"This video is ridiculous," I gruntle, my beard throbbing angrily from the basso rumble of my testosterone-and-beer-scented proclamation. My manly, hairy buttcheeks lash out with rage, thankfully hidden from prying eyes behind the safety of my denim jorts. My biceps quiver like grapefruits bouncing beneath sandpaper as a hammer and plank of wood materialize into my grasping hands, and I calm myself by building a lawnmower to go fishing with.

@whoknows4780

2 жыл бұрын

This needs a million more likes

@otaku-chan4888

2 жыл бұрын

wow amazing, I need the sequel novel whch will inevitably be a ny times bestseller

@satirestudios5413

2 жыл бұрын

Crying, sobbing

@sentienttapioca5409

2 жыл бұрын

Not the jorts 😭

@ashtonstout7375

2 жыл бұрын

I love this. So much.

A woman cuts her hair: She must be emotionally broken A woman is agressive: She must be emotionally broken A woman is super happy and extroverted: She must be emotionally broken A woman is introverted: She must be emotionally broken A woman does anything but be a calm happy housewife and mom: She must be emotionally broken

@aBeerFromHere7994

2 жыл бұрын

a woman exists: she must be emotionally broken

@isitnotwrittenthat1680

2 жыл бұрын

Humans exist- they must be emotionally broken

@insideAdirtyMind

2 жыл бұрын

a woman is just doing all the housewife stuff a man wants and drinks all the alcohol in the house regularly: She must be so happy Some decades ago there was a huge alcohol crisis going on with all the moms and wifes in my country, they even drank parfume because drinks were forbidden for women at some point. They did everything to anesthetize themself to escape from life and men want to make it look like it was the perfect life for women and all women were super happy at that time.......

@banjofan647

2 жыл бұрын

It's 2022. Everyone is emotionally broken now

@XellosNi

2 жыл бұрын

In a post-modern interpretation, a woman being a calm happy housewife STILL must be emotionally broken

My dad once told me that women grow shorter when their pregnant because they trade height for the needed materials to have a child develop in them. And that's a r/menwritingwomen moment.

@ameliegonissen7154

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds more like a bad women’s anatomy moment to me but that’s really funny

@coinsilver3

2 жыл бұрын

How did he ever come to that thought?

@aghostwithtwobrokelegs9995

2 жыл бұрын

@@coinsilver3 I would personally like to know, he's refuses to explained, no matter how much I ask him.

@piercedsiren

2 жыл бұрын

Dang... I'm 5'1 (or like, 155 cm..) I can't have a kid, I'd end up being the size of an actual child.

@Sly-Moose

2 жыл бұрын

Was he not around while your mom was pregnant or something???

re writing men like some write women "He dicked ballfully down the stairs, his chest hair curling in anticipation of the encounter, his stubble beaming with testosterone. Soon he and his biceps would join his partner in bed, where they would spend the evening snacking on nachos and reading comic books. He was bringing a six pack of cherry cola along with his six pack of abs."

@banditxavier2893

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a nice evening.

@legrandliseurtri7495

2 жыл бұрын

''snacking on nachos and reading comic books'' Well that was a twist.

@michaelturner2806

2 жыл бұрын

@@legrandliseurtri7495 my fellow ace friends agree what else would you do in bed?

@Riverplanet

2 жыл бұрын

I would 100% read this

@ollow_is_sad5373

2 жыл бұрын

That last sentence was genuinely amazing-

It's baffling enough that someone thinks that the female urinary tract is some kind of labyrinth but it's even worse than that because if anything the female's is simpler. The female urethra is significantly shorter than the male! Also, males have a lot of other parts and pieces draining into their urethra whereas female urethras only handle urine.

@Nikki-lodeon

2 жыл бұрын

My thoughts, too. 😆

@JustSaralius

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Thank you!!

@StarlightDreamer12

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I was thinking this too!

@suchnothing

2 жыл бұрын

I suspect they think our pee goes on a whole ass journey through our reproductive system.

@UmbraKrameri

2 жыл бұрын

Came here to write the exact same thing.

Wikipedia on the length of the urethra: 'In the human male, the urethra is on average 18 to 20 centimeters' 'In the human female, the urethra is about 4 cm long' Sorry, whose insides are supposed to be a maze?

@sentienttapioca5409

2 жыл бұрын

Okay, now I'll forever think of the male urethra as a little maze down there.

@suchnothing

2 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking, thanks for taking one for the team and actually looking it up. I mean, it's a pretty direct line from kidneys to bladder to urethra, if I'm remembering correctly, so male anatomy would have to be a little longer, right? I have a very depressing suspicion that the author thinks pee, periods, and babies all come out of the same hole... it wouldn't be the first time I've heard of a man having that insane misunderstanding.

@lily_littleangel

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly, both insides are a huge maze, especially if you take the brain, blood vessels and lymph system into account...

@Pysslis

2 жыл бұрын

Also males (amab) urethra need to extend like a accordion fold type tube, because 🍆…

@sentienttapioca5409

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pysslis Why did you have to bring that to my attention? Jesus... What a mental image. Accordion penis.

I’ll never forget the one book scene by Morrissey where a woman’s breasts “did a barrel roll” across a man’s face. Did she detach them? Throw them across his face like flesh maracas?

@Maerahn

2 жыл бұрын

I hope there was a snare drop and a trumpet "Ta-dah!" at the end of it!

@ToastyJunebugs

2 жыл бұрын

Was she doing a cartwheel? Rolling down a hill in a tire? How'd the man keep his face in the right place? So many questions.

@awfuldynne

2 жыл бұрын

The pedants say a "barrel roll" is a sort of helical loop-the-loop. Common usage is just the plane doing a 360° roll. If we ignore that planes _move forward_ as they do their maneuvers, the breasts might be twisting in place (implying detachment), spinning about their mutual center (a cartwheel with the center at the breasts instead of the abdomen) or rotating around some point in the vicinity of the woman's head (an even weirder cartwheel). Doing this "across a man's face", I'm picturing the man lying face up, head off the bed or close to it, and the woman moving in ways proscribed by physics, possibly phasing through the man, to roll the top of her breasts across his face.

@meganm4877

2 жыл бұрын

I wish I could go back in time 30 seconds to when I hadn't seen the term 'flesh maracas' 😅

@allnaturalfigjam310

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry, do none of the women you know have detachable breasts? It's a very normal thing, I throw my flesh maracas at men's faces constantly

Mostly seeing women depicted by male writers probably helps explain why it took me so long to figure out I was gay. I'm just not attracted to women like straight men typically are (not all men obviously but the media made it seem that if you like women you just like big boobs and butt, a tiny waist, and an overall supermodel look, and that personality doesn't' really matter).

@ladyredl3210

2 жыл бұрын

This is so relatable!

@M00s3r

2 жыл бұрын

Same!

@bbear2695

2 жыл бұрын

when did they start letting feemails have personalities in the first place? thought there were laws against that. /s

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

I'd be absolutely fascinated in the converse is true for any lesbian people, or even if other ace ladies like me can relate? The reason I ask is that whilst the majority of screen romance is written by men (& has its own issues believe me!), the overwhelming majority of text romance is still written by and consumed by women. In my past experience, the cishet variety of romance book often tends to enforce both some pretty awful toxic masculinity ideals & some fairly unrealistic expectations about how easy it is for women to climax, esp. through penetrative sex (sorry about the sudden dip into the graphic there!) I'm curious if the way that these works are written has perhaps had impact on female readers who later realised they weren't actually real-life attracted to men, or were actually ace/demi-ace? Seems like it could be quite confusing for a while if you found you couldn't live up to the often-silly standards of arousability these works set, but weren't sure why, particularly given our society's strong heteronormative & amatonormative messages? I can definitely imagine people just keeping on thinking it's a bad match-up/"havent found the right one yet", and taking quite a while to figure out that it's actually something innate and important about themselves...?

@alchemysaga3745

2 жыл бұрын

@Anna_ in_Aotearoa I tried to look into this and hit a snag immediately. Namely that, even though the majority of romance novel authors are *presumed* female (between 86% to 92% depending on survey)... there's actually not much guarantee on that being the reality. Apparently it's not at all uncommon for men who want to try to write romance/erotica "for women" to write under a female pen name. This has also, apparently, lead to men being given awards that were intended to be specific to female authors. But it does raise the question of how much of the "female authors dominated" romance/erotica space is *actually* created by women- or at least individuals who identified as women at *some* point. Particularly since many publishing houses won't publish something that doesn't hit a certain amount of "safely risqué" points. It makes me wonder if the reality of women being the dominant authors of romance has been skewed somewhat by men choosing to ghostwrite under a female name to get "bonus points," in a sense...

I am now going to write a novel about a woman writing men the way men write woman and be so unapologetic about it lol

@ilovepancakes2545

2 жыл бұрын

Ok I'll make sure to buy it once it's published 😂😂😅

@r.d.whitaker5787

2 жыл бұрын

Make it happen 🙏

@FrozEnbyWolf150

2 жыл бұрын

Look up "If Women Wrote Men the Way Men Write Women" by Meg Elison if you want more inspiration.

@KendallM0219

2 жыл бұрын

Let me know when it's released, I'll buy it.

@mischarowe

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrozEnbyWolf150 Nice resource. :)

I remember a story in which the man described his limp d*** as "flopped over limply like an exhausted gerbil". Now that is realistic 👍

@whoknows4780

2 жыл бұрын

Idk in my experience, they kinda deflate slowly like a balloon with a small leak.

@tdelioncourt1268

2 жыл бұрын

@@whoknows4780 you mean the noise it makes? (That would be hillarious though)

@kaliwatson3948

2 жыл бұрын

@@tdelioncourt1268 I wish this was a thing

@ollow_is_sad5373

2 жыл бұрын

What is this comment thread, and why do I find it hallarious

@jakethepillowsnake5302

2 ай бұрын

LIKE AN EXHAUSTED GERBIL ☠️

“a single ha-?! SHES NOT A GRAPE!” that killed me 🤣🤣

@KnightDemonZZ

2 жыл бұрын

Basically your holding her spine cuz that's what it sounds like to me Edit: How are they doing that anyway she a skeleton?

@ivetterodriguez1994

2 жыл бұрын

I assumed that when it saud waist they really meant the small round of her belly and not a wrap around and that the guy has large hands.

@jaginaiaelectrizs6341

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah.. You really don't have to completely and totally fully encircle someone's waist to just enclasp it. Pretty sure that descriptor just meant the guy or whoever put their hand on her waist. The word enclasp just means to seize and hold or to embrace-doesn't really specify whilst fully encircling entirely.

"His mustache flared with rage" I'm pretty sure I saw this in a Ghibli film.

@an8strengthkobold360

2 жыл бұрын

I was gonna say, that's just how anime works.

4:28 the men's anatomy fiction bit was hilarious: "His balls clung desperately to each other like lovers parting for the last time" lol.

@kimberleemodel7182

2 жыл бұрын

"Like a puppy restrained by their leash from knocking over small children" was the one that really got me

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

I felt like the sagging with embarrassment one is realistic lmao

"She's not a grape!" Seriously, the tallest person ever has hands only 11" long, no human has a waist that even one of HIS hands could span!

@voidboi2831

2 жыл бұрын

@@samarnadra nothing says beauty like becoming a skeleton with a layer of skin

@starrywizdom

2 жыл бұрын

I thought she was a Barbie doll. I can get my hand around the waist of a Barbie doll!

@anomienormie8126

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe the tiniest woman on earth

@voidboi2831

2 жыл бұрын

Theory: the woman in the story happens to be a newborn infant

@SassyGirl822006

2 жыл бұрын

I don't think that the Victorian fad of extreme corseting got a woman's waist that small. Though I have heard of at least one that two hands could touch fingers around her waist.

“She was blessedly free of cellulite - with nothing connecting her skin to her body it hung like a shapeless sack over her screaming frame. She was in constant agony but pleased, for she had fulfilled society’s demands of the Perfect Female Body. Every waking moment was purgatory.” (Brilliant vid btw)

@MyotisOccultus

2 жыл бұрын

*chef's kiss*

@THEHus-ElvesOfficialChannel

Жыл бұрын

wow horrifying but accurate

"A single hand could clasp her waist" POV the author is staring down Lolth, the spider queen. Alternately, a giant wasp

@jamie1249

2 жыл бұрын

Hail Lolth the spider queen of the drow

@John_Weiss

2 жыл бұрын

Considering that a single hand could never even wrap completely around a human spine? Yeah, gotta be a giant wasp.

