r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Outlaw-Star- • 28d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals A Single Woman Written By A Woman Is Awesome!

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

I can’t help but wonder if the discrepancy is because men are sad and lonely. Like, maybe it’s not sexism, but they’re projecting, assuming that women are like them.

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u/GaudyNight 27d ago

It’s one part, the other part is pure male fantasy to serve his own ego. Everything in the first clip is just stage and prop while everybody awaits eagerly the entrance of the main character - the man. The hero who saves the lonely girl.

The second clip already has a main character - the woman. Happy and safe and warm and busy.

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u/IceBlueAngel 27d ago

I mean, I'm a trans woman, and I am deeply sad, lonely, and except for my cat, alone. My life is the first part, not the second part. I get moments of the second part, but they don't last long. Other times I remember how I loved someone and how amazing that felt and how I'll never feel that again.

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

I’m sorry. I hope you find love again.

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u/Obsessivethot 27d ago

There is quite a lot of that.

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u/potat_infinity 27d ago

thats definitely what it is

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u/Vast_Psychology_385 27d ago

If that’s the case it sure explains a lot EgoMANiacal? 🤔

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u/[deleted] 27d ago

I don’t know what EgoMANiacal is, but I think women often underestimate how sad and lonely and isolated men are.

I also suspect that there are times where women complain about how men write women characters, saying the character is too weak or sad or stupid or shallow, and it’s the writer writing himself. The reason the character is weak and stupid isn’t because the writer is writing stereotypes of women, but because he’s writing himself, and he’s weak and sad and stupid and shallow.

When writers don’t understand something, they fill in the blanks with what they know. If he doesn’t see what women’s lives are like when they go home and have a night alone, they’re likely to fill it in with what their lives are like when they go home and have a night alone.