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Making a character in a book seem realistic and interesting is no easy task. It’s not down to just your skills as a writer, though. You actually have to know a bit about who you’re writing about. In other words—do your research. Unfortunately, some male writers out there seem to have major problems writing female characters and seem shy about asking their female friends for advice.
The ‘Men Write Women’ page on X (former Twitter) documents these scary and cringe-worthy examples of men writing about women without having any idea about them or their anatomy. The project was started back in 2019 when Meghan Vondriska launched her version of the ‘Men Writing Women’ Reddit community. Now, the ‘Men Write Women’ X page has over 69k followers, and there are over 2k fans who follow their Instagram page.
“Women just want to be written as human. That’s it. There isn't some wild scientific equation to writing women, and it isn't difficult. Write them as human, with complex feelings, not as body parts that happen to be put together into a feminine form,” Vondriska told Bored Panda.
Let’s take a look at these examples of how men write women and see what Vondriska has to say about this annoying depiction.
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#1
This Is The Best One Yet
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
wow. so many weird misogynistic stereotypes here. Does this person also believe our wombs detach, fly about our bodies and make us crazy once a month?
Benjamin Lensgraf 4 years ago
Technically, men have longer urethras, creating more of a 'maze' to go through, than the shorter more direct route women have - even in men with the smallest of penises, like the author of this passage!
Yana Makarevitch 4 years ago (edited)
I mean, why do you even feel the need to describe how someone is peeing in your book in such great detail? Even if it was anatomically correct, it still would be absolutely unnecessary.
Anony Mouse 4 years ago
This is from Pulitzer Prizing winning author John Updike, from The Witches of Eastwick. He's known for writing women...well not great.
Monika Soffronow 4 years ago
Maybe he is doing a good job painting the picture of the misogynistic man who tried to hide taking his dentures out? Context? Anyway, I never did get why Updike became such a big name.
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Shelby P 4 years ago
Exactly!!!! I as a woman have NEVER had to wait for the pee to come out (not to say other women haven't) but I know men with prostate problems do have this trouble and therefore they are writing women as having a problem they don't have because they know nothing about women!
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RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
He couldn't be more wrong. The reason women get more urinary tract infections than men is because their bladder is closer to the exit, not further away.
Ljdia 4 years ago
Besides us being able to "conjure it up immediately" as well lol (if healthy; as our male counterparts).
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Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
Somebody failed biology. Also this is a hilarious image to imagine.
Ashley Degner 4 years ago
The irony is anatomically the urinary system of women is simpler lol.
Elida Lechuga 4 years ago
I wish I had to wait for the pee to come out. Sometimes it's heading out before I'm ready.
MellonCollie 4 years ago
This writer's girlfriends generally have some bladder issues, I guess .... or this book's character has. But seriously ... WTF?
Erin E 3 years ago
Maybe she hides from him in the bathroom, and that’s the only explanation he could come up with.
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Bored Little Panda 4 years ago (edited)
Unless he has a wife that take 8 minutes to pee, where do people find such "information"
Zophra 4 years ago
Bahahaha... With my husband could consistently conjure it all into the bowl and never the rim.
Ljdia 4 years ago
:D I assume you mean "Wish". Thanks, your comment made me laugh!
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AnInrovert 4 years ago
Uuuuuhhhhhh... we just wait on the toilet because it’s one of our few moments of privacy.... but even that was ruined.
ShikamaruPanda 4 years ago
bruh.. serioully? He describes the differences through men and women through.. pee issues?
M Kate McCulloch 4 years ago
jebus cheesecrips - did he completely misunderstand his anatomy classes? Or never, ever bother to ask a woman? Wait, though -WhyTF is he righting about pee, exactly?
Michał Jastrzębski 4 years ago
peeing as a...maze...? Wut? Shitty biology knowledge is shitty, lmao
Leila Noury 3 years ago
what in the lord- I may be male but I'm trans, so I was born female... yeah this aint how we use the bathroom.....
invisible sheep 4 years ago
i laughed at this so hard I almost peed my pants, does that mean my body is missing the "maze" here?
Izzy Curer 4 years ago
Look, the guy just wants to make sure her uterus doesn't fall out, okay?
OdangaUsagi 4 years ago
Charlane Harris is a woman and she wrote it. I guess she never met anyone with prostate issues..
Knitting Panda 8 months ago
Someone needs to tell this guy the real reason it takes us so long in the bathroom. Ok, Mr. Updike, it is nothing mysterious, it is simply because we have to take off pretty much all our clothes to pee. Then we have to put them back on again. Then, unlike you guys, we actually do wash our hands.
Stargazer66 11 months ago
I'll bet this author thinks we can control our menstrual flow like we do with our pee. What a ginormous moron.
Sylvia O'Neill 2 years ago
yep, that's why so many pregnant women have to rush to the toilet... cos their bladders are just - waiting!
Kenyatta Harmon 3 years ago
I keep imagining some guy standing above the toilet, chest puffed out proud hands on his hips, looking all proud.
Gerard Neaux 3 years ago
Yep yep this must be exactly what women think about when sitting on the toilet: comparing their own peeing speed to that of men. Everything's competition between sexes!
Dario Dainese 3 years ago (edited)
we need a super heroine with the superpower of instant peeing. she will bring justice by rescuing women out from their own mazes!
Mandalorian 3 years ago
Excuse me but what. WHAT. Who even writes this stuff? I mean I'm a boy myself but I'm not stupid. Girls don't sit and wait for pee, thats stupid! Did he even research? As I always say, some of us are brighter than others.
Robert Hughes 3 years ago
Im disturbed by the paragraph. "Men, they were able to conjure it up immediately, that was one of.their super powers." How tf do y write this?
Michael Beswick 3 years ago
That author has absolutely no understanding of basic biology. The female urethral tract is far simpler than a males, and much shorter!?
