Brasyl, by Ian McDonald (there are more like this in the book)
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  • 1 points qualityvote2

    Dear u/SilkieBug, the readers agree, this man has written a woman badly!

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  • 314 points guerney2000

    Ok that one was completely unexpected

    "Uh huh, ok, telescope... protection from downpour... ok, oiling... hair-fine mechanisms... ok but where is the badly written- what the fuck"

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    159 points Cool_Run_6619

    Ok, you didn't need to point out her boobs that's weir....A CHILDS WHAT?!?

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    36 points Scorpy-yo

    “He pointed at a female (who had some boobs by the way).”

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    27 points dasdeej1

    Exactly my thoughts process as well

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    11 points Gsuegg

    Same

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  • 170 points Traroten

    Why do we need to know that her breasts are budding? Couldn't you just write something like "she was 11"?

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    39 points Several-Adeptness-83

    Yeah like it's honestly only relevant if the character herself is noticing them and even then you have to ask why you're writing it. This is just...oy

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  • 163 points Civil-Letterhead8207

    Not only is this a good example of a man writing a woman, it’s a great example of piss-poor writing. Does the girl have a child with budding breasts?

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    58 points this_is_nunya

    She’s obviously some kind of zombie/ cannibal/ necromancer, since she carries a child’s torso around with her at all times (on which to perform dark experiments such as growing a spare pair of breasts)…

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    29 points Ceres_The_Cat

    This writing is so odd that, forgetting to look at the subredddit name, I thought it was a puzzle. I was looking at the lighter colored dots and trying to figure out the name of the celestial body hidden in the text.

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    16 points Civil-Letterhead8207

    A celestial body with budding breasts, apparently.

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    6 points RosebushRaven

    Now I’m picturing a star with literal tit-buds sticking out of it at random spots. 🤣

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    17 points hangingfiredotnet

    This is why we need to teach sentence diagramming.

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    3 points nixtracer

    This is why Thog the Barbarian Literary Critic is a thing.

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  • 70 points BaseHitToLeft

    Rare example of "you know what, maybe this time just tell and don't worry about showing"

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  • 61 points Huggable_Hork-Bajir

    That was so out of nowhere! And completely unnecessary too!

    The fuck is wrong with you Ian?

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  • 47 points SaladPuzzleheaded625

    Come on wtf dude

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  • 36 points Yozo-san

    ... If the first thing you do after seeing a child is looking at their breasts you should see a professional. God that's disgusting as fuck

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  • 65 points chuckedeggs

    This one is really sick. Is that what men actually see when they look at an 11 year old? I see a baby!

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    30 points guerney2000

    Men? No, generally not, I'd say.

    Now, Ian on the other hand...

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    19 points chuckedeggs

    Such a creep

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    25 points guerney2000

    And all he had to do was to end the sentence at "the front row" and it would have been completely fine, but no, he just had to continue...

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  • 34 points hummun323

    The fucking what, mate?

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  • 29 points silicondream

    you could have just told us that she had red hair or was wearing overalls or something

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  • 29 points SpookyPumpkinkid34

    https://preview.redd.it/db3cpmnxf75g1.jpeg?width=431&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ae9187125427eaf6b5bd89ed3e8f2d32319ede4b

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  • 21 points sususu_ryo

    why the need to jumpscare the reader with character's sudden hyperfocus on a child's breasts, dear god!

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  • 35 points BrassUnicorn87

    Did his stylus make her grow boobs? Wtf is this?

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    11 points sleepysock98

    That was how I read it

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    16 points kenporusty

    The worst titty fairy ever

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  • 15 points sorry-i-was-reading

    Ew, gross 🤮

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  • 16 points LatinBotPointTwo

    So the girl has a child with budding breasts on their torso.

    The writing isn't just creepy but shitty, too.

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  • 13 points WhereasParticular867

    I feel like an isekai protagonist, and this author's creepiness just hit me like a truck.

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    1 points ill_change_it

    I feel like December Holiday, and this author's creepiness just hit me like a truck.

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  • 11 points Dragonssssssssssss

    "Child's torso"

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  • 7 points fandom10

    It was going fine, and then it just lost the plot so badly it might as well have been an mst3k movie

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  • 6 points FightmeLuigibestgirl

    the fuck

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  • 4 points ReversedFrog

    One thing that strikes me is how often these badly written women (or in far too many cases, like this one, girls) are found in prose that's also badly written.

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  • 4 points BabserellaWT

    Side note, I love using this font so much. Always opt for it when it’s offered.

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  • 5 points wigglee1004

    Is that font for dyslexia? I have it too.

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    3 points SilkieBug

    Yes! I have headaches when reading without it. 

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  • 4 points nanny2359

    legit jumpscare, wtaf

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  • 4 points cuteslenz69

    https://preview.redd.it/vak4tg3u0l5g1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=888ff724f3e42386065d25873f2f7b9a75c85fdb

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  • 4 points effing_usernames2_

    Reminds me of Community: “Yes, you, in the boobs.”

    At least in context the character was an adult and the guy was meant to be a terrible teacher

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  • 8 points EmpatheticBadger

    I remember the men who looked at me like that when I was 11

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  • 3 points atticdoor

    Out of interest, what font is it? It's bottom-heavy, is that to aid readability?

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    6 points SilkieBug

    OpenDyslexic, I use the Calibre program to format ebooks with it. 

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  • 2 points lemon-gundam

    Christ on a bike, that’s nasty. Fucking PDFs can’t help but tell on themselves 🤢

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  • 1 points Infamous-Plastic-260

    jail, straight to jail

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  • 1 points Cheeslord2

    Stop budding in class!

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  • 1 points notveryhidden

    What do telescopes have to do with women? Right a telescope kink?

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  • -2 points MrGruntsworthy

    I'm currently awaiting an agent's response to an R&R I submitted, I promise my female protag & deuterag aren't described like this...

    I'm right-leaning, but even I don't write like this. I'll never understand what drives people to write a sentence like that.

    Especially about a child, what the actual fuck

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