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Apparently Isaac Asimov is problematic because his works dont have any good female characters. Wow! Have you ever had to put down a book because you couldnt relate with its characters?

>> No.14186876

Some writers had trouble with characters of the opposite sex. There are plenty of female authors who can't write a male character either
>Have you ever had to put down a book because you couldnt relate with its characters
yes

>> No.14186882

>>14186852
she's right, you know

>> No.14186886

>>14186852
Have sex

>> No.14186889

>>14186882
Nah, she's wrong. The next books in the series have female protagonists.

>> No.14186893

>>14186876
>There are plenty of female authors who can't write a male character either
I wouldnt know because i dont read books written by women, and feel none the poorer for it

>> No.14186907

>>14186893
>heh I never even read a woman!
just makes you sound poorly read anon

>> No.14186919
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>>14186907
no it doesnt

>> No.14186922

Jesus Christ women are such obnoxious whiners.
Check out the subreddit r/menwritingwomen, it's like OP's screenshot but every post is like that.

>> No.14186929
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>doesn't realize the Monolith is vagina and the stargate/hotel room are the womb

>> No.14186931

>>14186852
>Have you ever had to put down a book because you couldnt relate with its characters?

Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto.

>> No.14186935
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>>14186852
The best writers are always extremely problematic

>> No.14186945

reminder the following authors are /lit/ core
>Hypatia
>Theano of Crotone
>Diotoma
>Sappho
>Hipparchia of Maroneia
>Aspasia
>Heloïse
>Margery Kempe
>Hildegard von Bingen
>St. Catherine of Siena
>St. Angela of Foligno
>Julian of Norwich
>St. Catherine of Siena
>St. Theresa
>Mary Wollstonecraft
>Mary Shelley
>George Eliot
>Simone de Beauvoir
>Hannah Arendt
>Valerie Solanas
>Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe
>Simone Weil
>Martha Nussbaum
>Ursula K. Le Guin
>Margaret Atwood
>Shirley Jackson
>Zadie Smith
>Sadie Plant

>> No.14186955

>>14186889
To be fair, most women don't like those either. Mainly thanks to Asimov's use of flat affect and disdain for flowery prose. Conveying emotion through character's actions, rather than their language is pretty much female readers kryptonite.

>> No.14186956

>>14186945
Atwood is reddit core. Swap that for Munro and you have a deal.

>> No.14186957

>>14186929
She’s actually correct.
>aaaaaagh the ineffable horror of violence that is so innate to man
>aaaaaaaagh the paradoxical juxtaposition of the majestic technological wonders produced by war and the residual primality of the man creating it who must perpetually transpose his ape-brain onto the fabric of reality
Cringe

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>> No.14186978

>>14186956
>he doesn't remember when Atwood called out metoo and modern feminism, comparing them to the Salem witch trials
she's actually based, you are confusing her with that propaganda show they rigged out of one of her novels

>> No.14187064

>>14186852
>Who is Susan Calvin

>> No.14188029

>>14186893
Frankenstein was good