r/menwritingwomen

[Mortal Engines] by [Philip Reeve] (2001)

After all, why not spend a whole YA novel exploring your 16yo heroine, who has facial disfigurements caused by a fight with a bad guy, and building her up as traumatised and dissociating and skilful and resourceful and stubborn and determined and grieving and generally having an independent existence of which her physical appearance is maybe #97 on her list of priorities, and then pull out this corker in the final lines of the book.

"We've both done terrible things to survive, and you're not a hero, but I don't look pretty!"

u/PsychologicalLayer57 — 3 days ago
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Sakura fans claim the anime adaptation ruined her writing, but this is Kishimoto’s own description of her, compared to Naruto and Sasuke's it shows she was always going to be a writing failure

u/Own_Extreme_422 — 11 days ago

"The heat of the kiss put Lucie into a state of vaginal zen" Frank Thilliez, La Chambre des Morts

The quote in the title is a literal translation of a passage in a book I'm reading. It’s a highly successful French thriller, and to be fair, the style is just generally awful, not just when he writes about a woman. If you're wondering, the sentence is about a kiss on her cheek.

u/NomNomGalaxy — 11 days ago

[Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said by Philip K. Dick, 1974] - A woman’s reaction to being told she looks younger than she is

Also featuring the main character’s take on why the same woman would not want to be touched by him.

u/wayjanes — 14 days ago