I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
Men are distinguished from women by their commitment to do violence rather than to be victimized by it.
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.
Most male victims of violence are the victims of other men's violence. So that's something that both women and men have in common. We are both victims of men's violence.
As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.