Tuesday, May 19, 2015

How To Write About Women


Firstly include a creative title and a pleasing picture of a strong woman crossing her arms, because  you don't want to be seen as an anti-feminist by popular culture. Make sure to show you care; add a word like ''power'' or ''difference'' so you don't get any criticism. 

Always start the text off by giving the woman some background; a "clean job;" possibly a secretary or a teacher, a nurse if you wanna add some spice to the story. Make sure the woman reaches the high point of her life when she is a stay-at-home mother, because her main priority in life is pleasing her husband and children. Main lesson learnt about this story; emphasize taboo subjects. Love (unless death is involved), domestic scenes and music are good examples.

Moreover, Make sure she is small and graceful; she never goes one day without her makeup delicately applied and her hair curled. 

In your text, make sure to develop your woman as a typical feminine figure so the readers like her. You should be able to to include the famous "honey I'm home'" scene at a point of your text; where the husband comes home tired from a long day of work but is glad and dependant that "his" woman spent her whole day baking and cooking an appealing meal for him. If you want to make your woman single, make sure she is either studying to become a famous fashion designer or she's an extreme flirt. Make sure the highlights of her development and careers are filled with flashing lights, photographers, red carpets and an endless amount of makeup and hair products. 

Throughout the book, adopt an elegant and delicate tone to your writing. Always include scenes filled with luscious gardens and bouquets of flowers. If you want to include a conflict, make sure its love related and that it will always have a resolution.

I suggest that you end the book with the woman dancing through the ending scene, happy about all the cliché and perfect memories she reminisces about in the book. 

1 comment:

  1. Nice post, Zena! I really liked the inclusion of the picture at the start, it helped to set the tone for the article. The line "you don't want to be seen as anti-feminist by popular culture" is also great since it changes the focus to look at sexism today. :)

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