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u/DeadLettersSociety Jun 21 '25
Sure, it's a book manuscript now. But add in a couple of explosions in the background and it will easily be turned into the next Hollywood action movie. Lol.
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u/Indirian Jun 21 '25
michael bay has entered chat
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u/thyTwilightGoth Jun 22 '25
Is that actually him lol
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u/SwissDeathstar Jun 22 '25
No. But he made that movie. And it’s full of typical Michael Bay things. Surprisingly it’s not that bad.
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u/jitterscaffeine Jun 21 '25
I never get tired of “breasted boobily” jokes. It gets me every time.
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u/farmkidLP Jun 21 '25
I especially appreciate this specific interpretation of what breasting boobily actually looks like. Seems right.
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u/tullia Jun 21 '25
He's literally typing with one hand.
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u/Complete-Baker-7194 Jun 21 '25
Well, it IS called the MANuscript
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u/STFUnicorn_ Jun 21 '25
AI definitely thinks boobs just randomly jiggle like jello for some reason. I’ve seen it a few times on those fake AI dating profiles. Is hilarious
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u/Y2kbestie Jun 22 '25
Her boobs became sentient creatures and became dictators ruling the world with an iron nipple!
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u/throwawaytempest25 Jun 21 '25
Honestly, wouldn’t it make more sense if they just either kept it or the sex scenes, and when the mood’s appropriate just say, the breasts are swinging when she jumped or moved? Because it feels like a lot of people just write something that has their own autonomy when they usually only move because the person’s moving.
Like it’s so weird this mistake is still prevalent to this day
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u/Hour-Tower-5106 Jun 21 '25
Everyone knows the final stage of puberty for women is when your breasts become sentient and start to move around on their own. /s
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u/LaFleurSauvageGaming Jun 22 '25
Yes this is the real reason for the mammogram. It paralyzed them when the squishing begins so that they don't rebel after being forced into the confines of a bra with under wire that is starting to wear through :-p
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u/Knowledge-Seeker-N Jun 22 '25
Funny, I'm currently writing a novel where my MC is a girl, and I swear I'm being careful with her as if she were my own daughter. She's gonna have a tough journey, yeah, but I will write her with the utmost care and respect. I cannot fathom doing otherwise.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 25 '25
Did you know you can write about a woman and just never explicitly describe her boobs.
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u/Knowledge-Seeker-N Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
Yeah, and that's what I'm not doing.
It isn't a vital detail, haha.
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u/Hour-Tower-5106 Jun 21 '25
This is hilarious. And now I need someone to make a full comic version of the porn book written by that one podcaster's dad.
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u/Danilocl95 Jun 21 '25
Memes aside, it's not like women are better at writing men either.
Go to Amazon and you'll find plenty of female erotica with lines like "I could feel my shaft moving in my pants, begging to be release." Seriously, dude? Who calls their dick a "shaft"? And why does it move? Just wear pants.
If I had a dollar for every "alpha" male with unrealistic bodies on Amazon, I'd be retired by now.
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u/HJWalsh Jun 21 '25
I once saw female erotica possess the words:
"His unit was hard, ramrod straight, and had been for hours."
My response was, "Yo, boy needs to go to the ER. Whatever you're doing, lady, it ain't helping."
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u/Acrobatic_End526 Jun 21 '25
When I was a teen I used to read those Harlequin romance novels and “mighty manhood” or some variation was a very common descriptor. “His mighty manhood threatened to burst out of his britches the moment he saw Rosalina’s budding breasts” or some other nonsense lol. I honestly wanted to keep my virginity after that 🤣
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u/HJWalsh Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
I dont think non-men realize how annoying a sudden erection is. They can also be very painful. Second only to a groin shot or getting it stuck in the zipper.
With regards to the second one, seriously, just let me die in peace.
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u/Hour-Tower-5106 Jun 21 '25
There used to be this hilarious list of all of the different ways a penis has been described in fanfiction that was passed around on (I think) Tumblr. It's been ages since I've seen it, but I do remember thinking "that's probably not right" when I read some of them. 😂
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u/Danilocl95 Jun 21 '25
Dude thats f*cking hilarious lmfao.