@thecheerfulnecromancer2257

2 жыл бұрын

The first man who tries to clasp a hand around Lolth's waist won't last long... lmao

@kai_fatallysapphic

2 жыл бұрын

Fun fact about wasps: their waists are so tiny that they can't eat solid food! Adults only eat liquids (mostly flower nectar) baby wasp grubs however eat meat, and their older sisters hunt caterpillars to feed them :) I believe It's hypothesized that wasps have tiny waists because it gives the part of their body with the stinger more flexibility; also they don't need solids anyway because they need the fast energy high suger liquids give them for flying. Sorry for the rant, I know no one asked, but I just think wasps are awesome! :D

@allnaturalfigjam310

2 жыл бұрын

You could clasp these with a single hand... But you shouldn't

The part about the pee finding its way through a womens „maze“ really emphasizes the fact that a lot of men know nothing about womens anatomy or their own. A womans urtehtra is relatively short and mostly straight, while a man’s urethra is longer and bends (which e.g. makes placing a catheter harder or at least a little bit more challenging). So if you’d like to describe an urethra or the “way pee has to find to get out” as a maze, it would have to be a male body with a penis.

@Mintysaur

2 жыл бұрын

Ikr when i saw that part of the vid i was like "...wait does that guy seriously think pee starts in the ovaries and has to travel through the same way an egg does"

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mintysaur I can just imagine the author going “welp, it’s all one hole for me!”

@insertianameia2224

Жыл бұрын

It being shorter is also why women are generally more prone to UTIs.

I'd love to see some scrappy animations of these terrible descriptions- would be cursed as hell but funny (and highlight how ridiculous they are). Great video as always :)

@Artzibo

2 жыл бұрын

I'll animate it later :') Thanks for the idea

@RuneDrageon

2 жыл бұрын

True, heels are very cursed.

@paper_nezu7571

2 жыл бұрын

@@Artzibo Definitely send the link here when/if you finish :))

@miramiraonthewall133

2 жыл бұрын

@@Artzibo yea definitely show us, that would be my dream

@Artzibo

2 жыл бұрын

@@miramiraonthewall133 alright lmao I got a Lotta projects going on so I'll send it whenever I can

I couldn't encompass my child's waist with one hand when they were literally only minutes old. Why does this writer think they can do that with a woman....... how freakishly big are his hands?

@Mithgariel

2 жыл бұрын

about the size of his ego?

@gayslides8538

2 жыл бұрын

probably around 34 inches long freaky

@Hollieanaaa

2 жыл бұрын

@@Mithgariel bro 😭

@kaitlyn__L

2 жыл бұрын

The only explanation my brain will accept is that he somehow completely bungled a description of his hand span going across the width of her back, and his editor didn’t give a damn? But… ugh I can’t discredit ludicrous intention

@Limacinablues

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of old BL manga where the guys have big ass hands lol

1:10 She couldn't afford make up in the end, but thankfully she had enough budget for a multipack of bic razors so her blessedly free of cellulite legs could also be blessedly free of hair.

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah... Listening to that paragraph, it was clearly meant to be written from the perspective of the woman herself examining her own reflection, rather than from a "male gaze" viewpoint. But it still brings up a BIG ol' can of worms around societal expectations re presentation of femininity!! 😬

@Missster_Sharp

2 жыл бұрын

@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 this is The Rook by Daniel O’Malley. The character wakes in the rain surrounded by dead bodies, she is sort of a completely new person having lost all her memories and so seeing her body for the first time, but the way it’s phrased is just so jarring, I struggle to believe any person in those circumstances would waste time bothering about that shit when they haven’t a clue who they are and they’re in mortal danger. This is 100% male gaze from the writer

6:57 I found a book that writes this scene properly. She cuts her hair with a pair of shears and messes it up so badly, then she has to get her friend to fix it for her. _Then_ it looks like the picture. A job well done

@Nikki-lodeon

2 жыл бұрын

Her friend must be a professional stylist with a pro level kit. 😆

@randommeowthekitty6482

2 жыл бұрын

@Nikki M Professional? Maybe not. Experienced? Definitely. Pro-level kit? Probably. It also doesn't look quite like that picture, but it's pretty close. And anyways, it's better than most of these types of scenes lol

@anonymousfellow8879

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nikki-lodeon I mean, I’ve had friends who are definitely not cosmopolitans but successfully cut their own hair and bangs, so, it’s possible to not fuck it up. (But one-slice? NO. That’s as fantasy as Ariel’s hair billowing in the wind away from her face as a wave crashes directly behind her and it still continues to billow dry like a conditioner commercial.)

@John_Weiss

2 жыл бұрын

@@anonymousfellow8879 "Cosmopolitan" isn't the right word, but I can't remember what is … Cosmetician? [The word, "cosmopolitan", comes from the Greek word, "cosmos", and the Ancient Greek concept of the "polis". The Ancient Greeks tied their identity to the city-state they came from, and their word for "a city-state" is the word "polis". So the combination of "cosmopolitan" means someone/something from every "polis" - a citizen-of-the-cosmos, if you will. As for "cosmetic", I'm not sure of the etymology of that word. It could be Greek, or it could be Latin.]

@krrowthemyuii

2 жыл бұрын

@@John_Weiss Cosmetologist (from the Greek kosmētikos, "beautifying")

"Slender waist that a single hand could enclasp" whos hand could do it? Andre the Giant?

@Charlie-up8hy

2 жыл бұрын

Taking the stereotype that women should be like barbie dolls a little too literal.

@HangryOnPaws

2 жыл бұрын

I Imagine her as follows: "I looked out the window to see the woman knocking at the door. To be quite honest she wasn't knocking on the door but bent down tapping it gently with a single finger. The door shook on its hinges and I prayed she wouldn't knock it down. She was eight, maybe nine feet tall with enormous muscles bulging from every part of her body. Her fists were the size of the small cottages that had been built on the sides of the mountains she tore to pieces with the rest of the demolition team."