Kyle Bartz 3 years ago
The author is describing the beliefs of the time using language that is intended to make you feel a little startled and uncomfortable. Are we canceling this?
purple boi 3 years ago
ima girl so i think dis auther is dumb as h3ll(i aint even tryna be rude)
Ella Greenman 3 years ago
Men, they where able to conjure it up emideately, that was one of their powers, standing lordly over thw bowl. JESUS CHRIST
Kathleen Lavey 3 years ago
Yeah. Clearly this guy has never been anywhere near a woman drinking coffee.
Alice Fabian 3 years ago
What. the. actual. f*ck. Seriously? Dude. What book is this, I want to read the rest of what he had to say.
MALEC GWITTER 3 years ago
My god...sorry but, the f**k do men know? My monthly joy started couple months ago and I already feel tortured.
George Tasie 3 years ago
This dude isn't just clueless about female anatomy, he's also clueless about MALE anatomy. Like dude, EVERYONE'S insides is a maze. That's how it works. For our insides to be straight we would need to be illogically tall. WHAT THE F!!!
LotusWolff 3 years ago
Men, as they stood 'Lordly' above the bowl. The lordly men also spill pee over. Wonderful women dont
Simone Adams 3 years ago
"... as they stood lordly above the bowl" – this is a poem. Note the vowels and assonance
Eulalie Grace 4 years ago
"Lordly above the bowl ..." Now THAT brings up some serious imagery Lordly 😸 (giggle - snort)
Gayle Hunter-Gatherer 4 years ago
The murky mysterious path through all those frightening and unmentionable reproductive bits.
AnInrovert 4 years ago
‘As they stand lordly over the bowl’ he’s literally bragging about how men can pee.....
Sandy Kavanaugh 4 years ago
Is this for real? If men can stand lordly over the bowl, why do they miss such a big target?!
Colleen Hindson 4 years ago
This segment has been mistitled. It is a lot more about misogyny than ignorance.
Colleen Hindson 4 years ago
Conclusions men come to out of their ingrained misogyny, of which they are probably only vaguely aware.
Susan Duberstein 4 years ago
God help me, I know what this is from. It’s “The Witches of Eastwick.”
WildBerry 4 years ago
Has nothing to do with anatomy. Not all women can void on cue, just like not all men can. The author had no need to apply this to all women and really, no need to mention it at all.
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Kymmers Brown 4 years ago
You know what? This is POV. Written from the point of view of the woman on the toilet. Doesn't necessarily mean the author has no idea. This could just be an opinion of the woman on the toilet... maybe she doesn't know she has a medical condition?
Grumble O'Pug 4 years ago
omg. Mazes? You are in for a big surprise when you actually crack a biology book open. Idiot.
Nic Dudley 4 years ago
LOL! Women's urethra is about four inches (or actually maybe a little bit more) but Men's is like triple the length - the proof is in the different lengths for catheters. Women having short urethras is why they get UTIs more easily.
Tania Dubodiel 4 years ago
Female urethra is around 1.5 inches and male one is around 7-8 inches, but the rest is absolutely correct.
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WildBerry 4 years ago
That's because the fetus is pressing on the bladder. Do not assume that ALL women can start their stream of urine easily, especially if they're older.
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WildBerry 4 years ago
Wait til you get older, hon. You won't be doing a horse imitation anymore.
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#2
We Don’t Get Real Pockets In Pants Because We Have Tiny Purses In Our Vaginas!!! (Stuart Woods, Desperate Measures)
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
This is horrifying. Has this man ever seen a vagina? I could not imagine jamming credit cards up it.
#3
"3 And A Half Milliboobs Per Handful"
What Does it Mean When a Woman is Written by a Man?
At times, male authors depict female characters as sexualized, unrealistic beings who are mere accessories that meet the desires of these authors. Men portraying women in this manner is called the male gaze. The male gaze or a woman written by a man tends to focus on the body rather than the character itself. When women are objectified without giving them a voice in the story, it’s typically said that the woman is written by a man.
#4
Yes, Men Would Be Amaaazing At Handling Pregnancy - Evolution Really Screwed This One Up. Bonus Points For “No Woman Gets Raped Unless She’s Looking For It.”
RaroaRaroa 4 years ago
Oo. This writer does not like the look of pregnant women, so has decided that women must hate it - you know, because he hates it and they surely all want to appeal to him because he's so awesome.
#5
Well Damn, Where Are All My Kids Then??
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Oh someone needs to tell this person men also get stretch marks and they are not ll from having kids. weightloss or gain does it too
#6
Let's Not Forget This Gem Either
Stephanie Did It 4 years ago (edited)
Just imagine the reverse: "every hair in my beard becoming a tiny penis"
Women Written by Men: What Does Vondriska Say?
“I’m an avid reader, but the straw that broke the camel’s back was a novel my boyfriend lent me, where the female character was described by her breasts, and the male character was described by his personality.”
“Working in advertising, I tend to be Very Online, so taking my anger to Twitter seemed like a natural parallel. I was familiar with the Men Writing Women subreddit, but created a Twitter account in order to craft a consistent narrative and to build a community that wasn’t hidden behind anonymity,” Vondriska revealed what inspired her to create ‘Men Write Women.’
Vondriska, from Wisconsin, devours 3 to 5 books each week. (Meanwhile, our piles of started-but-unfinished books keep on growing.) According to her, a lot of male writers who tend to be thought of as the “founders of the literary canon” are continuous offenders. “John Updike, for instance. But the greatest repeat offender is definitely Stephen King. His portrayal of his female characters is honestly offensive,” Vondriska said.
#7
Ugly Women Without Good Personalities Should Kill Themselves [rivers Of London By Ben Aaronovitch]
#8
This Made My Breasts Frown
#9
That's Not How Any Of This Works
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
Oh dear, this guy just revealed himself to be a very very confused virgin.
