Completely redid Faye’s carrd. Going feral now.
He knelt to the ground and pulled out a ring，
And said，
Marry me Ysayle you'll never have to be alone...
It was still my friend who paid for this painting! The theme this time is the wedding scene of Ysayle and Estinien.🌹🌹🌹Let's bless this couple.💕🫶🫶
Guess where my friend and I have watermarks.👀
Massimo Listri, Palazzo Reale di Torino, 2007,
C-print mounted to acrylic,
Sight: 48 h × 61 w in (122 × 155 cm)
and my take today is that framing misogynistic writing as an "inability to write female characters" subconsciously takes away most of the blame, implying that women are an alien creature compared to men and that it is no fault of the writer because it's out of their skill set. it's not an inability, not a lack of expertise, it's the simple refusal to consider women as individual people and give them the same depth and grace that comes easily to the writer when they write male characters. it's not that christopher nolan, stephen king, james cameron (and frankly anyone using the argument, both professional and hobbyist; yes, that includes fanfic writers) etc can't write women, it's that they just won't. at that point in time it is a conscious decision driven by the laziness to unpack their misogynistic biases, and should be addressed as such
*sighs in Dorothy L. Sayers* (at the misogynists, not at op!)
“A man once asked me – it is true that it was at the end of a very good dinner, and the compliment conveyed may have been due to that circumstance – how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were by themselves. Was I, by any chance, a member of a large, mixed family with a lot of male friends? I replied that, on the contrary, I was an only child and had practically never seen or spoken to any men of my own age till I was about twenty-five. ‘Well,’ said the man, ‘I shouldn’t have expected a woman [meaning me] to have been able to make it so convincing.’ I replied that I had coped with this difficult problem by making my men talk, as far as possible, like ordinary human beings. This aspect of the matter seemed to surprise the other speaker; he said no more, but took it away to chew it over. One of these days it may quite likely occur to him that women, as well as men, when left to themselves, talk very much like human beings also.”
— “Are Women Human?”, 1938
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