Can male writers properly express female characters and their emotions?

It's recently come to my attention that women may read and watch programmes from this genre and probably feel that they are being misrepresented.

This might come down to the fact that a lot of the writers perhaps are males and may not know what's what when it comes to putting across female emotions and their motivations to do certain things.


As i've tried to discover in another thread recently, there seem to be no or very few stories of mothers becoming superheroes and how they have had to adapt their roles as being a parent and also crimefighting and so forth. Perhaps the reasons this is so is due to the fact that the male writers feel that they can't properly capture what it is to be a mother. Even another older thread of mine seems to give the impression that being a stay at home parent may not be as stressful as what a 9-5 job may be by some members.


Certainly in the films a very large proportion of the females shown on screen tend to be one sided and very flat and less dynamic than their male counterparts. victims, vixens, weak, sex figures, silent assassins, revenge driven, lead by men, anti men.


i know it's strange to want to look at things the way they are from a woman's perspective but it would be nice to know if this demographic thinks of what they are getting.

It's one of the reasons i really wish Dew and other ladies break it into the industry but i hope she doesn't get typecast as a female realist writer but then that would inevitably bring the future follow up to this thread asking whether woman can really portray males and their emotions well but i feel this thread is a long way off.

so in the mean time i will just try and deal with this.

 

i've never watched seinfeld. what makes you say this about her character?

 

but how can you really judge yourself as a man, unless you've surrounded yourself with a large number of females either as friends or even had plenty around you growing up in the form of cousins and sisters.

 

wearing female undies does things to your psyche, you should try it.

 

i covered this in the first post.

the question you give is not one i cared about since men are generally less likely to be constantly misrepresented since there are SOOO many male writers outthere, while female misrepresentation is more likely to happen quite a lot.

 

it's really the female point of view i'm asking for but i'll get what i'm given...

besides i'm not aware of that many female writers myself so taking myself as a norm, i assume that many other hypers couldn't go on to name more than five either which limits the disccusion considerably.