Male Authors Writing About Women Actually Well
However, it isn't all doom and gloom in the literary world. There are male writers who can write women well, too. “Terry Pratchett is wonderful, and I’ve yet to see a submission from Michael Crichton,” Vondriska shared that she, like many of us, is a Pratchett fan. Vondriska also pointed out that, in her opinion, the best writers are well-read. So, she encouraged all of us to read more and (most importantly) read more widely.
“Pay attention to what you’re reading and who you’re reading. You have to make sure your bookshelf isn't made up of just men. Add in some spice—some female authors, some nonbinary authors, or authors of color. And lastly, just because you were assigned a book in high school doesn't mean it’s good!”
#10
Unsurprisingly, The Book's Terrible Writing From A "Proclaimed" Writer Does Not End Here (The Wedding Plot, Jeffrey Eugenides)
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Boobs are testicles. They don't "withdraw" because there is muscle and a rib cage underneath and they are just mounds of fat and milk producing tissue. I feel like so many people here did not pay attention in health class. How can they be so clueless about the female body?
#11
Male Authors Writing Women Are Actually Just Horror Stories And Here's Why
#12
Ah Yes, Exactly How I'd Describe Myself (The Diamond Age, Neal Stephenson)
What is the Female Gaze Theory?
The female gaze theory refers to the female point of view in the story that focuses on the realistic depiction of the characters rather than objectifying their bodies. Usually, when netizens say, “written by a woman,” they are talking about this realistic female gaze that gives depth to the character rather than their physical appearance.
#13
I'm Sorry, Her Breasts Do What
#14
She's Eleven And Scared But Let's Talk About Her Nipples
#15
This Whole Book Has Both My Eyes And My Boobs Rolling
#16
Be Horrified With The Rest Of Us
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
Men like Conde should not be surprised that sexy women love other women, and he really should try to help that male chauvinism.
#17
Breasts Totally Get Scared
#18
The Count Of Monte Cristo- 1884
#19
Plz Put This On My Tombstone #submission (The Dogs, Scott Smith)
#20
*me To My Friend* Excuse Me, May I Please Borrow Your Eyeballs?
#21
She Was Flesh And Blood, Not The 2D Woman He Was Used To Objectifying On Television, And For That She Was All The More Special (A Time On Earth, Vihelm Moberg)
#22
Literally No Woman Would Ever Do This (Misterioso, Arne Dahl)
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
In the first place this whole soaking thing sounds like a dishcloth, this guy obviously doesn't know how pads work. In the second place, pads stick to underwear, in my experience you don't just "fish them out", this guy obviously doesn't know how pads work. In the third place, of course the only possible rational reason why a woman would refuse sex is because she's on her period!, this guy is obviously an effing asshole.
#23
Only Sluts Have Hairy Legs (The Things They Carried, Tim O'brien)
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
dry sounds like she just needs to use more lotion. dry skin is horribly itchy
#24
Thank God For The Bikini Wax.
#25
Wish I Had Pillowy Breasts! Taken From Ben Fountain’s Brief Encounters With Che Guevara
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I'm more concerned by the fact he seems to routinely check out boys' butts and uses that as the benchmark of sexy.
#26
The Rest Reads “Dad Is Looking Like He Made A Better Decision Every Year”. What?!?
#27
This Is A Totally Anatomically Normal Thing For Breasts To Do #submission (We Can Remember It For You Wholesale, Philip Dick)
Lord Mysticlaw 4 years ago
These male authors are making my breasts pulse with resentment. They're really pissed off.
#28
#menwritingwomen No Wonder Some Of Them Think Our Breasts Stop Us From Doing Stuff If They Think We’re As Obsessed As They Are. We Can’t Get Away From Them. Oh Must Do This Important Thing But Wait!
Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
Well this seems to reinforce every ugly stereotype of men being sex crazed horndogs
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Miss Milinky 4 years ago
I am suddenly very aware that my breasts are complete underachievers. Does anyone know how I train them to do even half the things listed in this post? Most of the Boobs here seem to have the intelligence and sentience of the average 4 year old human child. I've just tried, but I can't even get mine to express mild disapproval. :-(
Ms.GB 4 years ago
I'm beginning to think my breasts are just a couple of freeloaders, is there someway I can motivate them into doing something more than just hanging out and getting in the way?
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Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I am amazed at how many have a tenuous understanding at best of female anatomy and how they anthropomorphize breasts and give them more personality than their female characters.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
The problem here is that women are nothing but sexual objects to these types of men.
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Maeve O’Loughlin 4 years ago
Challenge: describe yourselves in the style of these entries. I myself am tall, dark haired and willowy, with eyes like winter ice and breasts that are furious at the world around me.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
No, go and describe men in the way these authors describe women. There will be so many confused and frowning penises!
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Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago (edited)
I was the US print buyer for an international glass company (think FAST) My boss's frat brother had started a printing company and wanted our business. Knowing I had no intention of switching companies (and that it as entirely my decision) , my boss set up a meet & greet, just for show. Now, back in the day - I was much thinner and pretty hot. Wearing the company V-neck sweater, I met with Ed. Even before we went into the conference room he was staring at my bust (which has always been a blessing & a curse). As I was introducing myself, he was just staring at my boobs. I asked him a few questions and he literally ANSWERED MY BOOBS. I'd had enough and bent my head down to meet his eyes and said, "They don't speak, Ed". He turned purple, my boss almost fell off his chair laughing & I just calmly left the room. No. He did not get our business.
Nomadus Aureus 4 years ago
Who the ever-loving f**k publishes this crap? HOW did *these* end up in production, on a shelf and then get bought?!
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Everyone who intends to write a physical description needs to attend one autopsy, start to finish, for a person of each gender. You lose the mystique and the stupid pretty quick that way.
