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stavros
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The Placeholder Girlfriend
Is this a kind of mistake only male writers make?
lmm
on Dec 4, 2023
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Depends what level of meta you're thinking about it on. Female writers make converse mistakes and write e.g. a male character who doesn't care whether he's good in bed, or doesn't even conceptualise that as a metric that one ranks people on.
striking
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If you end up asking a woman that, please let me know what she says.
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