boxfaery replied to your post: lets-stay-o-k: kittykillall: pyschoticbiotic: ...
@airasora I think the problem is this is meant to be from the girls perspective but itās written very much like the dude writing it wants to fuck.her. Itās off-putting tbh
Not gonna lie, I canāt see that at all.
I read it to my mom, without explaining much to her. And afterwards I told her a man had written it. She looked like a giant question mark, like what was I even asking her. After explaining peopleās issue with it, and reading it to her again, she said and I quote:
āI canāt hear anything invidious in that. Women love to get angry over something not worth getting angry over. Especially your generation, you love looking for ways to get offended.ā
This is a 61-year-old woman and a feminist. She gets angry just like everyone else when women are made into sexual objects and so forth, but she only gets angry when she feels there is a need to. Iām not saying my momās opinion is somehow theĀ ātrueā opinion or something. But I do often ask for her opinion because sheās calm-headed and thinks logically.
I couldnāt see the big issue with the excerpt. I couldnāt see why it was off-putting. I still canāt. Iām not getting the feeling that the author is trying to describe a sexually attractive woman. I mean, for godās sake, he is giving her what society would deem flaws in her looks.
All I got outta the text was a thorough description of the narratorās body. And frankly, I describe my characters (be they from my original stories or fanfiction stories) in great detail too. Whether itās a male or female perspective. And I donāt think thatās wrong or automatically means I, or any other authors, are trying to make the described gender feel uncomfortable, attacked or sexualized.
Thereās nothing wrong with describing a fictional characterās body in detail. And the author didnāt overly sexualize his character. Not that I could see at least.
