drst:
Writing teachers: Write what you know
Girls: write what they know
The entire world forever: Ugh stop with your self-insert Mary Sue fics/cozy domestic chick lit/depiction of romantic relationships/female friendships/no one wants this/this isnβt *real* literature
Meanwhile portrayals of dudes in genre literature are basically like:
Genre literary establishment: Yup seems totally legit
Never has anything so perfectly captured this
Like clockwork, I have received my first reblog implying that if the world is yelling at the women writers then itβs their own fault for not being imaginative enough π π π π
Ugh.
So much this.