Cori 4 years ago
I went to the cadaver lab with my high school anatomy class. Plus I get extra bonus points because a student forgot to properly um... store his cadaver, so I now know we're all just a bunch of sentient beef jerky.
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blugeagua 4 years ago
What is with these men's obsession with female breasts? Among many other problematic stuff. And even little girls. Yuck!
Bubbs Art 4 years ago
I’m with you. Men really have no idea how to write a decent female character without falling for all these tropes listed imo
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Sara Rodrigues 4 years ago (edited)
How far authors go to give visual descriptions and feelings, but instead miss the point entirely and end up writing the most ridiculous things. But we shouldn't just mention the authors, as the books are always reviewed by editors and many others, and not a single person though about questioning these things...
rainforest 4 years ago
I no longer remember which book exactly it was, but Haruki Murakami had a female character who was so poor that she had only one bra and she had to wash it every evening. Wash it every evening! Dude! I'll never forget that xD
Monika Soffronow 4 years ago (edited)
I am certain some people do that. I was at a friends place when her son hollered "Mom, there are no ironed socks!" He was like 17 or 18 and she promptly ironed a pair of socks for him. He didn't know that you could wear socks that had not been ironed. My own teenage son did not know that anyone could/would iron socks and neither did I.
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Charlotte 4 years ago
These make me think of the My Dad Wrote A Porno podcast. This guy discovered his dad has been writing erotica for years and is genuinely confused how he was ever conceived! It’s comedy gold - very much NSFW and also NSF Driving, as you’ll laugh so much you’ll crash!
Michael Se 4 years ago
And shockingly... Rocky Flintstone is a better writer than some of these!
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Jo Choto 4 years ago
I usually come to BP for the feel-goods. Today I'm feeling really angry. So today I'm going to focus on describing the protagonist in my novel in ways that won't make people want to claw their eyes and brains out.
Channon Doughty 4 years ago
The first example you use is not an invention of Min Jin Lee. Rather it is a very clever reference to long-held, oft told rumor that a particular champagne glass was molded from Marie Antionette's breast. If you've ever seen anything set in the early 1900's, they were probably drinking champagne or cocktails from one of those glasses. It's hysterical, but most likely untrue. Champagne-...f4cf5a.jpg 
Glory The Rainwing 3 years ago (edited)
They also think boobs are: (______😡______) (______😡_____)
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Kevin Hickey 4 years ago
I loved Stephen King as a teenager, and I still do. But re-reading him as an adult is pretty cringey. Every single female character is described anatomically.
WildBerry 4 years ago
Agreed. I can't re-read his old stuff and his new stuff is far too wordy. Looks like his son, the author Joe Hill, is a chip off the old block with the wordiness too.
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Zenozenobee 4 years ago
You know what? France is on lockdown again, l needed a good laugh, this trend overkilled it for me. Thank you so much for the laugh
ispeak catanese 4 years ago
The comments on this post certainly improved the idiotic excerpts!
Marilyn Bojanowski 4 years ago
This makes my breasts laugh with toothy smiles, the left slightly more expressive than the other as my cleavage juts out in disgust. They talk amongst themselves in my bra, wondering if we should educate men. My right insists that the men of the world become competent, while the left argues that we wouldn't have as much reason to laugh at them. With which of my intelligent breasts do you agree?
Kelley Baltierra 4 years ago
I have to wonder if there's an equally bad women writing men ... I mean really, why should it be so one sided?
Alex_cat lover 3 years ago
There is some woman but some men think think that they are the dominant gender so usaly it’s men
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Reading through this post was just... PAINFULLY hilarious
EchoRise 3 years ago
Why is it that I’m offended. I’m not like anything these idiots are writing about. I am in middle/high school and my breasts started developing in 3rd grade. Yet I seem to be offended. Most likely because I just kinda feel like men don’t pay attention to us and just our body. Like they see us as objects. I took a genius class. It was about the feminine and male genius and it wad incredibly enlightening. Women are supposed to protect the man’s heart and men are supposed to protect the woman. You should take one of those classes. It’s actually really helpful.
Tulasidharan V I 3 years ago
Even as a man I cringed at the utter ridiculous paragraphs,who writes such books??
Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
FYI, Michael Crichton studied to be a medical doctor but never actually practiced, just leapt into writing as a career. Which probably explains why he was able to get biological details about women so perfectly, and why I really wish he were still around to publish more novels. RIP.
Idk Katniss Potter 4 years ago
I hate how women are stereotyped like this and are a sexual object for men to observe.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
This is as hilarious as it is horrific. We need the same thread for female authors talking about men. Romance novels are just as f'n ludicrous XD
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
I read the first 4 or 5. And as a female, I am just so offended. Are the male writers unmarried, virgins that they really know so little about women. And as I noted above, where are the proof readers? They must also be in the same category.!!
Fred and George Weasley 4 years ago
what the actual hell is wrong with men? why do they even WRITE this into their books?
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
James Patterson's "Murder Club" reads like he's never known any women in his life. Um, women who have been friends for over 20 years DO NOT have such stilted and formal conversations. And even though my best friend prefers to be called "Patricia", when we're alone she's "Pats".
Becky Eimer 4 years ago
I had to ask myself how did some of these get past the publishers? Getting past that some of these may be self-published - these examples seem to show males in the publishing/editing profession(s) also barely know anything about women...
I zzi 4 years ago
Why on earth are theses thing published or not edited out. How I understand why Men know NOTHING about women....they only listen to over men
Stephanie L Thesing 8 months ago
Many years ago when I was a pre-teen, I snuck away with a couple of my mom’s dirty novels. One described a woman having her period as the blood pouring down her legs and having to soak it all up with several of her boyfriend’s t-shirts. Even at my young age I knew that was a bit much, unless the author planned on her visiting the emergency room for hemorrhaging.
