Timeline for How do I write a sexist narrator without coming off as sexist myself?
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| Feb 26 at 15:09 | comment | added | Stuart F | The key is to include other viewpoints; how you do that will depend on the details: it could be other characters, or self-doubt, or cosmic accidents, or a talking animal. | |
| Feb 25 at 22:50 | comment | added | Laurence | However you spin this, if YOU are personifying a character with unacceptable views, some of the disapprobation will rub off on you. | |
| Feb 25 at 22:49 | comment | added | Barmar | Is the narrator a character in the story, or a third-person omniscient narrator? | |
| Feb 24 at 18:59 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Does '… voicing it myself…' mean literally, on the movie sound-track? Either way, why might that be a problem? How is your worry different from any narrator or actor fearing coming off as sexist, misogynist or anything else reprehensible? What reason do you have to believe Michael Caine or Jude law is sexist or misogynistic? Look again at their versions of Alfie; Caine in 1966 and Law in 2004. Almost every sentence the character utters is wholly reprehensible but has that stuck to either actor? | |
| Feb 24 at 17:48 | answer | added | Amrita Bithi | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 24 at 12:56 | comment | added | Michael Harvey | Skill will get you through. I think Vladimir Nabokov did a pretty fine job in Lolita of ensuring that only the most stupid of readers would think that he himself was a paedophile. Unfortunately such people do exist. | |
| Feb 24 at 12:19 | comment | added | kaya3 | Is the narrator also a character in the movie, or just a disembodied voice? | |
| Feb 23 at 20:56 | answer | added | Slav | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 23 at 15:17 | answer | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 23 at 13:45 | comment | added | Divizna | It would be easier for me to answer if I knew if it's a typical story movie or some other kind (say, a mockumentary), if the narrator is voiceover only or shown on-screen talking to the audience, and if the narrator is the same as a main character, or stands extra. | |
| Feb 23 at 11:16 | history | edited | JRE | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 23 at 8:57 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks is a prime example for a first person narrator most people would rather not identify with. The tension arises from the narrator reporting matter-of-factly the most outraging acts and events. The reader, assuming the narrator-proponent's perspective, is taken for a hell of a ride. Highly recommended, but not for the faint of heart. | |
| Feb 23 at 5:37 | answer | added | Flater | timeline score: 4 | |
| Feb 23 at 3:42 | answer | added | Allure | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 23 at 1:16 | answer | added | Kevin | timeline score: 7 | |
| S Feb 22 at 23:31 | history | suggested | ShadowOfHassen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22 at 19:56 | answer | added | Ben | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 22 at 15:11 | comment | added | Laurel♦ | Highly related: How to write a convincing character with a opinion that differs from the author's? | |
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| S Feb 22 at 15:07 | history | asked | FMurphy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |