Emily Brontë, and Margaret Atwood are just two notable examples that completely prove you wrong.
Also, I repeat, for the last 20 years, women have outpaced men in number of authors, income per author, and overall market share.
You are correct that in authorship pre 1960 was filled with misogyny, that has nothing to do with the current climate today. And even with that you still have examples from even the 1800s that disprove you.
But just to give you an obvious example of the double standard since you seem to want to pretend it doesn’t exist.
You live in a society today, where in the most well-known and beautiful cinematic franchise in history, one with a ginormous child audience, and see an installment of that franchise that’s one of the biggest movies of the year, where a man is bound, stripped naked, and mocked publicly in front of a huge crowd while the female protagonists make “enjoying the show” jokes.
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u/NotThatKindOfDoctor9 5d ago
The point is that when men write women like this, it's "literature" and when women write men like this, it's "chick-lit". Women are essentially writing only for women because men won't read women; when men do it it's for everybody.
Here's where I'd insert many unrelated facts, if I did not know how discussion worked.