Flo 4132 11 months ago
Guys, please write this down: breasts are not sentient in any way. They do not react to events or emotions. They grow the way they grow and then they stay that way. They might grow a little more during pregnancy and sag a little while ageing, but otherwise, they do nothing, I repeat, nothing. Also, nipples do not get hard when the woman is sexually aroused like your penis does.
Jared West 3 years ago
Males support feminists, you know (not the ones that hate on men like the idiots in the comments, the ones that preach equality to males and females). I feel like this article wont start good feminism, it will start bad feminism. Oh, wait, it already has..
Linda Ostreicher 3 years ago
My favorite thing like this is a movie, not a book. Blade Runner 2049. Must have been written by 10-year-old boys who think a robot could be built that accidentally had the ability to give birth. Like, there is nothing special inside women that makes this happen. Meanwhile, the outsides of women's bodies are everywhere in 50-foot-high holograms.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
She was tall, curvy, with wide, sumptuous thighs and tiny ankles. Her long, flowing hair, the color of a summer day, cascaded over her breasts. She was dandelion fluff, a raw sexual force, leaving nothing behind but the faint taste of chocolate on your lips. And damn, was she good with a knife. As I looked up at her, the knife in my chest, she flipped me off as only the most beautiful of women could.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
I think in some cases, the authors are trying to make their male characters come off as sexist, breast-obsessed, creepy, etc. "Breasts walked by ... he didn't even look at her face." Don't hate the writers; hate the men they describe.
Hazel Cornell 3 years ago (edited)
Sometimes, I think the best thing that could happen to the human race would be some kind of additive to the water that would drop the male sex drive by about 9/10. Then, maybe most of them could finally relate to women as something other than a pair of legs, a pair of tits, or a hole they want to stuff something into.
just your average introvert 3 years ago
i wish my breasts would be more like theirs and stop being breasts that don't move :-(
MALEC GWITTER🤩 3 years ago
😤😑By the Angel, thank Raziel THATS over. A couple of them, I had to go back and just stare at them for a little while to figure out what the HELL is going on. But most of them, I just stared off into the distance trying to figure out how they are so stupid! I hope these men don't describe real women like that. Or HAVE wives for that matter! I would NOT want to be married to an idiot like that! Hmph....sorry for my outburst. I am very passionate on writing and will try to not write at all like them. Dear Raziel they need help🥲
William Secoske 3 years ago
Im 12 and a boy and I know more about women than all of these people combined
CatWoman312 4 years ago (edited)
I’m assuming in most of these books are the product of incels who wrote this while living in their mom’s basement
Liz Sahlin 4 years ago
I am just totally stunned by the fact that no one have reacted before this sh-t went to print!!! Surely there must have been a proofreader, a publisher, a FRIEND, for haven sake, that could have said "Hey mate, I really don´t think it´s such good idea to write that that way..."
Jennifer Fredericksen 4 years ago
#19 is 9 perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty. She’s a woman, not sure why her book was included in this list.
Elizabeth Gardner 4 years ago
Good god I write and I can a describe a woman's body but these blokes have they got it so wrong I am so glad we do not fit their idea of women with BREASTS. I am never aware of my breasts unless showering or dressing and getting them to sit just right in my bra.
Alex_cat lover 3 years ago
F**k off lyone they are just trying to say that they are annoyed
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Latifa Shabnaz 4 years ago
seriously though looking at book writing for proof or disproof or an understanding of the female body, isnt is as stupid as looking at a scifi film for an understanding of the working of quantum mechanics.
Looloo 4 years ago
Lots of people. That's why Stephen King is an extremely rich and successful author maybe?
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TheDemonUnderYourBed 4 years ago
Damn, these men must be lonely enough that they feel the need to say this
Ottmar Straub 4 years ago
I guess that that is not "correct" but I need to say that too many women are not more intelligent. It is a tragedy that most of humans are conditioned so poorly.
Caroline Driver 4 years ago
Apart from the few named examples, most of these are crappy slash fic, self published. Just because you can get a book printed for you, doesn't make you an author
Stan Schmidt 3 years ago
If you wanted to make a point, you could have at least used examples that didn't completely miss it. Most of them aren't even on topic, the few ones that are are all clearly not the authors thoughts, so what's the point of this article?
IVAN KRAWEC 3 years ago
The writer needs to educate herself. “The vaginal wall is, in fact, the clitoris. If you lift the skin off the vagina on the side walls, you get the bulbs of the clitoris — triangular, crescental masses of erectile tissue,” Dr. O’Connell explained in an interview with the BBC in 2006. The clitoris has three major components: the glans clitoris, which is the only visible part of the organ, accounting for “a fifth or less” of the entire structurethe two crura, which extend, like brackets, down from the glans clitoris and deep into the tissue of the vulva, on either sidethe two bulbs of the vestibule, which extend either side of the vaginal orifice (not all researchers agree that the vestibular bulbs have a relation to the clitoris, however; researchers Vincenzo and Giulia Puppo, for instance, argue that the clitoris consists “of the glans, body, and crura” only) In its entirety, the clitoris may reach as many as 7 centimeters in length, if not longer, and the glans makes up about 4c
Teucer T 3 years ago
I could understand a lot of these comments when we're talking about male authors attempting to write from a woman's perspective, just like female authors completely failing while trying to write from a male's perspective... But most of these are the perspective of characters that are flawed or downright warped as part of the plotline... And then there's the complaints of "The Count of Monte Cristo" referring to 36 as "old." The book was published in 1844 when almost every woman was married by the age of 25. 36 would have been considered old for a woman to be unmarried.
Richard Henderson 3 years ago
It’s like no one has heard of metaphor or “the characters point of view”.
Banjo Peppers 4 years ago
I’m sure a lot of these examples are supposed to be funny, or that in context the CHARACTER is supposed to be gross rather than the author.
