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Women on TikTok are poking fun at the oversexualised way that men write about female characters doing everyday tasks to highlight the issues with male gaze.
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What we would do without the marriage plot? It is an essential literary device, a pop culture stand-by, and a map for the lives of so many people.
An engraving of Charlotte Bronte after the original painting by Chappel.
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The marriage plot is a literary term for the happy-ever-after storyline that sprung up with the advent of the middle-class novel in the late 18th century, when romantic love moved from being a courtly affair, set aside for knights and ladies only, to being something available to the masses. A sort of trickle-down effect of the heart.
In contemporary culture we know it as the happy ending, the credit-roll moment when the lovers have sorted through their obstacles and misunderstandings and are left clasping each other.
Me: doctor, I think I’m depressed
Doc: what are your symptoms?
Me: lifts top
Honestly, this constant referral back to the female body in instances where it doesn’t make much sense to, just proves that male authors have a default setting of… incredibly horny. Plus, it shows how men write for other men instead of detailing authentic experiences for women to enjoy, and exposes just how little these authors know about how the female body works or what women desire.
Of course, this is a generalisation. There have been many male authors who have been able to set aside the horniness, and write about women in respectful, and anatomically correct, ways. But the world just never seems to be in short supply of horrific excerpts of men writing about women with only two things on their mind: titties and vagina.