/lit/ - Literature

>>19917490
Board outsider, please excuse mentioning heretical things to lit.

I think part of OP is referring to when reading dramatic novels, comparing Greg Bear and the likes of the average sci-fi pseudo-nonfic writer (tending to be male) to modern average female literature like 50 Shades of Gray.

One item to partially describe OP's feelings is a problem with the heavy emphasis on a single character's plot, versus making an entire world, and the best illustration would be Code Geass versus Noragami. Code Geass had heavy plot going on AROUND the character, each one had gigantic amounts of investment, as if the writers were imagining the outer world's impact with respect to the character, rather than the character's impact on the outer world. Noragami focuses on a personal narrative around an obscure god, all the actions, history, and dialogue illustrate something about the character as the prominent trait.

Personally to get all women to think like Karen Travess would require strain, different expectations, the expectation to provide to the family as prominent, to have an upbringing with the same expectations of a boy, supposedly this might break them, but I am willing to try. A few broken people because they didn't fit the mold is acceptable.

I don't think western women would like what I'm proposing though, as the upbringing to bring about someone like a japanese woman would give them as many authentic suicidal thoughts as men...
>Picrel

Good female writers exist, they're just much more rare