John Baker 4 years ago
To be fair (and at the risk of incurring the wrath of the BP downvote trolls), most female authors don't do a much better job of writing male characters. They tend to focus more on alleged male personality traits than anatomy, but they're often just as clueless as the guys who apparently think breasts are sentient beings. ;-)
Star 3 years ago
Good point, but it’s less of a problem then young girls and women alike being oversexualized.
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Arenite 4 years ago
These writers need to be named and shamed. Laugh in their faces and tell them what lousy writers they are.
Looloo 4 years ago
Yeah, Stephen King's awful isn't he? Hope that guy never makes it big! 😂
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shado 4 years ago
I always have to chuckle reading about articles that upset women so much for the way they are viewed by many ... I mean guys aren't popping ping-pong balls out of their privates for tips, or waving their junk around in hope that someone will buy them a drink ... ladies, just remember: your own kind most often give you all a bad rep for you actions, activities and just the simple things women take for granted (and NO, I am NOT saying ALL, but definitely a good portion of the female gender) ... so just think on this for a bit before getting your panties in such a bunch over so little ~ 'much ado about nothing'
fogharty 4 years ago (edited)
The Firm by John Grisham: “She was beautiful, much more so than when they were married. At twenty-four she looked her age, but the years were becoming very generous.” She’s practically decrepit!
blugeagua 4 years ago
No. Most of these are clearly just written by men with weird ideas about women's bodies. The obsession with breasts is just too weird.
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blugeagua 4 years ago
Most of these were still written by men who make horrible and misogynist depictions of women. And the romance ones by women, at least they still humanize the men. The ones about women never are.
Load More Replies... Miss Milinky 4 years ago
I am suddenly very aware that my breasts are complete underachievers. Does anyone know how I train them to do even half the things listed in this post? Most of the Boobs here seem to have the intelligence and sentience of the average 4 year old human child. I've just tried, but I can't even get mine to express mild disapproval. :-(
Ms.GB 4 years ago
I'm beginning to think my breasts are just a couple of freeloaders, is there someway I can motivate them into doing something more than just hanging out and getting in the way?
Load More Replies... Samantha Lomb 4 years ago
I am amazed at how many have a tenuous understanding at best of female anatomy and how they anthropomorphize breasts and give them more personality than their female characters.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
The problem here is that women are nothing but sexual objects to these types of men.
Load More Replies... Maeve O’Loughlin 4 years ago
Challenge: describe yourselves in the style of these entries. I myself am tall, dark haired and willowy, with eyes like winter ice and breasts that are furious at the world around me.
Martha Meyer 4 years ago
No, go and describe men in the way these authors describe women. There will be so many confused and frowning penises!
Load More Replies... Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago (edited)
I was the US print buyer for an international glass company (think FAST) My boss's frat brother had started a printing company and wanted our business. Knowing I had no intention of switching companies (and that it as entirely my decision) , my boss set up a meet & greet, just for show. Now, back in the day - I was much thinner and pretty hot. Wearing the company V-neck sweater, I met with Ed. Even before we went into the conference room he was staring at my bust (which has always been a blessing & a curse). As I was introducing myself, he was just staring at my boobs. I asked him a few questions and he literally ANSWERED MY BOOBS. I'd had enough and bent my head down to meet his eyes and said, "They don't speak, Ed". He turned purple, my boss almost fell off his chair laughing & I just calmly left the room. No. He did not get our business.
Nomadus Aureus 4 years ago
Who the ever-loving f**k publishes this crap? HOW did *these* end up in production, on a shelf and then get bought?!
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Everyone who intends to write a physical description needs to attend one autopsy, start to finish, for a person of each gender. You lose the mystique and the stupid pretty quick that way.
Cori 4 years ago
I went to the cadaver lab with my high school anatomy class. Plus I get extra bonus points because a student forgot to properly um... store his cadaver, so I now know we're all just a bunch of sentient beef jerky.
Load More Replies... blugeagua 4 years ago
What is with these men's obsession with female breasts? Among many other problematic stuff. And even little girls. Yuck!
Bubbs Art 4 years ago
I’m with you. Men really have no idea how to write a decent female character without falling for all these tropes listed imo
Load More Replies... Sara Rodrigues 4 years ago (edited)
How far authors go to give visual descriptions and feelings, but instead miss the point entirely and end up writing the most ridiculous things. But we shouldn't just mention the authors, as the books are always reviewed by editors and many others, and not a single person though about questioning these things...
rainforest 4 years ago
I no longer remember which book exactly it was, but Haruki Murakami had a female character who was so poor that she had only one bra and she had to wash it every evening. Wash it every evening! Dude! I'll never forget that xD
Monika Soffronow 4 years ago (edited)
I am certain some people do that. I was at a friends place when her son hollered "Mom, there are no ironed socks!" He was like 17 or 18 and she promptly ironed a pair of socks for him. He didn't know that you could wear socks that had not been ironed. My own teenage son did not know that anyone could/would iron socks and neither did I.
Load More Replies... Charlotte 4 years ago
These make me think of the My Dad Wrote A Porno podcast. This guy discovered his dad has been writing erotica for years and is genuinely confused how he was ever conceived! It’s comedy gold - very much NSFW and also NSF Driving, as you’ll laugh so much you’ll crash!
Michael Se 4 years ago
And shockingly... Rocky Flintstone is a better writer than some of these!
Load More Replies... Jo Choto 4 years ago
I usually come to BP for the feel-goods. Today I'm feeling really angry. So today I'm going to focus on describing the protagonist in my novel in ways that won't make people want to claw their eyes and brains out.
