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Sex or gender are just a small part of who your characters are. If you take all the female characters from contemporary literature together, they don't have many things in common. As with all thin...
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2019-12-08T06:24:12Z (over 4 years ago)
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2019-12-08T06:24:12Z (over 4 years ago)
Sex or gender are just a small part of who your characters are. If you take all the female characters from contemporary literature together, they don't have many things in common. As with all things, **differences between the sexes are much smaller than differences within each of the sexes**. My favourite example is body height: the smallest man and the tallest man are almost a meter apart, while the average man and the average woman only differ in about 10 cm. And for almost any given man, there is a woman who is taller than he is, despite the fact that women are smaller on average. If you look at individuals, average gender/sex differences are meaningless. Your male viewpoint character should not be defined by some idea of maleness, but by what kind of person you want in your story. Simply, # stop thinking of him as a man and instead consider his function in your story.
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2018-11-28T13:07:43Z (over 5 years ago)
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