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 it’s written very much like the dude writing it wants to fuck.her. It’s off-putting tbh
Not gonna lie, I can’t 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 people’s issue with it, and reading it to her again, she said and I quote:
“I can’t 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.”
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. I’m not saying my mom’s opinion is somehow the “true” opinion or something. But I do often ask for her opinion because she’s calm-headed and thinks logically.
I couldn’t see the big issue with the excerpt. I couldn’t see why it was off-putting. I still can’t. I’m not getting the feeling that the author is trying to describe a sexually attractive woman. I mean, for god’s 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 narrator’s body. And frankly, I describe my characters (be they from my original stories or fanfiction stories) in great detail too. Whether it’s a male or female perspective. And I don’t think that’s wrong or automatically means I, or any other authors, are trying to make the described gender feel uncomfortable, attacked or sexualized.
There’s nothing wrong with describing a fictional character’s body in detail. And the author didn’t overly sexualize his character. Not that I could see at least.