My 80-something year old AP English teacher loves mocking authors who do this, thank you for making her day 😂

To be fair, I've also seen examples of WomenWritingMen that were hilarious. in my youth I was curious about fandoms and read some slash fanfics (I don't know whether this term is still used these days, but it's a homoerotic genre between males; I also read some femslash, which is between females, and het, between a male and a female character), which is usually written by women and girls. And there were some very imaginative interpretations of male anatomy and men's appearance and behaviour. So, while invisibility of women's experiences and correct representation of women in particular is a problem, there is an additional problem with poor sex education and gender stereotypes that affects both genders and is visible in fiction in particular

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

If there is a distaff version of this subreddit, I'd loooove to see Jamie visit it!! 😆 When I was younger I read a lot of both het and m/m romance novels (both of which genres are still largely written by women at present) and DEFINITELY had quite a few moments of "Hang on, would a real-life guy really...??" 🤔 Mind you, that was even AFTER I started trying to avoid stuff that clearly contained a "hyper alpha male" protagonist! I can only imagine the WTF moments must be even more plentiful in there... 😏

@anonymousfellow8879

2 жыл бұрын

Big difference between the two, OP: All the examples you gave? Not published. They’re all amateur or new writers writing as a hobby, not as a career. MAJOR difference (in additional to professional media being flooded with cismen who don’t know shit about women’s bodies yet feel the need to describe them in inaccurately wordy and often snide detail, anyway.)

@FrozEnbyWolf150

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, there are published works like this. Look up any of Laurell K. Hamilton's books after she jumped the shark.

@MsFeyCreature

2 жыл бұрын

This is why there are panels at conventions on how to write m/m scenes, lol.

@erinyes3943

2 жыл бұрын

I still know it as slash, and damn you just brought back some memories I’ve learned how to jump ship with bad writing in the first few paragraphs but damn… The things I’ve seen…

1:43 And Indiana Jones isn't even the character's actual name, its Henry. The man named himself after his dog.

@Mika.Summer

2 жыл бұрын

"We named the dog Indiana. " I love that scene :D

@DinosaurNick

2 жыл бұрын

So... a female version woulda be Henrietta Jones? And She could still go by Indiana

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

@@DinosaurNick Or just Henry. Names are gender neutral

@UmbraKrameri

2 жыл бұрын

Slightly off topic, but I find this trivia endlessly amusing: James Bond was named after a real person, an ornithologist, actually. The original author of the books had his works at home and happened to look at the spine when he was in search for a manly-sounding name for his main hero.

@Mika.Summer

2 жыл бұрын

@@DinosaurNick Yes, sure, I think it was more of a weird brain wiring moment where he just wanted to add a typical female name to it and changed the wrong part of the name.

I really needed this. I am having a pretty terrible day with a lot of uncomfortable moments and thoughts. Thank you Jammi 💕

@grumpyoldman3458

2 жыл бұрын

@christopherhubbard256

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry. I hope your day gets better.

@amybethwalks

2 жыл бұрын

This was me last week; it’s no fun. Wishing you love and support and safe passage through the storm ❤️

@Laurenmcd202

2 жыл бұрын

Hope your day gets better - this community loves ya 💜

@eeveepeeveasy

2 жыл бұрын

Hope you feel better, I'm rooting for you

I want to see a book where a woman is described like this, but she's actually an eldritch horror and that's why she's like that.

I am a petite person. I'm also very skinny. I can assure you not even a man with big hands can hold my entire waist with one hand. That's just not possible. And yes, I have cellulite. Everybody does, it's really not a big deal 😂

@Arcaryon

2 жыл бұрын

Usually, when one says "grab her by the waist" one means the side not the whole thing. Just like the anglophones say "to wrap an arm around someone". So, when someone writes that one can hold an the waist, that’s how one should probably read it.

Jammie said something about how boobs move in poor writing, and that triggered a thought about "boob physics" in video games. I want to see a game/cg animation with boob physics based on men writing women descriptions. It would be so bizarre. Also, pretty sure it would lead to the mental breakdown of any developer/animator that attempted to do it.

@kimjongunsucksbooty750

2 жыл бұрын

the boobies literally glow/sparkle like important items in video games

@ameliasellers6396

2 жыл бұрын

Tbh Genshin Impact, as much as I love it, has some fairly dramatic boob physics, but they're not nearly as extreme as the r/menwriting ones.

@elfrog98

2 жыл бұрын

That would actually be hilarious!

@nuhii.2795

2 жыл бұрын

im looking at you, genshin impact 💀

@Riverplanet

2 жыл бұрын

Dead or Alive does that. The boobs jiggle insanely

8:41 I knew someone like that in/after highschool. She was VERY short (like 4’9”) and very thin (not like, unhealthy thin but very petite thin) but like an E cup and large butt. Suffice to say she had a lot of neck and back pain, not to mention how hard it was to find clothes that fit her. I lost contact years ago and still wonder how she lives like that, I cannot fathom how painful that must be. I hope she is doing better than she was back then.

@aceatlasska4343

2 жыл бұрын

I knew someone kind of like that in school too, she was short and petite, and skinny but not unhealthily so, with a pretty large chest. Like the inverted triangle body type, so not exactly like this, which is more like an extreme hourglass. I don't remember her talking about back pain, but I imagine she must have had it. She did say she wanted a breast reduction, but was afraid it would affect her ability to breastfeed. And she told me she had to quit ballet when her boobs got too big, and that finding clothes that fit was a struggle, since it would be too small for her breasts but fine on the rest of her body, and vice versa.

@mabelsan1133

2 жыл бұрын

@@aceatlasska4343 the way puberty makes a lot of girls have to quit ballet is pretty sad :( although I've heard bad stories from girls who stay in ballet so maybe it's best to get kicked out early

@rosehill9537

2 жыл бұрын

As some who in high-school was rake thin short n f cup by yr 9 pain. Now an adult The answer is it causes pain that goes on and on and on. And the unwanted attention had me covering my body in fear and shame for years still hard to not reach for baggy tshirts.

@kayrie95

2 жыл бұрын

My body type used to be similar. I've gained some weight now, but I when I was younger I was 5' tall, 110-115 pounds, and an F cup with a pretty dramatic hourglass figure. I had to go to physical therapy because my boobs damaged the muscles in my back.