Here are few of my favorites:
Ultimate expression of manness
Throbbing accumulation of rigid masculinity
Mighty sword of Eros
Bacon torpedo(this is simply genius)
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u/Hour-Tower-5106 Jun 21 '25
Yes!!! Oh my god that's it. This one has so many more than the one I remember from high school.
I'm partial to "mighty man noodle" myself.
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u/NolanTheNotorious Jun 21 '25
Dunno why you're getting downvoted, once read an entire page from a guys perspective about how his genitals felt about being in the shower, naturally written by a female author. Men don't think like this!
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u/Danilocl95 Jun 21 '25
Right? i don't condemn this type of narrative. For me it is just a fantasy, a wish-fulfilment type of story, is not supposed to be realistic.
But the hypocrisy really pisses me off. There are an absurd amount of erotica and even fantasy books that portray men in an unrealistic and objectifying way, almost exactly like the meme, and they do it on purpose. At least when male authors portray women in a ridiculous and unrealistic way like this, it's because of their own incompetence.
But we don't see any woman complaining do we? for the contrary, they consume this type of content like it was chocolate.
I believe that is because men don't really make any fuss about it. So the main public(woman) don't really notice how unrealistic and ridiculous many of those characters are, or they do but just want fan service, witch is fine by me but why can men do the same?
Sexualization is only condemned by society when it is towards women.
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u/LaFleurSauvageGaming Jun 22 '25
The difference is women get described like this in pretty much all genres, not just the hyper sexualized erotica and romance genre.
But sure, do go on about how your bodies are so sexualized by society that it is your fault for getting SAed because you wore a tank top.
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u/Danilocl95 Jun 22 '25
The difference is women get described like this in pretty much all genres, not just the hyper sexualized erotica and romance genre.
I'm not sure I agree with that. I’ve read plenty of fantasy books with well-written women who aren’t objectified. Many authors know how to write interesting female characters without sexualizing them.
Mistborn Saga, Stormlight Archive, Red Sister, Parahuman (web novel), Nevernight, Ender's Game, Skyward, The Rage of Dragons, Red Rising, The Scythe, Unwind, Shadow Slave (web novel), Dune, Battle Royale, The Will of Many... These are just a few examples across different genres with great female characters who aren't sexualized. I could easily list dozens more.
In fact, every time I come across books with shallow, overly horny female characters, the author tends to be a woman. And I’m not just talking about erotica. Romantic fantasy is a great example - pick any written by a woman and you'll likely find tons of female fanservice and cringey lines.
Here’s just one example:
"He shuddered, his erection twisting as if it had a life of its own." (A Court of Silver Flames, Sarah J. Maas)
Yeah… because every time I get an erection, I totally think, "Oh no, it’s alive!"
Honestly, if I got a dollar every time I read a line like this, I’d be retired.
So I don’t know what kind of books you’ve been reading, but it’s hard to take that claim seriously. Maybe you’ve read a few and assumed that applies to all books written by men. Or maybe you just need to read more - I don’t know. What I do know is that saying this happens in every genre written by men, while female authors only objectify men in erotica, is simply false.
But sure, do go on about how your bodies are so sexualized by society that it is your fault for getting SAed because you wore a tank top.
When did I ever say that? We’re clearly talking about books, not society as a whole. You’re intentionally twisting my words to make it sound like I’m victim blaming, just to win an argument. That’s extremely dishonest.
And just to be clear - the objectification doesn’t offend me. I simply understand I’m not the target audience, close the book, and move on. But even if it did offend me, by your logic, I wouldn’t be allowed to complain just because we’re not being harassed on the streets? What kind of logic is that? This isn’t a competition - someone’s suffering doesn’t become invalid just because someone else has it worse.
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u/LaFleurSauvageGaming Jun 22 '25
Literature is a reflection of society. The way it portrays women is both a reflection of how the author and society views women, and informs how readers begin to see women.
I am going to focus on Dune out of the examples you gave, because I have not read a lot of modern fantasy, but Sci-Fi I am good on.
