Why Men Shouldn’t Write Women

[@Jammidodger]

Go to squarespace.com/jammidodger to get a free trial and 10% off your first purchase of a website or domain. Let me know what job I should do next!

[@Edward_Louis]

Genetically modify woodlice to be the size of horses and train them so you can ride them as a sustainable mode of transport

[@rosieg6989]

Jamie, are you going to do a video covering the unscientific Cass Report and cover the possible ramifications it'll have for trans people in England/the UK?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Anteater Detective Agency

[@JJ5_dragon_heart]

Bird basketball training classes

[@Beyontle]

You are the guy making the toons looney

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Moral of the Story: The subReddit feels like a hot tea cup full of eels

[@barrylangille3523]

It does doesn't it...

[@MusicMan27_]

Electric eels in an electrical storm lol

[@missnaomi613]

The Moray of the story, perhaps?

[@Oramgejuice]

Moral of the story: grinky pigs is gone :(

[@inkdd1463]

In a good way (as that one author thinks) or a bad way (as literally everyone else thinks)?

[@fyrefli4109]

PSA: If you feel like you may suffer from JOS (Jiggling Ovary Syndrome) please make haste to your GP and demand an OB/GYN referral, ASAP. No one should have to suffer the jiggle in silence ... no matter how hot the person who has just caught your eye may be!

[@Maerahn]

Is it bad that when Jamie read that passage I immediately thought of that moment in The Rings of Power where the Numenoreans are standing on the beach and yelling "The SEA is ALWAYS RIGHT!" - but mentally replacing it with "The OVARIES are ALWAYS RIGHT!"

[@thatotherted3555]

"No one should have to suffer The Jiggle in silence" -I just had to add some Dramatic Capitalization. And now I'm also thinking of how a recent Doctor Who episode was called "The Giggle", which sounds very similar to "The Jiggle"

[@silverstormsfury5349]

All I could think was "That is a weird way to say 'butterflies in the tummy'"

[@Thesunmaid]

Do you suffer from JOS? Ask your doctor if femitol is right for you. ..may cause your lips to feel like a tea cup of hot eels or reduce your body to nothing but a pair of legs in stilletos and make the breasts migrate to your shoulders and increased danger of injury but dangerous nipples as well as dry mouth.

[@people2chronically-online]

I find this subreddit funny cause no one points out females who write men are literally just worried fetishtistic content, they always write some daddy stuff or some criminal who only has a heart for them

[@WantedVisual]

This video taught me women do not go to the bathroom mainly to do bathroom things. They do it whenever they want to do something vaguely sexy in the middle of the day, in front of an invisible narrator who lost their thesaurus and is using Bing instead of getting a new one.

[@tracygeddes5867]

Thank you,I can’t stop laughing.

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

And there was me thinking they only go to the bathroom to talk shit about men.

[@people2chronically-online]

I find this subreddit funny cause no one points out females who write men are literally just worried fetishtistic content, they always write some daddy stuff or some criminal who only has a heart for them

[@shadowldrago]

@@diarmuidkuhle8181 Why not both?

[@PokhrajRoy.]

3:42 So, they’re Jahoobies Witness

[@DestructionGlitter]

That made me laugh out loud, thank you!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

@@DestructionGlitter Haha thanks

[@CatDadTheCyborg]

@@DestructionGlitter Me four. Oh boy, that was a good one.

[@stephenie44]

I took a sip of tea while reading this and you made me laugh so hard I could barely keep myself from spitting it out.

[@waffles3629]

😂 LMAO

[@Sylvkin]

This subreddit never fails to make face palm

[@_dazai_soukoku]

@@Waffle_God49me too 😭

[@LemonAid82]

@@Waffle_God49same

[@witchytaedragon]

@imataterI Just reported your video and channel

[@Xanderj89]

The wave of disbelief that washes over my body as my eyes go wide and my mouth drops, is weirdly relaxing lol

[@lemonpie8157]

It reminds me that even regular things we do will be sexualised. I hate it.