@aceatlasska4343

2 жыл бұрын

@@kayrie95 oh goodness, I'm sorry it got that serious for you. Hope you're doing better now :)

I have heard that muscle mass gives the illusion of breasts being smaller--still a weird thing to write. On the other hand, I'd imagine a glute workout would give one a Glorious Butt. Then again, running is cardio, so it always loops back to not making sense

@SophiaRavenna

2 жыл бұрын

I THINK the author is trying to suggest that the character is running so much that she's burning away all the fat on her body, and most importantly (in the author's mind), the fat in her breasts and butt.

@mastermarkus5307

2 жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure it's not muscle mass that makes breasts look smaller, but just that they are mostly fatty tissue so if you're generally slim they're more likely to be smaller. Altogether the look you get from muscle mass and fat distribution is very reliant on genetics.

@-.bella.-

2 жыл бұрын

im gonna gain muscle mass now

@grell5108

2 жыл бұрын

@@mastermarkus5307 idk, I've been working out a while now to gain some upper body muscle, and boobs didn't really change size, BUT what did happen is my chest (minus the boobs) and shoulders got broader and bigger and so in relation, my boobs looked more like moobs (manboobs).

@Jane-oz7pp

2 жыл бұрын

@@grell5108 well, thanks for the unexpected dysphoria

This makes me feel better as a writer- maybe I have a chance at making it after all.

@cursedkaleidoscope

2 жыл бұрын

You do! Go follow your writing dreams, you got this!!

I- what? Women not only don't have a byzantine urinary tract, their urethra is far shorter and more direct than men's. This is literally a the reason for them having urinary tract infections more often. Well, aside from the close proximity to other orifices that can cause germs to be displaced there rather easily. Penises are very conveniently leading away from the anus that way. By being a longer, more complex system.

I just came from a KZread live stream chat with a rather heated discussion about lgbtq+ topics. After a short while I felt so triggered that I needed something to cool off. Honestly, I was in shock seeing such a lack of understanding specifically for what trans people go through. Most of the people around me and my online Bubble is very accepting and open towards these things. Anyway, I really needed a pick me up and this video was just perfect.

@JustSaralius

2 жыл бұрын

Oof! Sending hugs! 🌈❤

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

Oof. I can imagine... Honestly, I've only started actively trying to seek out better education in that sphere myself over the past year or two, and although I certainly wasn't bigoted prior to that, I would definitely say I didn't have much understanding of what being trans in particular actually entails, AND just how much discrimination still exists against LGBT+ people in general around the world? I suspect most of the people in your recent discussion thread are probably coming from a similar place of widespread ignorance, even those who aren't actively being bigoted, and of course (the internet being the internet!) most people will double-down on their ignorance in discussions rather than seeking to rectify it.. ? 😕 Sigh! It can be really frustrating participating in those kinds of discussions. Just from having observed my own Dad over that same timeframe, I'd say people learning more and giving up their prejudices can absolutely happen, but it can't really be forced? All we can do is make true info available, and over time it really does get through to some of them, even though others will choose to remain uninformed and aggressively so. Probably works best when info's coming from someone who they know though...?

@John_Weiss

2 жыл бұрын

That's awful that you had to go through that. ☹️ Just remember: You are not The Jerk Whisperer. At some point, you just have to write people off as hateful jackasses and end all interaction with them. I was just commenting on a video with Roly and Luxeria how gay men of my age [Gen-X] just assumed all heteros hated us until they proved themselves. And not in an angry sort of way, just as a matter of fact: the sky is blue, rain is wet, and str8s hate us gay men. It acted as armor: we expected the hostility, so we were ready for it when it reared its ugly head. So at some point, when I encounter homophobic crap, my old reflexes kick in and I start telling the homophobe that they want to harm me. Or if it's a transphobic attack, I counter with, "So you want to kill all trans people." And then I just continue to assert that intent of harm into everything they say. But yeah, it still does get exhausting.I'll leave you with a line from, "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert": Don't let it tear you down. Let it toughen you up. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

@be_me

2 жыл бұрын

I've never gotten such nice and kind replies on any comment I've ever written. This community really is a place of comfort and wholesomeness. Thank you to everyone 🏳️‍🌈💖

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

@@John_Weiss"You are not The Jerk Whisperer!!" Perfect 😁 I think we all need that reminder from time to time tbh 🙄

I WISH I could just retreat into myself like a friggin turtle! Imagine how much easier it would be to tell everyone that you don't wanna socialize at the moment if everyone could do that

@pearlofthedarkage

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Some days I just want to roll myself in a blanket and be a burrito for the day.

5:59 Using a metaphor to describe how indirect someone is is the most ironic thing I’ve ever heard

I'd give the "microscopic waistline" a pass. It's just an exaggeration to emphasize that she was really slender. Literary liberty, not tailoring instructions. The "waist that a single hand could enclasp" though... that IS a visual description... and one that hurts while reading.

@John_Weiss

2 жыл бұрын

Considering that the human spine is thicker than what a human hand could get around? That's bone-crushingly painful to read.

@juliamichelle2770

2 жыл бұрын

I think maybe they mean that from one side to the other is the distance from a man's thumb to pinky? Which is still super small but actually possible.

@ivetterodriguez1994

2 жыл бұрын

I assumed they meant just the front and not the whole wrap around the waist and that they have large hands.

@TheKarret

2 жыл бұрын

@@ivetterodriguez1994 enclasp means to hold, right? Like bring your fingers around to _enclasp_ it.

You're braver than I. I can't go on this subreddit without wanting to cry. Thank you for being the buffer and making it tolerable :)

Someone once said that the real culprit in these situations is "being on horny on main". But goddamn, I don't think most female writers would even think to, let alone attempt to, replicate the sheer absurdity of the descriptions some of these male writers give.

6:20 also, keep in mind that the male (penile) urethra is considerably longer than the female urethra, as well as being the tube for two different types of fluids, so it ends up being more complex than the female, which serves only one purpose.

3:15 That description takes the line "No one wants a waist over 9 inches" from SIX to a _whole_ new level.

My Dad bought me some of his favorite books for my birthday since I love to read so we could talk about them, but they are chock full of this stuff and I don't know how to tell him how weird it is.

