20 Telltale Signs That a Man Was Written By a Woman

For a long time, including approximately now, the most popular fiction was written by men. Unfortunately, not everything was Band of Brothers, so that meant men were writing most fictional women — and failing at it. There are almost always signs. She thinks a lot about her own sexiness. She doesn’t have any thoughts or feelings unrelated to the male protagonist. She boobs boobily.

Redditor daddydonetomuch is well aware of this fact. “We all know examples of tropes that (make) it clear that a male author is writing a female character,” they told r/AskReddit. What they wanted to know, however, was “what are some that make it obvious that a female author (is) writing a male character?”

This is what their fellow Redditors came up with…