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Originally Posted by Quoth
"I do agree with him that male characters tend to be given a wider range of types and backgrounds than female characters in culture. "
But it's not because women are any less flexible on the roles that can be written.
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Men or women can write good female or male characters in novels or bad ones.
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I agree with this, and with most of what you posted.
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Any limitation of a fictional woman is imaginary.
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This part, however, is only true if we're just talking about writing/creating (and even then it's iffy, as the vast majority of us are influenced by the society we live in,
for example like this).
And: If an author tries to get others to invest in their work (whether that's a publishing house or a film company), they will meet limitations which are very real, and some of those may be different for male and female characters (and male vs female authors, as well as for characters and authors who are LGBT+, and/or not white).
There's also the topic the linked article wrote about
: Criticism. Now, he seems extraordinary fragile -- somehow he feels that feminists are so powerful that any criticism from us, no matter how unfair, will destroy him. But in a stopped-clock-is-right-twice-a-day sense, he is right that female characters will get criticised in ways that are far more seldom for male characters. He even voices some of that gendered criticism himself, when talking about the Star Wars character Rey.