Channon Doughty 4 years ago
The first example you use is not an invention of Min Jin Lee. Rather it is a very clever reference to long-held, oft told rumor that a particular champagne glass was molded from Marie Antionette's breast. If you've ever seen anything set in the early 1900's, they were probably drinking champagne or cocktails from one of those glasses. It's hysterical, but most likely untrue. Champagne-...f4cf5a.jpg
Glory The Rainwing 3 years ago (edited)
They also think boobs are: (______😡______) (______😡_____)
Load More Replies... Kevin Hickey 4 years ago
I loved Stephen King as a teenager, and I still do. But re-reading him as an adult is pretty cringey. Every single female character is described anatomically.
WildBerry 4 years ago
Agreed. I can't re-read his old stuff and his new stuff is far too wordy. Looks like his son, the author Joe Hill, is a chip off the old block with the wordiness too.
Load More Replies... Zenozenobee 4 years ago
You know what? France is on lockdown again, l needed a good laugh, this trend overkilled it for me. Thank you so much for the laugh
ispeak catanese 4 years ago
The comments on this post certainly improved the idiotic excerpts!
Marilyn Bojanowski 4 years ago
This makes my breasts laugh with toothy smiles, the left slightly more expressive than the other as my cleavage juts out in disgust. They talk amongst themselves in my bra, wondering if we should educate men. My right insists that the men of the world become competent, while the left argues that we wouldn't have as much reason to laugh at them. With which of my intelligent breasts do you agree?
Kelley Baltierra 4 years ago
I have to wonder if there's an equally bad women writing men ... I mean really, why should it be so one sided?
Alex_cat lover 3 years ago
There is some woman but some men think think that they are the dominant gender so usaly it’s men
Load More Replies... *sigh*, The Yellow Teletubby 4 years ago
Reading through this post was just... PAINFULLY hilarious
EchoRise 3 years ago
Why is it that I’m offended. I’m not like anything these idiots are writing about. I am in middle/high school and my breasts started developing in 3rd grade. Yet I seem to be offended. Most likely because I just kinda feel like men don’t pay attention to us and just our body. Like they see us as objects. I took a genius class. It was about the feminine and male genius and it wad incredibly enlightening. Women are supposed to protect the man’s heart and men are supposed to protect the woman. You should take one of those classes. It’s actually really helpful.
Tulasidharan V I 3 years ago
Even as a man I cringed at the utter ridiculous paragraphs,who writes such books??
Diane Aguilar 4 years ago
FYI, Michael Crichton studied to be a medical doctor but never actually practiced, just leapt into writing as a career. Which probably explains why he was able to get biological details about women so perfectly, and why I really wish he were still around to publish more novels. RIP.
Idk Katniss Potter 4 years ago
I hate how women are stereotyped like this and are a sexual object for men to observe.
Daniel (ShadowDrakken) 4 years ago
This is as hilarious as it is horrific. We need the same thread for female authors talking about men. Romance novels are just as f'n ludicrous XD
Dorothy Cloud 3 years ago
I read the first 4 or 5. And as a female, I am just so offended. Are the male writers unmarried, virgins that they really know so little about women. And as I noted above, where are the proof readers? They must also be in the same category.!!
Fred and George Weasley 4 years ago
what the actual hell is wrong with men? why do they even WRITE this into their books?
Celtic Pirate Queen 4 years ago
James Patterson's "Murder Club" reads like he's never known any women in his life. Um, women who have been friends for over 20 years DO NOT have such stilted and formal conversations. And even though my best friend prefers to be called "Patricia", when we're alone she's "Pats".
Becky Eimer 4 years ago
I had to ask myself how did some of these get past the publishers? Getting past that some of these may be self-published - these examples seem to show males in the publishing/editing profession(s) also barely know anything about women...
I zzi 4 years ago
Why on earth are theses thing published or not edited out. How I understand why Men know NOTHING about women....they only listen to over men
Stephanie L Thesing 8 months ago
Many years ago when I was a pre-teen, I snuck away with a couple of my mom’s dirty novels. One described a woman having her period as the blood pouring down her legs and having to soak it all up with several of her boyfriend’s t-shirts. Even at my young age I knew that was a bit much, unless the author planned on her visiting the emergency room for hemorrhaging.
Flo 4132 11 months ago
Guys, please write this down: breasts are not sentient in any way. They do not react to events or emotions. They grow the way they grow and then they stay that way. They might grow a little more during pregnancy and sag a little while ageing, but otherwise, they do nothing, I repeat, nothing. Also, nipples do not get hard when the woman is sexually aroused like your penis does.
Jared West 3 years ago
Males support feminists, you know (not the ones that hate on men like the idiots in the comments, the ones that preach equality to males and females). I feel like this article wont start good feminism, it will start bad feminism. Oh, wait, it already has..
Linda Ostreicher 3 years ago
My favorite thing like this is a movie, not a book. Blade Runner 2049. Must have been written by 10-year-old boys who think a robot could be built that accidentally had the ability to give birth. Like, there is nothing special inside women that makes this happen. Meanwhile, the outsides of women's bodies are everywhere in 50-foot-high holograms.
Pumpkin Spice 3 years ago
She was tall, curvy, with wide, sumptuous thighs and tiny ankles. Her long, flowing hair, the color of a summer day, cascaded over her breasts. She was dandelion fluff, a raw sexual force, leaving nothing behind but the faint taste of chocolate on your lips. And damn, was she good with a knife. As I looked up at her, the knife in my chest, she flipped me off as only the most beautiful of women could.
Daniel Marsh 3 years ago
I think in some cases, the authors are trying to make their male characters come off as sexist, breast-obsessed, creepy, etc. "Breasts walked by ... he didn't even look at her face." Don't hate the writers; hate the men they describe.
