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It's not untrue, though some also get things right. I can't stop recommending children of time, and I love the way the author dealt with gender. It was a good read regardless, but imho he did a great job writing female characters.
Absolutely, some men are very good at writing about (and even from the perspective of) their female characters.
We call those men "good writers".
What I think the pattern is that when you see stuff like that, it's always a male writer doing it. And male editors, in the case of published works, letting it fly.
I agree that it's mostly men doing it. I was more just looking to shoehorn in that book recommendation lol. I will say some female romantasy authors can kind of go the other way. It's mostly a bad writer issue in both cases, and at least the female authors didn't do it in a way that objectifies women for both a primarily male audience and the men in the story.
This kind of gets at the issues I see most bad female authors run into: https://youtu.be/ejklu1OvWFs
They're different pitfalls, but I'm also a getting a little sick of them too.
Really, I think the authors just get horny when writing fiction sometimes. Which is fine like, once, but if there's like, three horny passages, I'm like "ok, please give it a rest."
It's mostly a problem because some writers are just... bad. I'm reading romantasy, I expect some romance, I take issue when it's written like not another teen movie and still takes itself seriously.