• Greetings u/Civil-Letterhead8207. This is r/menwritingwomen . It showcases examples of how men who write films, books, TV, and graphic novels characterize women.


    For our Readers: Do these breasts twinkle with excitement? Bosom rising and falling like an empire? Or does it fall flat like pancakes with nipples?

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  • And then honk Connie Willis's breasts on stage at the Hugo Awards....

    I wish I could say that was unbelievable, but sadly, it was all too believable that that asshole would grope a woman on stage.

    Asimov was another groper, to the point where cons started assigning him "minders" to stop him.

    And then, of course, there was Walter Breen.

    Oh cool. Another writer to add to my list of "Yeah I'm okay with not having read any of their work, sounds like they were a disgusting piece of shit."

  • Wouldn’t a man in town, especially a man who says idiotic things like that, just make all the women more feminist?

  • That's an unfortunately short leg on the 'P' in 'picking'.

    You mean it’s NOT a “cotton dicking” town?

  • I can't believe he was Octavia Butler's mentor