Hazel Cornell 3 years ago (edited)
Sometimes, I think the best thing that could happen to the human race would be some kind of additive to the water that would drop the male sex drive by about 9/10. Then, maybe most of them could finally relate to women as something other than a pair of legs, a pair of tits, or a hole they want to stuff something into.
just your average introvert 3 years ago
i wish my breasts would be more like theirs and stop being breasts that don't move :-(
MALEC GWITTER🤩 3 years ago
😤😑By the Angel, thank Raziel THATS over. A couple of them, I had to go back and just stare at them for a little while to figure out what the HELL is going on. But most of them, I just stared off into the distance trying to figure out how they are so stupid! I hope these men don't describe real women like that. Or HAVE wives for that matter! I would NOT want to be married to an idiot like that! Hmph....sorry for my outburst. I am very passionate on writing and will try to not write at all like them. Dear Raziel they need help🥲
William Secoske 3 years ago
Im 12 and a boy and I know more about women than all of these people combined
CatWoman312 4 years ago (edited)
I’m assuming in most of these books are the product of incels who wrote this while living in their mom’s basement
Liz Sahlin 4 years ago
I am just totally stunned by the fact that no one have reacted before this sh-t went to print!!! Surely there must have been a proofreader, a publisher, a FRIEND, for haven sake, that could have said "Hey mate, I really don´t think it´s such good idea to write that that way..."
Jennifer Fredericksen 4 years ago
#19 is 9 perfect strangers by Liane Moriarty. She’s a woman, not sure why her book was included in this list.
Elizabeth Gardner 4 years ago
Good god I write and I can a describe a woman's body but these blokes have they got it so wrong I am so glad we do not fit their idea of women with BREASTS. I am never aware of my breasts unless showering or dressing and getting them to sit just right in my bra.
Alex_cat lover 3 years ago
F**k off lyone they are just trying to say that they are annoyed
Load More Replies... Latifa Shabnaz 4 years ago
seriously though looking at book writing for proof or disproof or an understanding of the female body, isnt is as stupid as looking at a scifi film for an understanding of the working of quantum mechanics.
Looloo 4 years ago
Lots of people. That's why Stephen King is an extremely rich and successful author maybe?
Load More Replies... TheDemonUnderYourBed 4 years ago
Damn, these men must be lonely enough that they feel the need to say this
Ottmar Straub 4 years ago
I guess that that is not "correct" but I need to say that too many women are not more intelligent. It is a tragedy that most of humans are conditioned so poorly.
Caroline Driver 4 years ago
Apart from the few named examples, most of these are crappy slash fic, self published. Just because you can get a book printed for you, doesn't make you an author
Stan Schmidt 3 years ago
If you wanted to make a point, you could have at least used examples that didn't completely miss it. Most of them aren't even on topic, the few ones that are are all clearly not the authors thoughts, so what's the point of this article?
IVAN KRAWEC 3 years ago
The writer needs to educate herself. “The vaginal wall is, in fact, the clitoris. If you lift the skin off the vagina on the side walls, you get the bulbs of the clitoris — triangular, crescental masses of erectile tissue,” Dr. O’Connell explained in an interview with the BBC in 2006. The clitoris has three major components: the glans clitoris, which is the only visible part of the organ, accounting for “a fifth or less” of the entire structurethe two crura, which extend, like brackets, down from the glans clitoris and deep into the tissue of the vulva, on either sidethe two bulbs of the vestibule, which extend either side of the vaginal orifice (not all researchers agree that the vestibular bulbs have a relation to the clitoris, however; researchers Vincenzo and Giulia Puppo, for instance, argue that the clitoris consists “of the glans, body, and crura” only) In its entirety, the clitoris may reach as many as 7 centimeters in length, if not longer, and the glans makes up about 4c
Teucer T 3 years ago
I could understand a lot of these comments when we're talking about male authors attempting to write from a woman's perspective, just like female authors completely failing while trying to write from a male's perspective... But most of these are the perspective of characters that are flawed or downright warped as part of the plotline... And then there's the complaints of "The Count of Monte Cristo" referring to 36 as "old." The book was published in 1844 when almost every woman was married by the age of 25. 36 would have been considered old for a woman to be unmarried.
Richard Henderson 3 years ago
It’s like no one has heard of metaphor or “the characters point of view”.
Banjo Peppers 4 years ago
I’m sure a lot of these examples are supposed to be funny, or that in context the CHARACTER is supposed to be gross rather than the author.
John Baker 4 years ago
To be fair (and at the risk of incurring the wrath of the BP downvote trolls), most female authors don't do a much better job of writing male characters. They tend to focus more on alleged male personality traits than anatomy, but they're often just as clueless as the guys who apparently think breasts are sentient beings. ;-)
Star 3 years ago
Good point, but it’s less of a problem then young girls and women alike being oversexualized.
Load More Replies... Arenite 4 years ago
These writers need to be named and shamed. Laugh in their faces and tell them what lousy writers they are.
Looloo 4 years ago
Yeah, Stephen King's awful isn't he? Hope that guy never makes it big! 😂
Load More Replies... shado 4 years ago
I always have to chuckle reading about articles that upset women so much for the way they are viewed by many ... I mean guys aren't popping ping-pong balls out of their privates for tips, or waving their junk around in hope that someone will buy them a drink ... ladies, just remember: your own kind most often give you all a bad rep for you actions, activities and just the simple things women take for granted (and NO, I am NOT saying ALL, but definitely a good portion of the female gender) ... so just think on this for a bit before getting your panties in such a bunch over so little ~ 'much ado about nothing'
fogharty 4 years ago (edited)
The Firm by John Grisham: “She was beautiful, much more so than when they were married. At twenty-four she looked her age, but the years were becoming very generous.” She’s practically decrepit!
blugeagua 4 years ago
No. Most of these are clearly just written by men with weird ideas about women's bodies. The obsession with breasts is just too weird.
Load More Replies... blugeagua 4 years ago
Most of these were still written by men who make horrible and misogynist depictions of women. And the romance ones by women, at least they still humanize the men. The ones about women never are.
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