[@falvlynn2303]

I have a job idea you could try out: In German, we have an old timey word for an astronomer, that literally translates to "sky mechanic" - and I always imagined being a sky mechanic must be really fun. You can duct tape moons to their planets so they don't run away, change the lightbulbs in stars to keep them shining and oil spinning black holes so they keep rotating smoothly!

[@Indigo_Shard]

Ooo I like that idea mind if I use it one day maybe try drawing it (once I practice more)

[@ManILoveFurina]

It's not the main focus, but there's a manga called Aria where some people maintain the climate and gravity of a terraformed Mars. I recommend it, it's really comfy.

[@lingodelfo5415]

​@@Indigo_Shard oooh I had a children's book like that!

[@chesh1rek1tten]

As a German.. Was für ein Wort? Ich komme absolut nicht drauf, was das sein könnte?!

[@lyricsmind]

​@@chesh1rek1tten actually looked it up because I also didn't know - it's literally " Himmelsmechaniker" haven't heard it before either😅

[@roarmaus]

15:25 Romancing Cthulhu: The Deadly Smooch with the Ancient Horror.

[@solosynapse]

Sucker For Love? (It's a real, hilarious, dating sim)

[@people2chronically-online]

I find this subreddit funny cause no one points out females who write men are literally just worried fetishtistic content, they always write some daddy stuff or some criminal who only has a heart for them

[@wonderlanddedemonanastasi]

That sounds like a Sims 3 book title

[@hawkeyescoffee6399]

Can I interest you in making Trampolines for Frogs? Launch pads, if you will?! 😂

[@t3hwaddledee]

Toad Stools for those who would rather not jump, so they can sit comfortably and watch 👀

[@bottomofastairwell]

i support this

[@people2chronically-online]

I find this subreddit funny cause no one points out females who write men are literally just worried fetishtistic content, they always write some daddy stuff or some criminal who only has a heart for them

[@TiffanyAllen1784]

These people think thirty something is old because laws are the only reason they aren’t pursuing young teenagers. It’s disturbing.

[@rosieg6989]

In Kentucky being with a 10 year old is now legal.

[@Yourlocalwerido.]

@@rosieg6989excuse me, WHAT?

[@joshuacoleman8000]

​@@rosieg6989When did this sh!t happen?!

[@rosieg6989]

@@joshuacoleman8000 I think it has now been stopped, but when they brought back the 1800s anti-abortion law the other part of the law specified it was legal for ten year olds or older to get married as long as the person they are marrying is also older than ten.

[@barrylangille3523]

Perhaps the guinea pigs would benefit from an interior design business. Those habitats can get pretty boring...

[@Milo-hp9fw]

Looking for houses for my guinea pigs can be a long process. It's hard to find one that's fun and functional! Thelma and Louise deserve only the finest of houses. (I actually do have 2 guinea pigs named Thelma and Louise. They are adorable)

[@davidmadly]

Guinea pig habitat feng shui, because our little friends deserve positive energy flow too

[@people2chronically-online]

I find this subreddit funny cause no one points out females who write men are literally just worried fetishtistic content, they always write some daddy stuff or some criminal who only has a heart for them

[@conlon4332]

16:34 If the narrator is very close to the ground this would actually make a lot of sense. Like if they're a dog, or a person lying on the floor, or a young child, because from that angle you would mostly see people's legs, and this would a good way of emerging the reader in that perspective.

[@_ductape_471]

That's what I was thinking. That one really depends on context.

[@kittykaati]

Could as well be some monster fantasy thing where there are literally just the legs walking without other parts of the body attached :D

[@wonderlanddedemonanastasi]

Yeah, I write my roleplay player character's perspective like this. Like he'd be in his own little world in a ponder and the narration would be "myriad legs, both hellbend and human, trod port and starboard in his vision" (he is a sailor of the hellbend race, a race unique to the roleplay forum in question). Or someone may come up to him and I'd describe them as a blob of colors with a gait and posture and body language identifying them as x friend or colleague of his, or some other notable feature, because he is nearsighted and only wears his glasses when he needs to see far away.

[@shadowldrago]

I feel like if one is not a woman and, as a result, uncertain as to how to write a woman, it might be prudent to ask an actual woman. But, there I go being reasonable again.

