I can't really tell what you're getting at. In your first paragraph, do you mean that most women in worthwhile post-1970's genre fiction are taciturn and prone to hiding their emotions and opinions? That isn't the impression I get, but maybe we read different books.
In your second paragraph, I'm not sure what the referents of "this kind of thing" and "it's not at all realistic" and "it's a foreign emotion" are. By "this kind of thing", do you mean that female-character-avoidant people are avoiding female characters because too many female characters are sassy and irreverent, or because too many of them are filled with angst, or something else? What is unrealistic, being spunky, suppressing angst, not suppressing angst, or something else? Is your last sentence literal or sarcastic?
I'm not arguing, I just can't tell for sure what you mean. Your statements could be interpreted multiple ways.
I've already agreed with the original poster that I was overgeneralizing. "Only" was way too strong a word to use. People are individuals, and any generalization applies only in a statistical way, like saying women tend to be shorter than men. I still think it's true, though, that as a rule women tend to be more open about how they feel, especially with their close friends and lovers, than men tend to be.
Re: I'm not really a writer
I can't really tell what you're getting at. In your first paragraph, do you mean that most women in worthwhile post-1970's genre fiction are taciturn and prone to hiding their emotions and opinions? That isn't the impression I get, but maybe we read different books.
In your second paragraph, I'm not sure what the referents of "this kind of thing" and "it's not at all realistic" and "it's a foreign emotion" are. By "this kind of thing", do you mean that female-character-avoidant people are avoiding female characters because too many female characters are sassy and irreverent, or because too many of them are filled with angst, or something else? What is unrealistic, being spunky, suppressing angst, not suppressing angst, or something else? Is your last sentence literal or sarcastic?
I'm not arguing, I just can't tell for sure what you mean. Your statements could be interpreted multiple ways.
I've already agreed with the original poster that I was overgeneralizing. "Only" was way too strong a word to use. People are individuals, and any generalization applies only in a statistical way, like saying women tend to be shorter than men. I still think it's true, though, that as a rule women tend to be more open about how they feel, especially with their close friends and lovers, than men tend to be.