All cleavage and clunkiness – why can’t male authors write women? | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

A writer challenged women to describe themselves as a male author would. The responses were hilarious, but sadly rang true

“She was 40 but could have passed for a year younger with soft lipstick and some gentle mascara. Her dress clung to the curves of her bosom which was cupped by her bra that was under it, but over the breasts that were naked inside her clothes. She had a personality and eyes.”

This is how the author Jane Casey fulfilled the challenge of describing herself as a male author would, which was set this week on Twitter by the writer Whitney Reynolds. It made me laugh out loud, as did many of the other responses. The alleged male inability to write women is not a new topic on social media; in 2016 a similar passage containing the memorable sentence, “She breasted boobiliy to the stairs, and titted downwards,” went viral.

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