We weren’t necessarily saying only from point a to b, it’s just (and this applies to all fantasy adventure,) sometimes I want to just read about a character surpassing an unbreakable wall with the special effects of fantasy. Like This.
), but there are stories written by authors who were expressing their own experiences from transitioning. Plain and simple: it's not all written from and for wankers.
Most likely. But also, it seems to not be an uncommon thing to think about ‘what if’s’.
Situations are temporary. You can eventually be comfortable with a Situation or resolve it. This could be getting a house, inventing modern comforts, but suddenly being another gender is a lot harder to brush over. And genderless means something like a slime, but those typically focus on the systems or something and are basically screwed as far as romance go. Take TenSura for instance, there are characters interested romantically in Rimuru, but good luck having children or to even get his attention since he no longer has a sex drive.
Different vibe though. In that case they’d still be ‘straight’ mentally if they still hold fast to their male sense. But GL because of body.
Having horns or a new tail, or the MC being a bit of a herbivore towards sex is not quite the same as having whole new biology and not being used to it yet
Rather verbose for what amounts to, “straight man becomes woman, stays interested in girls.” On the flip side, A lesbian becomes a man, so they suddenly decide to start being interested in men instead? Homosexuality is relative to your biology.You have a physical gender in strike zone, your gender swapping probably won’t change it. Especially when they’re Bi, for it won’t matter. Which is usually when Futanari gets involved.
Fair, basically all gender bender stories are either esthetic, self-fantasy, or a beginner writer trying to write a female character they understand. I have yet to read a gender bender about gender dysphoria.
Could be something other than slimes, and I know turning into a female would a permanent thing always effecting the character, but many gender bender stories only partially talk about it.
Partially disagree people vary a lot, (this type of character wouldn’t be isekaid,) what about insanely sheltered people, or people whose whole live have been controlled, like cult kids.
I've heard you can thank MrSimple for that migration.
Idk but you’re right! I tried to make other genres on this sight but nobody liked them. It’s more of like a follow these stories or nobody will read them aside from a select few.
. It frustrates me so much, and I end up (almost) never writing females because of this. When I do, I don't enjoy it... sucks all joy out of writing for me. Like an OCD..
I know that I'm doing an asshole move, pulling this out of context and misinterpreting this. However, males are easier to write. Somehow this sounds horribly wrong.Most answers here seem to cover the ground entirely ^^. I just wanted to add something specific about my reasons for never writing female protagonists...
Personally, I have long decided I don't enjoy writing female characters (and I am a woman myself). I overthink things and I become paralyzed by futility because I come from some university rhetoric that grilled into me that all female characters follow only 3 archetypes: madonna, whore, "Not lIke tHe OtHeR GiRls" (thus usually a honorary male) and it's impossible to write one outside of this cultural paradigm.
I don't know if I disagree with it or not, really. But I can't unsee it no matter what I do
Thus, I feel much more at home writing males. They're so easy to write, lol, and I can focus with them on some other topic and themes in my stories rather than obsess over the above-mentioned paradigm.
Thus, if you say that somebody doesn't know how to write females and resorts to GB females due to not caring/wanting to learn enough -- that's not necessarily true. They might be just like me. I learned a bit too much about the perception of female characters in fiction and it has literally horrified me back to writing solely about males
Okay, thanks for clarifying! It's mostly just the words "excuse" that really made me think that way. Other than that, yeah... it's not my cup of tea, either. It never will be. I'll never like reincarnation (unless it makes sense, also known as Hollow Knight). Hopefully, the trend will go away. Then I'll have my coffee and everything will be alright.
I was made to write a lot of men as a kid, so I found it nigh impossible to go back to writing women when the time came. I made a lot of really shallow women when I tried, so I avoided it as much as possible.Most answers here seem to cover the ground entirely ^^. I just wanted to add something specific about my reasons for never writing female protagonists...
Personally, I have long decided I don't enjoy writing female characters (and I am a woman myself). I overthink things and I become paralyzed by futility because I come from some university rhetoric that grilled into me that all female characters follow only 3 archetypes: madonna, whore, "Not lIke tHe OtHeR GiRls" (thus usually a honorary male) and it's impossible to write one outside of this cultural paradigm.
I don't know if I disagree with it or not, really. But I can't unsee it no matter what I do
Thus, I feel much more at home writing males. They're so easy to write, lol, and I can focus with them on some other topic and themes in my stories rather than obsess over the above-mentioned paradigm.
Thus, if you say that somebody doesn't know how to write females and resorts to GB females due to not caring/wanting to learn enough -- that's not necessarily true. They might be just like me. I learned a bit too much about the perception of female characters in fiction and it has literally horrified me back to writing solely about males
I'm confusedI think it depends on who you talk to. It's not strange if some people think that one gender is easier to write than the other; there are some other people who think the opposite.
For me there is also the hopelessly reclusive social introvert.
You're not alone on that one.
That's why I wrote that I may be the one misinterpreting this.
I think it depends on who you talk to. It's not strange if some people think that one gender is easier to write than the other; there are some other people who think the opposite.
For me there is also the hopelessly reclusive social introvert.
Although I tend to write self-insert (ish), although that has its own problems.
The concept of writing a character is always subjective regardless of whatever gender they might be. I, personally, want to write a story involving a character of neither gender. I've yet to touch that because I know how it would start and run off but not where to go with it in the end.