3:45 Not just men either, alas! Particularly when reading older works, female writers' internalized misogyny can also stick out pretty glaringly...? That and/or the fact they were writing women in a way they thought would be marketable to men of their time who were reading their books? (Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers is a clear example that springs immediately to mind - despite having a strong female co-protagonist in many of her later books, a lot of her writing about women makes me wince... especially single or lesbian women, yikes.)

@KamenRiderFeline

2 жыл бұрын

It's not just the older works either. Pick up a YA romance and you'll probably find a protagonist that hates other women simply because they exist and derides them as ugly, dirty, shameful, stupid and whatever else. And those books are typically written by women and marketed to them too. The internalized misogyny is still going strong. edit: typo

@EveryTimeV2

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe she is jealous.

These descriptions make me really dysphoric tbh :’) I’ve never been skinny, never typically feminine, and on my feminine days I doubt myself so much I think the reason I’m nb is because I couldn’t be the girl society wants me to be

@whoknows4780

2 жыл бұрын

Ouch can we turn down the big mood (I feel you. We’re just doing our best and there’s never a template for that 💙)

@PeacheIIe

2 жыл бұрын

SCREW SOCIETY!!!

@JustSaralius

2 жыл бұрын

Society sucks! And you don't have to feel like you need to be able to label your gender in a clear cut way all the time. It's fine to be confused about it. Being an afab person is so difficult because of the strange and ridiculous expectations put on us. Whatever you feel, it's fine to not know and to explore different possibilities to figure out where you might feel happy in yourself. You have your entire life to explore your identity and the world around you. There is no rush. You can't do it wrong.

@silvermoonpie7942

2 жыл бұрын

Society’s expectations for women are the epitome of r/menwritingwomen. I’m convinced none actually exist that would meet such strict criteria!

@diarmuidkuhle8181

2 жыл бұрын

@@JustSaralius Unfortunately yes, you absolutely can do it wrong. Ever heard of Kira Bell?... And she's not exactly an isolated case. We're heading into very bad territory when we're convincing young girls and women that unless they're walking Barbie doll stereotypes, or if they're resentful of certain social expectations, then that must mean that they're somehow 'not really female'.

Isn't a woman version of Indiana Jones just Lara Croft 🤔 and a Nathan Drake is a male version of Lara Croft 🤔

@xenodragonlord6007

2 жыл бұрын

I gotta add onto this: I fucking love Lara Croft and how they didn't completely sexualise her in later games. She's legit a strong woman character.

@xenodragonlord6007

2 жыл бұрын

@@krimsonkatt I have played Shadow of the Tomb Raider and Rise of the Tomb Raider and enjoyed both But I can respect not liking a game, not everyone has to like all of them.

@whoknows4780

2 жыл бұрын

Now they need a female version of Nathan Drake to continue the cycle.

Well this just made my day. Just cried because of my grandpa's passing (back in dec 2021, but I just can't get over it) You always manage to make my day better. Thank you, Jamie

@shadowcat4529

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry 💕

@voloschukmykola2921

2 жыл бұрын

I wish you the best!

@AnimosityKate

2 жыл бұрын

I'm sorry for your loss. Grief has no expiration date. Don't be too hard on yourself for not getting over it quickly enough, healing is a process that takes its time. 💕

@silvermoonpie7942

2 жыл бұрын

I’m sure you’ve heard this already but it’s more learning to live with a new normal and feeling it when you feel it, than getting over grief. It can hit you in the strangest moments and ways. My grandma passed away twenty years ago this year and it still hits sometimes. Wishing you peace 💛

omg the thought he gave the "floating nipples" made me laugh out loud 🤣 epic. love you, jamie ❤

Men writing Women? lemme try one: "Upon laying starstruck eyes on the man's watermelon-like muscles, her ability to form coherent words was becoming harder than the fangirl excitement growing underneath her skirt"

@Froge4291

2 жыл бұрын

What the fuck?

@pikaqte5418

2 жыл бұрын

Accurate/joking Accurate for the reddit anyways LMAO

I love it when you cover this subreddit - you and OT both do a wonderful job poking fun at these terrible depictions. Feel better!

hearing jamie say "tootsie rolls" over and over was delightful, the accent made it so funmy

“jones is an incredibly common surname for people or any gender” dude why did this made me crack up for a solid 5 mins

There was a line in a 50s show I watched once that was so bad it was hilarious: Man: did you see the murderer (paraphrased for context) Woman: No, I was too weak and stupid to look at him. And it was cold which made my nipples harden and caused me to menstruate. 🤣🤣🤣

@lucycagle3467

Жыл бұрын

Brooo

Alt video title: "Woman are not grapes"

I'm dying of stress but also,,, men writing women badly

I’m really, really glad that I have the experience of being trans for when/if I ever write books. I mean, reading some basic anatomy and health guidelines would have instantly helped any of these

As a male romance writer, this is why my characters are men.

Some of these really makes me think of the podcast “my dad wrote a porno”, so many weird descriptions, so much hilarity!

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

Oooh... Sounds like maybe I have another good podcast to go add to the (increasingly endless 🙄) "To Try" list!! Thank you 😁

@gaildahlas

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, yes... pomegranates.

@Cascadeis

2 жыл бұрын

@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 Just don’t listen on the bus - there’s a lot of laugh out loud moments!

@anna_in_aotearoa3166

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cascadeis Good point!! 😆 Already got caught out that way several times when re-reading Pratchett books...

Adjacent to the cutting hair part: my pet peeve in movies is when a combat trained woman goes to (any kind) of battle or fight with her long hair out and about, obscuring her view! I almost cried when in Birds of Prey Dinah asks Harley for a hair tie in the final battle.

I think my favourite one from this subreddit is the one where "breasts went past", with no acknowledgement of the woman they're attached to.

Hey, Jamie. Lovely, relaxing video as always. I just wanted to say thank you for existing on this platform. The first time I ever found your channel and heard you say your name I said to myself "Haha Jamie is such a great name for a guy. If I was a guy, I would be named Jamie. Haha, that would be so funny cause I'm totally not a guy, haha." And here I am now, taking the first steps into socially transitioning. I have named myself Jamie. Thank you for being one of the inspirations that made me believe that my identity is valid and that I would be loved for who I am.

