when for the whole day you’ve been planning on eating something and you go to open the fridge and it turns out someone else ate it. im on mobile someone add a picture
Male writer: This female character that I’m writing has a deep dark secret.
Male writer: Something so horrible that she can’t tell a soul…
Male writer: This female character has literally the saddest back story anyone could ever imagine and no man could ever love her because of it and she cries herself to sleep every single night because she’s such a monster.
A dude at uni today said he wanted to do a doctorate because his wife is a doctor and he doesn’t like the fact that she gets called “doctor” and he doesn’t.
omg why are men so fragile
Sounds very much like he isn’t even proud of his wife for all the hard work she did - it’s all obscured by his jealously
I was discussing representation of gender in fiction and I was thinking about how the ‘dead wife’ and ‘dead mom’ tropes are way too common in fiction and there was a big imbalance in killing prominently female characters.
But instead of articulating that point I just said “More husbands need to die.”