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I think, in practice, it's a rare male author who can really nail a female perspective. And nothing hurls me out of my reading more than hitting a female viewpoint that is a collage of stereotypes cobbled together by a male author who apparently didn't think he needed to challenge his own assumptions about women while writing.
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Ahh but isn't it often entertaining when they try.
I have found that many female author's attempts to portray a female character of another culture/age group/social status/challenged etc. to be just as cliched/flat/unrealistic/one sided/stereotyped, as a man's viewpoint.
If the book entertains or captures my interest to the point that I actually finish it,(and usually I do finish at least 70% of the books I start), then the author has done his or her job from my perspective.
If everything was written exactly to my tastes and standards, a lot of other readers would be most annoyed, maybe me among them.
Helen