3:45 THIS. I was just talking to a friend about how i felt like i was being sexist cause i didnt like alot of women in shows and such, but i realised that i DO like women in media, just not terribly written women by men. For example, i absolutely LOVE the entire cast of steven universe or the she-ra remake, but i HATE so many poorly written women who have dry or toxic personalities. They are extremely stereotyped and boring. Its a really problematic issue with shows and movies :(

I love seeing videos on this subreddit, it's... interesting, to say the least. I'm also a bit sick at the moment, I hope Jamie feels better soon ^^

@sisuguillam5109

2 жыл бұрын

Get well soon, Paranoia!

@orion_ornak

2 жыл бұрын

You too! Get well soon! Take care 🤗

really needed this. i was having a bad week because im PMS-ing and my body is all bloated and i was so worried about not looking good but this video really was like a reminder that im more than just my body and i do not need to have my body look in shape at all times. thank you

By far one of my favorite 'men writing women badly'. As always, your reactions make everything that much more hilarious. Brilliantly done sir!

the Indiana Jones post implies his first name is Jones, he just inserted the Indiana to differentiate himself from... idk, Texas Jones lol

@whoknows4780

2 жыл бұрын

Everything’s bigger on Texas Jones. Arizona Jones is the hottest Jones. Alabama Jones is the most racist Jones. Michigan Jones works on cars. Vermont Jones is just Bernie Sanders with the hat, demanding the bad guys pay their taxes from all their stolen artifacts so the community can at least benefit from their literal theft as an extension of societal theft due to capitalism. Rhode Island Jones is short.

You are braver than you think, more talented than you know, and capable of more than you imagine. the world is infinite and it has infinite possibilities for you to encounter, keep going and never give up.

@Ghostinasuit

2 жыл бұрын

No

@MouseTheGoblin

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ghostinasuit suck

@Sophie-mv7bd

2 жыл бұрын

I'm struggling with that alot right now so thank you so much

@dees3179

2 жыл бұрын

Today actually went ok. Hope some others are doing well. Lots of hugs and thanks cactus.

@sisuguillam5109

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ghostinasuit that is a possibility too but it probably will get you nowhere.

So, women are essentially boob-tortoises?

she's not a grape had me cryying!

4:14 I planned to name one of my future kids Brennan someday. I can't now.

I’ve actually read the Stephen King short story the passage about the woman whose boobs and butt disappear is from. It actually makes sense in context. She goes through a traumatic miscarriage and divorce and finds solace in running but it becomes and unhealthy coping mechanism and she ends up running so much and for so long that she has very powerful legs but is basically skin and bone cause she doesn’t really eat. Her legs and running abilities become a huge asset later on when she faces a serial killer and it’s actually a decent story about confronting trauma and obsessive behavior versus self care

I think the beer/waistline thing may refer to bloat caused by the carbonation, disruption to good gut flora, and the rapid metabolic conversion to glucose. Like she doesn't look like someone who consumes large volumes of beer, bc she maintains an unbloated appearance...

I had an ex-bf tell me once that I was heavier than his ex-gf, but thankfully, I didn't seem to have much cellulite. He was confused by this. Also the bf that told me he wouldn't be attracted to me if I gained 30 pounds. Thankful I now have a bf who loves me for me and thinks I'm sexy no matter how I look.

Sending health vibes, hope you get over your cold soon! I love these 'men writing women badly' things, some of them are obviously just men oversexualizing woman's bodies and/or only talking about the 'hot' or 'sexy' parts of the body, but some seem legitimately confused about what woman's bodies actually are and how they work.

Thanks for always being there to fill my life with humor.

I just saw one like this this morning, basically the woman was sad about being older and of course there had to be a (badly translated) "she used to have firm breasts" or something like that to imply that her boobs were softer and less well held than when she was young and idk that sounds really weird to me

@DeathnoteBB

2 жыл бұрын

Honestly I’m unconvinced “firm breasts” are even a thing. I swear they mean perky

@JustSaralius

2 жыл бұрын

I was really skinny growing up and had small breasts until my early 20s when I gained a lot of weight due to medications. My breasts were definitely more firm when they were small.

@Prismatic_Truth

2 жыл бұрын

My breasts were much firmer before I breastfed two kids for several years. Breasts definitely do change in firmness/softness.

certain surnames do change depending on gender in certain languages (i.e. Polish) Jones is not one of them

3:45 that one hit hard

I enjoyed the bad mens anatomy far more than I should have. Like I genuinely want that to be a thing that happens and is considered normal by society.

Someone I follow was that last comment you showed and I found you thanks to them. I am now subbed. This was beautiful 🤣 my sides hurt from laughing at the horrendous descriptions

Got an ad with you in it on this video 😂 that damn switch craft advert is everywhere

Thank you for your videos. A few days ago, I think I realised that I am either trans masc or trans man. Your videos are awesome and really helpful. You and One Topic at a Time are a safe space for me. I am unsure who I am but then I went shopping a few days ago and tried clothes from the man's section, I had the feeling I would see myself for the first time in ever in the mirror. I nearly cried of happiness. Luckily, my surrounding is awesome and supportive. I have the feeling I can discover who I am. Still, it feels like the informations haven't made it yet to my brain. And I am afraid of some things that come with bein trans. Either way, I love you and thanks for all!

I'm so glad this is a recognised thing now. So many years trying to explain to my male friends why I could only get 1/3 of the way through a book they enthusiastically recommended to me. It's not even that I want the books to be feministic or anything like that, I just want the characters to be believable so I can get invested in the plot.

I really needed this. I’m like literally so overwhelmed right now. and I’ve been crying for like thirty minutes. I came too KZread to try and save me before I go to bed. thanks.

in high school, one of the girls in my class was about 4'1" tall and some tall boy (her boyfriend at the time i think) could ALMOST get his hands to touch around her waist, she was so small but he also had big hands and was two feet taller than her

@wareforcoin5780

2 жыл бұрын

When I was in high school, I was 5'3" (and never got any taller), and around 98 - 105 pounds. My boyfriend was 6'3" (he _did_ get taller), and as such, could fit his hands (yes, _hands,_ as in plural) around my waist. It's not impossible for this to happen, but it's highly unlikely that unless there's a whole foot difference and the "woman" is in fact a teenage girl, this will happen. If I lost some weight, he might be able to just about get his hands around me. _Maybe._ That's more to do with his hands just being really big rather than my waist ever getting to a point where you'd describe it as "microscopic." One hand won't be possible in anyone. That's not how adults work.

