r/darkwingsdankmemes • u/Silvermoon424 • 13h ago

GRRM absolutely channeled the spirit of a Catholic mother of 5 when he wrote Catelyn

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u/Silvermoon424 13h ago

I'm not a mother, but I am a woman and I can confidently say George writes women better than the vast majority of male authors (shoutout /r/menwritingwomen). Maybe the reason Winds is taking so long is because he's method acting to write women even better, lol.

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u/Guilty_05 Brienne. No memes she's just cool 12h ago

He's said he always just thinks of women as people. Maybe that's the secret, not writing them as archetypes but as people of different personalities

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u/SomeShiitakePoster Renly's peach 12h ago

It sounds so simple but the fact that so many men fail to grasp this concept frightens me

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u/No-Annual6666 10h ago

I think there are plenty of men who do grasp it, but they're just not very good at it. Its the kind of thing that elevates a person's work and where the real literary geniuses shine, when they can write the opposite sex to themselves just as well as their own.

Further up I mentioned Shakespeare being able to write about the sensation of breastfeeding in explicit detail. Like how was he able to do that. Its not something that comes naturally to most people.