[@GayLesbianAutisticSmithsFan]

so you think any of these are ok? half of them are pedophilic and/or misogynistic

[@LemonAid82]

@@GayLesbianAutisticSmithsFanhuh?

[@DigiVixen]

@@GayLesbianAutisticSmithsFan What are you on about? The OP literally just said they weren't okay with these. They were conveying that the things that you're bringing up are a result of views that are instilled in them due to them not doing as they prescribed. They are saying that if men actually talked to women, and consulted women when writing about and describing women, then these issues would probably be lessened, and apparently such a suggestion is too difficult for these men- even though it is a reasonable suggestion to make.

[@GayLesbianAutisticSmithsFan]

@@DigiVixen i misunderstood

[@tacotamer]

what do women know about being a woman? /sarcasm/

[@ShinyAvalon]

The Stephen King quote...I can clear that up. It was almost certainly _not_ meant to be titilating. King was famous for describing specific, mundane details of life, including brand names (Underalls were _very_ trendy back then), and the sort of gestures and actions everyone does, but few people notice or comment on. With all the layers of clothes we wore even as recently as the 1970s (Underalls were actually eliminating a layer by combining underpants with panty hose), women DID often walk out of the stall adjusting things, especially if they were in a hurry (on a break or at lunch). (Just getting the darn hose up was a major operation at times.) It was considered a normal detail of life, and not particularly sexy.

[@Minyassa]

And likely he saw his wife do that same move walking away from the toilet in their home as a matter of course...it just meant "I'm in automatic mode and not thinking about running into some random guy".

[@AnnekeOosterink]

I mean, not in a public toilet though. I never once was still pulling up my underwear with my skirt around my waist in any public bathroom. That shit gets put in place before I unlock the door. I might adjust a little, or have to pull my skirt straight in the public area, but I very very definitely did not pull my skirt up to my waist to so that.

[@ShinyAvalon]

@@AnnekeOosterink - I didn't, either, but I've seen other women who did. Especially if you were somewhere where you knew most of the women who might be in there, like at work. Back then, 40-50 years ago, people were a lot more casual about stuff like that than they are now.

[@CrissaKentavr]

Yeah, this character was childish, without care. It was a character-describing moment in a post-pandemic (population-draining) world.

[@meldanesetrilova7052]

Agree - except he *is* famous for… not was yet, surely? Unless I’ve missed something?

[@Maerahn]

Okay, so when did the world of MenWritingWomen introduce this new contest for coming up with the most off-the-wall and low-key terrifying way to describe breasts? Because I feel like this has escalated since we last looked at this subreddit!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Quote of the Day: “Feet go on the ground.”

[@irrelevant_noob]

10:15

[@t3hwaddledee]

My favorite ever from a “men writing women” thing was something like “his big old ween cast a massive shadow” or something. I couldn’t get over “big old ween”.

[@MistressofHeaven]

His face though… 😂

[@stylis666]

Reminds me of a saying: The world is at your feet. I should hope it is, otherwise I have to check my bearings and my brains.

[@people2chronically-online]

I find this subreddit funny cause no one points out females who write men are literally just worried fetishtistic content, they always write some daddy stuff or some criminal who only has a heart for them

[@girlwithtehface5880]

12:10 Nipples: Finesse, light weapon, 1d4 piercing damage, advantage against creatures attracted to women. Edit: Advantage against creatures attracted to the wielder.

[@girlwithtehface5880]

@@TheWerewolfOfNorway-mf5jz Honestly, I was just trying to have some fun and not think about transphobia for a bit. Regardless I'm living in Canada and, as I understand, we're going to be accepting transgender refugees from other developed nations that are revoking trans rights. I know fleeing your country is probably one of the worst results you could think of, but it might be the best option considering the way the UK is going.

[@proserpina4448]

I think this weapon makes psychic damage. Roll with advantage when rejecting the person attracted to you.

[@heidim7732]

You may laugh, but I've been told that Canadian nipples can cut glass. It's not a bra, it's another layer of insulation.

[@Resilient_Sage88]

Machine Gun Jubblies? How did I miss those baby? Perhaps next time you should try foreplay.

