Literary - Writer s Digest writersdigest.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from writersdigest.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.
British thriller ‘Behind Her Eyes’ is the latest best-selling novel to get the Netflix treatment. But is a six-part series really the best format for it?