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>pick up new book
>female main character
>put down new book
pic related, wtf is wrong with me? I swear I don't have this problem with the classics, I love Jane Eyre, but any book published in the lat 50 years with a woman protagonist I just can't get through. is it over for me bros? How do I get past this? I really wanna read this book

>> No.18472968

Read Rikki Ducornet

>> No.18472975

>>18472965
>Pick up book
>Main character is a Millennial with immigrant parents
Why is this trope so common?

>> No.18472990

>>18472965
Change all the pronouns to he/him as you read (actually edit). Easy fix - plus, now you're an ally.

>> No.18473024

>>18472965
For me it’s not the female characters, it’s the prose that looks and tastes like YA but is marketed as a book for adults. This book and Priory of the Orange Tree both made me queasy for that exact reason. There is nothing wrong with straightforward and plain prose, but there’s something about the new YA style of writing that I find patronizing.

>> No.18473043

>>18472965
The problem with this book isn't female character, but the book being shit. Well, not realy shit shit, but average and tryharding to be another ' ww2 genocide bad' story.
Nothing interesting here, it's absolutely over the top and pretentious.

>> No.18473054

>>18472965
pretend it's a dude who thinks he's a she/her, idk

>> No.18473063
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>>18472975
I wonder who owns the publishers

>> No.18473134

>>18472965
>Mfw writing something with female main character
:|

>> No.18473140

>>18473043
I’m with you. Since 2015 popular fiction has returned to the 17th century and early 20th century mode of writing. Every fictional book now serves a function of instructing acceptable morals and manners. It’s not progressive but regressive. Say what you will about boomers but at least their fiction pushed the envelope of acceptability.

>> No.18473172

>>18473140
I’d also like to add that we’ve lost the concept of a fictional character whose morals don’t align with the authors.

>> No.18473190

>>18473140
Doesn't the return to "socially responsible" works indicate that the tackling of taboo proved ineffective?

>> No.18473192

test

>> No.18473201

>>18473190
Perhaps, but then the question is why that would be the case.

>> No.18473213

>>18472975
White liberal fantasy

>> No.18473246

>>18472965
I have the same problem and I'm a female
I've been trying to actively work against it, but it's pervasive as hell. I didn't have this issue when I was a little kid.

>> No.18473321

>>18473246
Girls don’t have penises anon

>> No.18473377

>>18472965
>I really wanna read this book
Why? Is this some sort of penance or ascetic exercise?

>> No.18473384

>>18473190
Yes. boomers as a generation are a testament to this fact. But what I’m trying to convey is that moral fiction was ineffective as well. Fiction seems to be running in circles.
I would like to note that I am no literature snob. There has been and continues to be fantastic fiction published in all modes which is then ignored by the public at large. I’m speaking only of what is popular culturally in America where fiction has abandoned the human as its center in favor of vague cultural factions (wether it be right or left)

>> No.18473401

>>18473377
youtuber i like recommended it

>> No.18473421

>>18473384
The best analogy I can come up with is every piece of pop fiction feels like tie-in media now instead of the Authors own gestation of current social and cultural factors.

>> No.18473438

>>18472965
>I really wanna read this book
Then read it.

>> No.18473450

>>18473024
Priory was so fucking bad.

>> No.18473616

>pick up a webnovel
>female main character
>realize within 10-20 chapters the "female" main character is just being written as a man with tits and a vagina and if we had swapped out all the pronouns and the couple of scenes talking about dresses it wouldn't even create an "effeminate" male character, just a rather generic one instead.

A Practical Guide to Evil is an interesting concept though.

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>>18472965
>Female lead is an ass-kicking heroine
It goes against human moral intuition anon, your reaction is normal. Stop betraying your true and noble instincts in service of patent cultural degeneracy.