[@rhokesh4391]

Ah, that's what it feels like to fail your saving throw against Tasha's Hideous Laughter ;)

[@MorgenPeschke]

12:13 It's right there in the Character Creation section of the Player's Guide: "Characters with nipples get an additional melee attack per round that deals 1d4 piercing damage per cup size above AA. "Attacks made when the temperature is below 50F have advantage, and can cut glass on a critical hit."

[@Amethystar]

I was just wondering if it would be bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, but maybe that would depend on the weather. And the way men write about them, they're definitely magical items.

[@starscreamthecruel8026]

Paraphrasing Bob from Monsters Vs Aliens: Is it just legs? Did they just capture a giant pair of legs?

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

3:41 _"Jahoobies"_ is an old term I remember from when I was a child, but it means _something silly or ridiculous,_ having nothing to do with breasts. Seems you got it right by instinct though. lols Good job. Edit: Also, if I'm not mistaken.. _Underalls_ was originally a brand of childrens underwear.

[@ladyfox7193]

I think that's Underoos

[@je1073]

Yes, you're thinking Underoos. I still sometimes refer to my underwear as Underoos...but if said Underoos need adjusting, I do it BEFORE I come out of the bathroom stall.

[@merri-toddwebster2473]

King uses a lot of regional dialect words (some of which I think he just makes up) and also makes a lot of very specific pop culture and product references in his work. Such as "jahoobies" and "Underalls" *g*

[@amandacollins2556]

I remember Underoos. I had a Wonder Woman themed set 😅 ​@ladyfox7193

[@lingodelfo5415]

That also sounds like something Click would use xDD also, could jahoobies thus be used by pre-op trans men and enbys and such, since breasts and something ridiculous would be quite synonymous for them, I would imagine?.. (ciswoman here, so please correct me if that was not funny)

[@vampmoon]

Jiggling ovaries sounds like a medical issue 😂

[@missnaomi613]

As someone who has ovaries, this was exactly my response!

[@christiaanterveen4633]

To the Dutch not really. Jiggling ovaries, or more directly translated rattling ovaries (rammelende eierstokken), is a common phrase to describe women with a strong wish for children, especially when they are getting older.

[@missnaomi613]

@@christiaanterveen4633 interesting cultural lesson. Thank you.

[@poisonedkilljoy9304]

it sounds like the exact inverse of endo to me ngl

[@people2chronically-online]

I find this subreddit funny cause no one points out females who write men are literally just worried fetishtistic content, they always write some daddy stuff or some criminal who only has a heart for them

[@MissJRR13]

Jiggling Ovaries is a hell of a punk rock band name

[@diarmuidkuhle8181]

They're right there teamed up with the famous wandering uterus. ... Honestly grade 1 biology seems to have been slept through by a lot of people.

[@Jogproof]

Unless they are Baby 5 from One Piece then there's no woman shaped like a knife

[@lilnasbol]

​@andrewt4teXnot an Andrew tate meatrider

[@Milk-ck1wv]

​@andrewt4teX 🧍🏾‍♀️report em boys

[@LunarArsonist]

Glad to tell you that that dude is gone

[@witchytaedragon]

​@imataterI You would struggle to poor water out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel

[@OhCrapI_He]

​@@lilnasbolI wonder what they said (the comment was successfully deleted)

[@Respectable_Username]

