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I'm a man. Working on my sci-fi novel. It's meant to be a light-hearted heist caper. My main character is a woman. She's a strong and sassy character based on the women in my life, and the story fo...
#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:26:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/40945 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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Ty_xy
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2019-12-08T10:26:05Z (almost 5 years ago)
I'm a man. Working on my sci-fi novel. It's meant to be a light-hearted heist caper. My main character is a woman. She's a strong and sassy character based on the women in my life, and the story follows all the rules about writing strong female characters. There are no men to save her, and the antagonist in the story is another woman who is her exact opposite. However because the character swears, makes pop culture references and sexually objectifies men, some critics have commented that this makes it seem that it's a female character being written by a man. I'm sure I'm not the only person who has gotten this criticism. Any ideas on how to fix this?
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-01-01T05:01:15Z (almost 6 years ago)
Original score: 70