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Q&A How to write from the male point of view?

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...

posted 6y ago by System‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:24:12Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T06:24:12Z (almost 5 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.
#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2018-11-28T13:07:43Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 10