I agree with you on average, though I have read men writers who wrote women like they wrote men, and female writers who were unsufferable misogynists, they're the exception in both cases.
But also I think that it's not as important to me to see characters as "full human beings" as it is to you. A lot of writers, especially older than the ones you list, before the emergence of the novel, write characters who are symbols first and human second, and as long as the female characters are good symbols, I can love them even if they're too epic to be fully human (someone like Antigone comes to mind).
And of course lots of my fave writers are poets (male and female) who aren't about characters at all.
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Date: 2025-02-06 09:50 am (UTC)I agree with you on average, though I have read men writers who wrote women like they wrote men, and female writers who were unsufferable misogynists, they're the exception in both cases.
But also I think that it's not as important to me to see characters as "full human beings" as it is to you. A lot of writers, especially older than the ones you list, before the emergence of the novel, write characters who are symbols first and human second, and as long as the female characters are good symbols, I can love them even if they're too epic to be fully human (someone like Antigone comes to mind).
And of course lots of my fave writers are poets (male and female) who aren't about characters at all.