I want to say that, to me, this prompt was quite difficult to come up with something. I realized I wanted to write something from the perspective of a woman in science, and I just couldn't do it this time around. I don't have many female role models IRL to look up to in the first place, and certainly none in science (except my current physics teacher, but I've only just met her).
This prompt has made me realize also the desperate need for female role models not only in my life, but in the lives of young women and girls today. It's nice and well and good to be surrounded my successful men, and it's better than having no mentors at all, but successful men are really a dime a dozen, especially in STEM.
I really wanted to write a story about Jeannie, and I'll probably still write and post it in amnesty. But as part of the lessons I've been learning this year, I am sometimes quite frightened to write in a female voice. It seems odd to me that the things most people can't write, I can write very easily, but something so simple as writing in a female voice is a completely foreign idea to me. Even the heroine of my novel is quite masculine in her voice. And while I don't think that's a bad thing, as it is certainly who that character is, I know I am doing myself a disservice in being unable to see things from a feminine perspective--and a non-stereotypical one at that.
Cause of course it would be all too easy to fall into the fainting/lusting/hysterical/whatever stereotypes, and part of me knows that no matter how honest and real and rational I make a female character, by current societal cultural standards, she's going to be brushed off.
*sigh* All this to say, thank you for this prompt. Even though I didn't write anything this time around, I am now actively looking for female role models in my life and in science.
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This prompt has made me realize also the desperate need for female role models not only in my life, but in the lives of young women and girls today. It's nice and well and good to be surrounded my successful men, and it's better than having no mentors at all, but successful men are really a dime a dozen, especially in STEM.
I really wanted to write a story about Jeannie, and I'll probably still write and post it in amnesty. But as part of the lessons I've been learning this year, I am sometimes quite frightened to write in a female voice. It seems odd to me that the things most people can't write, I can write very easily, but something so simple as writing in a female voice is a completely foreign idea to me. Even the heroine of my novel is quite masculine in her voice. And while I don't think that's a bad thing, as it is certainly who that character is, I know I am doing myself a disservice in being unable to see things from a feminine perspective--and a non-stereotypical one at that.
Cause of course it would be all too easy to fall into the fainting/lusting/hysterical/whatever stereotypes, and part of me knows that no matter how honest and real and rational I make a female character, by current societal cultural standards, she's going to be brushed off.
*sigh* All this to say, thank you for this prompt. Even though I didn't write anything this time around, I am now actively looking for female role models in my life and in science.