"Writing Strong Women = Writing a Man with Boobs" What?!?
Came across a comment that I couldn't work out on Scans_daily the other day,
"I almost want to agree. It doesn't help that when Rucka writes a strong woman he tends to just write a man then throw boobs on her."
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1199225.html?#cutid1
Aside from the comment itself being stupid, it got me thinking.
In various places they've mentioned women in fiction being written differently to men, in the Jack Nicholson movie 'As Good As It Gets' for example, but when I'm writing I didn't really think about it.
Does it mean I'm writing all my characters as guys or something? I'm confused, maybe someone out there can explain it to me better.
How are women written differently from men? Or was that poster just being a sexist jerk, assuming that women are only written like women if they're talking about dresses and makeup 24/7?
"I almost want to agree. It doesn't help that when Rucka writes a strong woman he tends to just write a man then throw boobs on her."
http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1199225.html?#cutid1
Aside from the comment itself being stupid, it got me thinking.
In various places they've mentioned women in fiction being written differently to men, in the Jack Nicholson movie 'As Good As It Gets' for example, but when I'm writing I didn't really think about it.
Does it mean I'm writing all my characters as guys or something? I'm confused, maybe someone out there can explain it to me better.
How are women written differently from men? Or was that poster just being a sexist jerk, assuming that women are only written like women if they're talking about dresses and makeup 24/7?