I love writing female characters. Men are great, and I enjoy writing them a lot, but there's so much you can do with a female character.
I get so sick of people who are basically just saying, "I don't like this woman because she is with my man." If they made an effort to identify with the woman, they'd get far closer to the man of their choice than they would by writing him as gay.
I think they sometimes forget that the man is fictional and would not be with them even if he weren't with the woman of their choice.
In Steele fandom, I have met people who call Laura manipulative, cruel, unfaithful and neurotic and underneath it all is this adolescent jealousy, "She smells, because the boy I like, likes her."
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branchandroot
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Date: 2008-02-22 03:37 am (UTC)I get so sick of people who are basically just saying, "I don't like this woman because she is with my man." If they made an effort to identify with the woman, they'd get far closer to the man of their choice than they would by writing him as gay.
I think they sometimes forget that the man is fictional and would not be with them even if he weren't with the woman of their choice.
In Steele fandom, I have met people who call Laura manipulative, cruel, unfaithful and neurotic and underneath it all is this adolescent jealousy, "She smells, because the boy I like, likes her."