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Ashamed of being straight?
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: dmmb_Mandy on June 18, 2006, 04:05:29 pm ---Oh, and I always wanted to be Batman.
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I always wanted to be Spiderman.
(Batman is the badass, though. ;D)
dmmb_Mandy:
As a child I liked Batman, now as an *adult* I prefer Spiderman. Weird. :D
silkncense:
I'm not sure I got my point across. It's not really what I like or don't like - maybe the examples were misleading. This was truly my point:
--- Quote ---I think it's simply my mind is more hardwired masculine.
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I virtually never feel I am 'on the same page' w/ women. Someone somewhere on a thread asked, "What do women think?" - that could've been me. It's a matter of who I relate to.
And I'd rather be Lara Croft!
ednbarby:
--- Quote from: silkncense on June 19, 2006, 10:47:46 am ---I'm not sure I got my point across. It's not really what I like or don't like - maybe the examples were misleading. This was truly my point:
I virtually never feel I am 'on the same page' w/ women. Someone somewhere on a thread asked, "What do women think?" - that could've been me. It's a matter of who I relate to.
And I'd rather be Lara Croft!
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I'm with you 100% on this one. I don't "get" other women. I think I'd have a very difficult time writing a female character, but I have no trouble writing male ones (all in my head, mind you - I haven't dove into the fanfic pool just yet). I imagine I'd be very much like Diana Ossana in that way - I'd want to write all the male characters' dialogue. I think I just understand the rhythm of men - how they think, how they put into words what they think. It's easy, really - there's nothing false about any of it. In the rare case when a man is false, it bothers me much more than when a woman is I think because I don't expect it - it seems foreign. Ed and I laugh all the time about the basic male thought pattern as being "Sex, sex, food, sex, sleep, sex, work out, sex, sex, work, sex, sex, sex, sex ..." Whereas a woman's is - hell, I don't know what a woman's is because I think like a man. I remember when Ed and I watched "As Good As It Gets" and the woman asked the Jack Nicholson character how he writes women so well, and he says, "I think of a man. Then I take away reason and accountability." We both laughed *way* too hard at that one. It's not that I'm misogynistic - I love my woman friends. Fiercely, in fact. But I honestly wouldn't know what to do with a little girl had I had one instead of a little boy. Unless she was boyish like I was. But if she was a girly-girl who wanted to have her hair pulled back in all kinds of intricate ways and to wear frilly dresses and have a doll collection, I'd be at a total loss.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: ednbarby on June 19, 2006, 11:19:29 am ---I'm with you 100% on this one. I don't "get" other women. I think I'd have a very difficult time writing a female character, but I have no trouble writing male ones (all in my head, mind you - I haven't dove into the fanfic pool just yet). I imagine I'd be very much like Diana Ossana in that way - I'd want to write all the male characters' dialogue. I think I just understand the rhythm of men - how they think, how they put into words what they think. It's easy, really - there's nothing false about any of it. In the rare case when a man is false, it bothers me much more than when a woman is I think because I don't expect it - it seems foreign. Ed and I laugh all the time about the basic male thought pattern as being "Sex, sex, food, sex, sleep, sex, work out, sex, sex, work, sex, sex, sex, sex ..." Whereas a woman's is - hell, I don't know what a woman's is because I think like a man. I remember when Ed and I watched "As Good As It Gets" and the woman asked the Jack Nicholson character how he writes women so well, and he says, "I think of a man. Then I take away reason and accountability." We both laughed *way* too hard at that one. It's not that I'm misogynistic - I love my woman friends. Fiercely, in fact. But I honestly wouldn't know what to do with a little girl had I had one instead of a little boy. Unless she was boyish like I was. But if she was a girly-girl who wanted to have her hair pulled back in all kinds of intricate ways and to wear frilly dresses and have a doll collection, I'd be at a total loss.
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Maybe you could try focusing on yourself as a woman, and create a character from your own experience and perceptions. Scout Finch from To Kill a Mockingbird is boyish girl, and I bet so was Harper Lee. She probably created her from her own experiences.
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