Post by Optimism is my Phil-osophy on Oct 5, 2021 3:39:05 GMT -5
If that's the case, I couldn't disagree more with the majority. I actually have more fun reading stories with female protagonists than reading stories with male protagonists. The female mind always fascinates me, and I feel like I'm embarking on a journey into the unknown when the protagonists are female, even though the story tells of relatively common events.
One of the funnest books I read was "PS, I love you". I really find the mental descriptions of the protagonist captivating and help me understand how a woman thinks, because it's a book with a female protagonist written by a woman, where the female point of view is highlighted all the time. How does a woman deal with the death of loved ones in her mind? How does a woman deal with her family in her mind? How does a woman deal with her friends in her mind? Of course, generalizing is almost always wrong, but good narrations made with female protagonists show a different way of thinking than mine. I'm not referring to what the protagonist thinks or doesn't think about, because that doesn't matter to the genre. But I'm talking about how ideas form, and how characters often end up acting differently from what they're consciously thinking. Because that's what I find most amazing: often the protagonist's inner voice is described as saying something cold and calculating, but then the character acts according to something not described but that you can understand that it's there that are the undescribed thoughts in words.
I think regardless of gender, humans have inaudible thoughts, thoughts that don't function as an inner voice, but that are real. But in general, men have a certain inner pride of listening to what they say to themselves in the form of words, whereas female protagonists (I hope somehow they're being realistic in these respects) just don't have that pride and give the same weight of importance to thoughts in the form of words as to mute thoughts.
I can say that I'm afraid of my mute thoughts, because I never know what they want until they make me do something, and that fear is what makes me feel inner shame when I follow them, which female protagonists don't usually feel. I tried to replicate this in my Fanfic "Untie My Silence Knot". I don't know if I did it, but I wanted to replicate it a little through that story.
One of the funnest books I read was "PS, I love you". I really find the mental descriptions of the protagonist captivating and help me understand how a woman thinks, because it's a book with a female protagonist written by a woman, where the female point of view is highlighted all the time. How does a woman deal with the death of loved ones in her mind? How does a woman deal with her family in her mind? How does a woman deal with her friends in her mind? Of course, generalizing is almost always wrong, but good narrations made with female protagonists show a different way of thinking than mine. I'm not referring to what the protagonist thinks or doesn't think about, because that doesn't matter to the genre. But I'm talking about how ideas form, and how characters often end up acting differently from what they're consciously thinking. Because that's what I find most amazing: often the protagonist's inner voice is described as saying something cold and calculating, but then the character acts according to something not described but that you can understand that it's there that are the undescribed thoughts in words.
I think regardless of gender, humans have inaudible thoughts, thoughts that don't function as an inner voice, but that are real. But in general, men have a certain inner pride of listening to what they say to themselves in the form of words, whereas female protagonists (I hope somehow they're being realistic in these respects) just don't have that pride and give the same weight of importance to thoughts in the form of words as to mute thoughts.
I can say that I'm afraid of my mute thoughts, because I never know what they want until they make me do something, and that fear is what makes me feel inner shame when I follow them, which female protagonists don't usually feel. I tried to replicate this in my Fanfic "Untie My Silence Knot". I don't know if I did it, but I wanted to replicate it a little through that story.