35 Times A Male Author Proved That They Knew Nothing About Women

Men Writing Women is a subreddit that collects comically absurd portrayals of female characters by male authors, featuring materials from the 1800s to the present. Men dominated publishing for centuries, where they often misrepresented female characters. Meanwhile, women could only publish legally from the late 19th century onwards under their own names. The following submissions display the objectification and stereotypes often present in male-authored works—prepare to encounter some of the most egregious examples below.

#1 Pen Writing Women

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#2 [comic Excerpt] Superman Kissing A 14 Year Old (Superman & Batman: Generations By John Byrne)

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#3 Thought This Sub Would Enjoy This 😂

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#4 [“Everything Men Know About Women” By Knott Mutch]

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#5 I Do Think That Mediaeval Poets Were The Og Men Writing Women

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#6 An Antique Call-Out

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#7 In A Doctor Who Kids Book, Of All Things

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#8 [Drawing Dragons By Sandra Staple] The Dragon Gender Norms

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#9 Actually My Chest T**s T***tily

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#10 Her A*****t Was So Wonderful That She Spent Her Life Looking For Him?! (Love In The Time Of Cholera By Gabriel García Márquez)

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#11 Some Inspiration For Any Aspiring Writers Out There

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#12 Meme I Saw On Facebook

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#13 [gray Matters] By [william Hjortsberg]. Found This In A Retro Book Shop, Opened It To A Random Page And Was Assaulted With This Synonym

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#14 At Age 35, She Can Feel Her Breasts Sag Audibly In The Night. [letters From The Dead By Campbell Black]

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#15 Posted In A Feminine Focused Subreddit, But Eventually Op Admits They Are A Male, Writing Creepy Sexual Fantasies! He Then Follows Up By Asking Responders About How They Feel Upon “The Male Gaze”

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#16 Anti-Suffragette Political Cartoons From The Early 1900s Are Wild

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#17 I Could Save The Day If I Didn’t Have A Girl Brain! (Avengers #34, Lee/Heck)

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#18 Women Writing Women

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#19 Thoughts As A Woman, During An Apocalypse, As You Starve To Death❤️ “Run” By Blake Crouch

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#20 Writing A Profile Of A History Lecturer For The Spectator? Make Sure You Emphasize How Her Blonde Hair Made You So Uncontrollably H***y That You Had To Get A Happy Ending Massage

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#21 Nietschze The Incel

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#22 1968 Femicin Ad – “I Suffered From Menstrual Cramps.”

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#23 An Old Tom And Jerry Comic. Worst Thing I’ve Seen Today

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#24 Vonnegut Does It For Men Too! (Cat’s Cradle)

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#25 Birth Kink On Display – Saga By Brian K. Vaughan

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#26 The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett

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#27 Script Excerpt From Death Proof (2007) By Quentin Tarantino

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#28 Because Even If A Woman Is The First To Discover Intelligent Alien Life, Her Story Isn’t Complete Or Meaningful Without A Kid. (Jodie Foster Plays Ellie Arroway In The Movie Contact, 1997)

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#29 [avengers: Age Of Ultron] That Time Marvel Conflated Infertility With Being A Monster

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#30 [the Scrivener’s Bones By Brandon Sanderson] I’ll Admit I Didn’t Know This, But It’s A Neat Fact!

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#31 “She’s Learned Her Lesson…and She Loved It!” [just Married #58]

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#32 [The Way Of The Superior Man By David Dieda] – How Many Isms Can He Fit In One Book?

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#33 Is It Wrong For Me To Be Critical Of The Way Arya Stark Was Made To Say, “Most Girls Are Idiots” In Game Of Thrones Season 2?

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#34 Murakami Murakami-Ing (Hard-Boiled Wonderland And The End Of The World, Haruki Murakami)

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#35 A Woman’s Breasts Marking The Passage Of Time [hyperion By Dan Simmons]

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