There was no criticism. The message was clear. 'Line in film bad. Do out use.
I don't hold this view. I grew up under a female prime minister, female head of state, mostly women teachers. I know what women can do, and I don't expect vitriol when I reference a film in context.
I think your omission of the rest of KTC's quote might have been what caused the confusion. Remember that not all members saw that film. I did, but it was something like 20 years ago now, and I had to think about that quote to realize it was from the film itself, and not something Jack Nicholson actually said about something he'd written. It wasn't clear to me that you understood this.
Again, sorry for assuming the worse.
I'm sorry that many people who have asked this question before did so just to make their attack. That's lame and low.
I don't think all, or even most, of the AW members who have asked this question before did so to be jerks. It was more the attitude, that women are an unknowable "other," or that we are women first and people second, that ruffles feathers.
Plugging the term "how to write female characters" and "how to write from a female pov" alone (and there are many other permutations of this search that will cough up more links) into the thread finder at the bottom of the site's main page yields
This
and
This
So yeah, this question has come up a ton of times over the past year or so. To those of us of a female persuasion, it's a depressing reminder of how little exposure many men seem to have to our experiences as human beings. It's not fair to shoot the messenger, because I suspect a lot of the issue is the relative paucity of books and movies that have female leads that were actually written because, you know, women are half the human race and they do things and have experiences that are interesting to
everyone just as much as men do. A woman growing up any time in the past 50 years has probably read tons of novels and seen many movies written from a male perspective, but guys can skim over the offerings by women because they tend to be "ghettoized" into marketing categories like "women's fiction," which scream "This isn't for you boys," or are plugged as "Chick Flicks."
And when women do write in genres that are aimed at everyone (like SFF), they often are overlooked by critics, other (male) authors in the genre, and even by bookstore owners.