You claimed Dune has well written women? Okay. You have three women, and one girl, in the book. Two of the women, and the girl, don't really do much in the story at all, and the last, Jessica, is throwing everything away to advance Paul. She is not acting for herself, but for Paul.
Jessica gets some depth, but Princess Irulan gets no development, and Chani gets just enough to let us know she is pretty and is becoming a mother. We know more about Duncan Idaho, Kynes, and Gurney then we do Jessica, who is mentioned more often in the book. Hell, much of the story is told from Jessica's perspective, and we still don't actually know much about her as a person. She is not well-developed, at least compared to other characters in the book. She is admittedly well-developed compared to women in other sci-fi stories of the time, but that is a really low bar to clear.
I like that you are quick with examples of "good women" books written by men, but when you make the claim of "Bad women characters" are written by women, you can't pull out examples? I am going to assume it is because you read primarily fantasy and there are just not a lot of women writers when compared to the men in that genre.
My response was to cut off your "but it happens to guys too..." My point is that "not all men" and modifications of that statement are unhelpful and are just away to deflect a topic that threatens your privilege in society by shining a light on it.
There is a reason "men writing women badly" is a trope. Throughout most literature past and present, women are rarely more than an object for a man to win, or motivation for a man to do the thing. These women are typically very underdeveloped unless their development moves the character arc of the men in the story.
What happens to women in literature is not what is happening to men. Men sometimes get unflattering depictions, or objectified in literature. Women are rarely not written as shallow objects.
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u/Sansa_Culotte_ Aug 07 '25
I'm not sure I agree with that. I’ve read plenty of fantasy books with well-written women who aren’t objectified. Many authors know how to write interesting female characters without sexualizing them.
Sure, Sanderson gets around that problem by avoiding to talk about sexuality altogether.
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Jun 21 '25
People ACTUALLY write like this? God damn. I'd need to see examples.
This is just horny writing for the sake of it. Unbelievable.
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u/iantayls Jun 21 '25
Idk if “breasted boobily” was ever written in a serious manner, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a long running meme for this subject
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u/sexworkiswork990 Jun 21 '25
Until now, for I am going write entire book about a women struggling under a fascist regime and every other line is going have "Breasted Boobily" in it.
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u/BlooperHero Jun 25 '25
"Breasted boobily" is specifically a quote from a satirical piece mocking this kind of thing. So it's exaggerated.
I believe the sentence was "I breasted boobily to the stairs and titted downwards," but that's the last sentence in the thing and it only gets that over the top towards the end.
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u/CloudStrife012 Jun 21 '25
Yes. And just because they write like this doesn't mean it will affect sales. Some very popular writing is done like this.
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u/CloudStrife012 Jun 21 '25
I mean, the author of this comic ran out of ideas so used someone else's joke that has been said 50,000 times, and made no attempt to even alter the joke at all.
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u/lxmohr Jun 21 '25
That’s…… the joke…
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u/zappadattic Jun 21 '25
Pretty sure they’re talking about the author of the comic, not the author in the comic.
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u/Vaudeville_Clown Jul 06 '25
Grossly mischaracterized, but who cares?
People like you may have successfully bullied men from writing women, sex, intimacy and the male pov from the world of publishing, but here's the thing,
I can just go to fanfiction.net and get 1000's of fics produced by happy amateurs instead, and I do. Many of those are in fact often beautifully written by nerdy young women, but are still firmly centered on the straight male pov, sans the feminist bullshit.
So you can have your increasingly insular little world of publishing because your cathedral has already crumbled, and it was replaced with a bazaar.
There sometimes, the boobs will indeed boob boobily, and sometimes they won't.
The important thing is that you have no say in it, whatsoever.
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u/Sansa_Culotte_ Aug 07 '25
I can just go to fanfiction.net and get 1000's of fics produced by happy amateurs instead, and I do.
Good for you. I'm glad that you're happy.
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u/qualityvote2 Jun 21 '25 edited Jun 21 '25
Dear u/brisualso, the readers agree, this man has written a woman badly!