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A third option is balance: Write that scene as you will, but elsewhere in the story ensure you show the opposite of what you worry about: Show a strong woman help a weakened male. Or show this same...
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2019-12-19T22:13:16Z (almost 5 years ago)
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2019-12-08T07:36:54Z (almost 5 years ago)
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A third option is balance: Write that scene as you will, but elsewhere in the story ensure you show the opposite of what you worry about: Show a strong woman help a weakened male. Or show this **same** female eventually help the **same** male that helped her, or some other male. A single instance does not create a prejudice. Flipping a coin for the genders of who helps, and who needs help, a male helping a female is as equally likely as any other combination. Which means with zero bias in the world, males would still help females. If in your book as a whole, it is always men that are strong and women that are weak, then you are naturally biased, your mind is in a straight jacket if you cannot think of any plausible reason a normal woman can be the strong one and a normal male the weak one needing protection. Find a way to achieve balance.
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2017-12-31T05:14:51Z (almost 7 years ago)
Original score: 10