@cursedkaleidoscope

2 жыл бұрын

@@wareforcoin5780 it's definitely not how adults work, but can we talk about how most people couldn't get a hand around a BABY'S waist

@John_Weiss

2 жыл бұрын

I find this really surprising, since the adult human spine is typically larger than what someone could get a hand around. But I mean "completely clasp", not "touch the tip of the middle-finger to the tip of the thumb." Also, I just tried to get my hands to touch around _one of my calf muscles._ I can just get them to touch. I'm a 6'2" tall man, BTW. So I'm now sitting here trying to imagine a teenage girl with a waistline as narrow as my calf-muscles. That's … freakish.

@SkwithOv

2 жыл бұрын

@@wareforcoin5780 literally the people i mentioned had a TWO foot height difference and i vividly remember them doing it in the back of class at my table as a dare type thing to see if it was possible because she was just over 4 feet tall and thin, and he was like 6 feet tall with big hands his fingers touched (yes, both hands) barely it was ridiculous to see irl because it definitely seems like something that's impossible i remember them doing it several more times that week because nobody believed them and yes that girl never hit 5 foot, i think she got to about 4'6" or so shes just tiny at the time i think she was like 50lbs, so i mean she was really small

@SkwithOv

2 жыл бұрын

@@John_Weiss yeah, don't call peoples bodies freakish, that's really gross she was barely over four feet tall, maybe 50lbs, and he was six feet tall it was ridiculous and i remember being there the first time they tried it and also having multiple people talk about it and having them do it several more times she had a medical condition (i have no idea what, as it's none of my business and she never told me) so it's extra gross to call her freakish

The Star Wars one used to bug me so much until I read about the Palpatine theory. Which is Palpatine took the life force from Padmé and gave it to Anakin.

@mastermarkus5307

2 жыл бұрын

It's still annoying that fans have to essentially make up good reasons for the bad writing though.

@whoknows4780

2 жыл бұрын

They could have took out the “we don’t know why she’s dying” and all plausible theories would be justified. Like, he crushed her windpipe. The combination of the loss of blood to the brain and childbirth. There is such thing as broken heart in a medical sense, which can worsen cardiovascular health. But the writers said that with Anakin turning to the dark side, Padme has failed to save her boyfriend from his own decisions, Padme needed to die to fulfill Anakin’s prophecy, and we have to make it look like his overbearing love killed her because she couldn’t survive without it.

I too am sick, so thank you for making my day better with this

Thank you for more wonderful videos. I hope you feel better soon! (And I hope it’s not the dreaded Lurgy!!) 💜

I just got an ad by Jamie on his own video! Confused the heck out of me for a moment but happy for him :)

6:29 people who run a lot actually have bigger butts due to the muscle buildup, so the author couldn't even get that right

@Prismatic_Truth

2 жыл бұрын

Most endurance runners I've seen are extremely (like, frighteningly) skinny & wiry.

@divine555

2 жыл бұрын

That's obviously fake, it doesn't even make sense 🤣🤣

“She is not a grape!” I died laughing at that line! 😂

I'm just getting over a cold and it's no fun. I hope you get feeling better!

Sorry you're not feeling well! Hope you find some comfort and peace while you recover! ❤️ Thanks for the laughs today tho!

Fairly sure the "breasts for years one" is written by a woman, and meant to be satire

6:41 Strange anatomical assessment aside, what does putting books on empty shelves have to do with running 6-7 miles a day?

This is why ive always loved the post that says "the longer the narrating character takes to physically describe someone, the longer theyre staring at that person in the moment." Because like... it just a great visceral way of explaining just how creepy it is to randomly give detailed visual descriptions of someone when its completely unnecessary/irrelevant (ie the foot rock post).

1:22 "Is there a reason it's written like this?" ACTUALLY I THINK YES. I am 98% sure this is from the beginning of Daniel O'Malley's The Rook, which begins with the main character waking from a magic attack (also the source of the bruises) that's left her totally amnesiac, and she's examining her body for clues about who the heck she is and what kind of person she is, hence the meticulous assessment. Which is not to say that it doesn't still sound a bit weirdly phrased in context, but there IS context. And the book as a whole is actually super enjoyable from a "women being different from each other and having agency and being the center of the plot and there's even some good solidarity." It's quite a fun book!

Oh that does it. As a freelance editor, I officially decree henceforth that the only men allowed to write about women are trans men. Come on Jamie, where's your romance manuscript?

@ciwi5992

2 жыл бұрын

I think it would be more beneficial if every cis guy had to take at least 2 anatomy classes before being allowed to publish books (even tho it would be even better if just every person had to do that ^^)

@snekysneks

2 жыл бұрын

@@ciwi5992 I second anatomy classes for everyone; I learned more about my body in my Zoology class than all of elementary, middle, and high school combined.

@orelliaorellia142

2 жыл бұрын

I disagree, there is cis men able to write good female characters. But the things is they have two things these writers in the video don't have : they respect women and write characters that happen to be women not women characters. It makes all the difference 😁 (and listening in biology classes, it definitely helps too 🙄)

@KamenRiderFeline

2 жыл бұрын

@@orelliaorellia142 Not including boob or waist size while decribing a prop women would also help at distracting from the fact that they are written as a prop and not a character.

the funny thing about the peeing one is that women's urethras are considerably shorter than men's, and therefore possess LESS maze-like qualities; also no prostrate to muck things up. not that i was expecting anatomical correctness, but still...i guess it's a mercy no one confidently stated that women pee out of their vaginas 9_9

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494

2 жыл бұрын

*prostate I'm not dumping on your comment in any way, it's a good one, but I was giggling a bit because it sounded a little like women are upright by definition - therefore enabling them to have shorter urethras - and that lying down is some kind of male... deficiency? But I'm overtired atm so to be fair I'm giggling at lots of things 😕

Writer here. My prof warned us about this in college.

Needed this one today. Thanks man!