Can male writers properly express female characters and their emotions?

[Wilhelm-Scream]

"Clear off, ya faht Koontz!"

 

[jaguarr]

"Clear off, ya faht Koontz!"

Picture the scene: The other f**kin' week there, doin' the f**kin' Volley with Tommy, playing pool. I'm playing like Paul-F**kin'-Newman by the way. Givin' the boy here the tannin' of a lifetime. So it comes to there, during the last shot, the deciding ball of the whole tournament. I'm on the black and he's sittin' in the corner looking all f**kin' biscuit-arsed. When this hard koontz comes in. Obviously f**kin' fancied himself, like. Starts staring at me. Lookin' at me, right f**kin' at me, as if to say, "Come ahead, square go." You ken me, I'm not the type of koontz that goes looking for fu**in' bother, like, but at the end of the day I'm the koontz with a pool cue and he can get the fat end in his puss any time he f**king wanted like. So I squares up, casual like. What does the hard koontz do? Or the so-called hard koontz? Sh1tes it. Puts down his drink, turns, and gets the f**k out of there. And after that, well, the game was mine.

jag

 

[Odin's Lapdog]

i don't think brits get a fair deal either...

 

[jaguarr]

i don't think brits get a fair deal either...

To be fair, Begbie was a Scotsman.

jag

 

[Odin's Lapdog]

scotland is in britain

 

[jaguarr]

scotland is in britain

Depends on who you ask.

jag

 

[Odin's Lapdog]

no it doesn't

countries are: england, scotland, wales, northern ireland

britain is england wales and scotland

great britain are england scotland wales and northern ireland.

united kingdom i think also used to encoporate the republic of ireland but i don't think that's the case anymore so i don't know what the hell that is...

all and all, scotland is always in britain.

 

[PLAS]

Milton's Eve is an interesting female character

 

[jaguarr]

no it doesn't

countries are: england, scotland, wales, northern ireland

britain is england wales and scotland

great britain are england scotland wales and northern ireland.

united kingdom i think also used to encoporate the republic of ireland but i don't think that's the case anymore so i don't know what the hell that is...

all and all, scotland is always in britain.

I know some Scots who disagree, even though the official borders of the UK encompass Scotland.

jag

 

[pHat_aL]

Yes. Yes! It is the female who can't properly express male characters and their emotion. If you're a reader--you should know that by now.

 

[Peacekeeper 2.0]

I'm surprised no one quoted Melvin Udall yet in this thread.

Female Receptionist: "How do you write women so well?"
Melvin: "I think of a man... and I take away reason, and accountability. "

 

[ScottyBBadd]

It is a tricky situation. I do some writing on another forum, and my lead character is female. My readers pushed me to push her as my lead character. It does work for me.

 

[8Ball2/JanG5]

What is odin's lapdog talking about in the first place. He says "in this genre." What genre? Anyway, i've seen plenty of pretty well written female characters, but then again I usually watch critically acclaimed movies.

Anyway, a movie by a female director who portrays men pretty well is Vegabond.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

What is odin's lapdog talking about in the first place. He says "in this genre." What genre? Anyway, i've seen plenty of pretty well written female characters, but then again I usually watch critically acclaimed movies.

Anyway, a movie by a female director who portrays men pretty well is Vegabond.

Beats me.

 

[E. Bison]

Of course men can write women well. Most men gain their understandment of women through the first women in their lives: their mothers. It's just that women are portrayed in various stereotypes in the media because it set in standard for stupid reason.

For example: Many critics have claimed that the character Cybil and Sharon were sharing awkward sexual tension in the movie Silent Hill recently. Why? Just because Cybil was portrayed as a head strong, stable female cop. ALSO, because she HAS SHORT HAIR!! THAT is also a stereotype in the media that when a woman has short hair it's because she is a lesbian or bisexual.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

Of course men can write women well. Most men gain their understandment of women through the first women in their lives: their mothers. It's just that women are portrayed in various stereotypes in the media because it set in standard for stupid reason.

For example: Many critics have claimed that the character Cybil and Sharon were sharing awkward sexual tension in the movie Silent Hill recently. Why? Just because Cybil was portrayed as a head strong, stable female cop. ALSO, because she HAS SHORT HAIR!! THAT is also a stereotype in the media that when a woman has short hair it's because she is a lesbian or bisexual.

As far as the hair thing goes, you may have a point. I visualise my character with long hair.

 

[E. Bison]

As far as the hair thing goes, you may have a point. I visualise my character with long hair.

And all writers are aware of this. Even female writers share in the vagueness that portrays women very shallowly. I mean for crying out loud. Who stops to think about lesbian sex when your daughter is missing in a demon infested, ghost town and a guy with a f'n pyramid helmet and head is trying to rape you? Did those critics forget that ROSE WAS MARRIED in that movie.

 

[ScottyBBadd]

And all writers are aware of this. Even female writers share in the vagueness that portrays women very shallowly. I mean for crying out loud. Who stops to think about lesbian sex when your daughter is missing in a demon infested, ghost town and a guy with a f'n pyramid helmet and head is trying to rape you? Did those critics forget that ROSE WAS MARRIED in that movie.

I don't

 

[E. Bison]

I don't

I do...there's something wrong with me.

 

[Kurosawa]

Well we know George Lucas can't

I dunno...Princess Leia is a pretty strong character. He at least could at one time. And his female characters in American Grafitti are very interesting.

Padmé is more an archetype than a character.

 

[Kurosawa]

Of course men can write women well. Most men gain their understandment of women through the first women in their lives: their mothers. It's just that women are portrayed in various stereotypes in the media because it set in standard for stupid reason.

For example: Many critics have claimed that the character Cybil and Sharon were sharing awkward sexual tension in the movie Silent Hill recently. Why? Just because Cybil was portrayed as a head strong, stable female cop. ALSO, because she HAS SHORT HAIR!! THAT is also a stereotype in the media that when a woman has short hair it's because she is a lesbian or bisexual.

That thought never crossed my mind...and i'm as dirty-minded as the average guy. Those critics must be straight up perverts.

 

[Johnichi Chiba]

Bret Easton Ellis is pretty good with writing female characters. Then again he is bisexual...

 

[PhotoJones]

ever watched chasing amy?

then, the answer is yes.

 

[Abaddon]

Joss Whedon

 

[8Ball2/JanG5]

Joss Whedon

What? Maybe..but only the dorky female/open female. His good characters on television are intellectually open and talkative. Whedon can't portray someone's inner throughts through images, he just puts characters in situations.

And that girl in Serenity annoys me as much as any character in that movie. She's written as an awkward girl begging for sex. That is just to appease all the balding browncoats of the world, it's so pathetic.