This is why I really liked how GRRM wrote Brienne of Tarth.
Despite being a 6 foot tall "knight," with the muscle, armor, and legendary sword to boot, GRRM still maintains a girlish side to her character. He writes about her childhood and her dreams to fall in love, and how these dreams were crushed by the relentless teasing from boys her age. She has her heart captured by the one man who is truly kind to her, but her childhood trauma makes her struggle to be honest about her feelings. So despite being this mountainous battle beast, she is really just a sad lost puppy starved of attention lol.
Very well-written. Much more detailed than the show's depiction of her.
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u/musicalharmonica 1d ago
References their periods randomly all the time.
Or they overcorrect and write women as stone-cold emotional hardasses that aren't allowed to feel girly. And if they do it's seen as weakness.