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The original was posted on /r/twoxchromosomes by /u/Sanguine_Pup on 2023-09-12 04:18:04.

Writing dialogue for a person you hardly identify with is hard enough, but attempting to create a character from the ground floor up, especially another gender, is very difficult.

It would appear male authors and writers repeat the same mistakes and misconceptions about what runs through a woman’s mind, enough for me to regularly observe women laughing at bad dialogue and immediately recognizing whoever wrote this is not a woman.

What are the greatest hits of men failing to write good woman characters?

The better question is, how does a man begin to understand what it means to be a woman, well enough to write a character that she would find compelling and authentic?