On the first one, it's so interesting reading that in the context of "glue work" which often falls to women in the workplace (would recommend googling the really great blog on that topic). It is true that in _many_ situations, women actually "can't" help but to help. But that's not something that's ingrained in our nature, but rather a product of patriarchic socialisation where women are taught to make sure none of the juggling balls of life fall on the floor while men... aren't. Which means a lot of the small jobs that need doing in order to make sure everything else can keep moving, but yet aren't valued in and of themselves (eg booking meeting rooms, taking notes, remembering birthdays), are dropped by men in the workplace and left to be caught by the women. Or, more specifically, are dropped by the cishet white men and caught by the women, BIPOC, and queer team members who haven't been given the privilege in life to allow the small things to hit the floor. And yet, doing too much of this "glue work" can actually cost you in your career, because "glue work" is rarely valued by the people looking at your output. Never mind that Andrew and Brett couldn't have delivered Project X if Carrie hadn't taken time out of her own work to make sure the kickoff meeting was booked, got Brett up to speed on the codebase, been the main point of contact for newbie Dan so he didn't bug Andrew and Brett so much, handled the deployment pipeline issues would have slowed down Andrew and Brett's dev loop, dropped what she was doing to review their PRs, responded to the incident when the server went down and wrote up all the post-incident documentation, etc etc, all on top of her own workload. Carrie doing those things enabled Andrew and Brett to deliver their project, but do you think Carrie would have gotten credit for it when asking for her next promotion? And while the answer to being the one always left to pick up the "glue work" is to draw a line and just let those things hit the ground so others realise they need to pull their weight, because of female socialisation (along with the other minority socialisation) it's harder to "allow" these things to fall. When you're always having to work harder to prove you deserve to exist in a space, it's hard to turn off that perfectionism that granted you access in the first place! You've never been allowed to let things hit the floor before because that would have disqualified you, and so it's really hard to force yourself to allow it to happen, especially if it's on a team or project you care about. So yes, there is actually _some_ truth to the fact that many women can't help but help, but that's got nothing to do with biology and _everything_ to do with patriarchy!

[@robertabarnhart6240]

Hear, Hear!

[@PokhrajRoy.]

1:41 I love those keyboards too. Mechanical keyboards are hot right now.

[@JJ5_dragon_heart]

@andrewt4teXwho asked?

[@IsaFromUruguay]

They look and feel awesome! Me and my bf got low profile ones that are perfect for working and gaming. I would recommend these to anyone

[@irrelevant_noob]

1:39

[@stylis666]

@@IsaFromUruguay Low profile? Hm... sounds like something I want to look into. I'm a lazy typer because of laptops, but for many reasons I really want mechanical keys. Low profile mechanical keys would be the best for me, especially because if I learn to type less lazily, my laptops will be in for some abuse, and those aren't exactly the easiest keys to replace.

[@gryphka]

My mom has one that looks very similar and it is one of the best sounding and feeling keyboards I've used lol

[@PokhrajRoy.]

3:24 When you have nothing but need to fill the word limit.

[@marijevanderende6517]

I do sometimes adjust my dress/skirt outside of the stall, as most stalls dont have room enough to do it inside without swiping my whole skirt over the toilet seat. 😅 Especially if the door opens to the inside, so annoying! But I do check if there is noone there. 😂

[@GiaGwendoline]

And when I wear a pantyhose, I usually notice that it's not right after walking 3 steps. So then I need to adjust it...

[@AnnekeOosterink]

I often wear long and wide skirts so I tend to bunch them up in front of me, pull underwear up, and then let the front fall, while pulling the sides forward to keep the back tight against me to prevent the skirts from falling into the toilet etc. And while I do adjust things a little, especially the skirt itself, outside a stall, I do not ever walk out of the stall with my skirt rucked up around my waist.

[@Amaling]

I just wanna say, as someone who reads a lot of wlw whether novels or comics, there are plenty of male authors who can write great female characters! But… everyone has the ability to write a book including men who don’t see women as people

[@OhCrapI_He]

I think that's the whole point of r/MenWritinhWomen; making fun of the men who don't see women as people

[@MereMeerkat]

The best part is getting dismissed and told you're being dramatic when you say "some men don't see women as people."

[@Liggliluff]

(5:30) But also barely teasing too. "Raised skirt and excused panties" is basically what it says without details. Lots of words to not say much.

[@Scatscar1985]

Maybe the pair of legs walking by is the mum from "Cow And Chicken".

[@PokhrajRoy.]

Guinea Pigs Hairstyling? Fleabag would love that

[@cocovcoco]

“Not a none pizza, left beef” reference in the year of our lord 2024. Edit: there are points in this video where Jaime is channeling Luxeria and I love it.

[@brackencloud]

There are situations where you might adjust your clothes after exiting the stall. But it only makes sense when you have a complicated outfit, and there is simply not enough space in the stall, or there are too many people and you are trying to be considerate. But ive only seen anything like it in theatre productions, or conventions with lots of cosplayers

[@jannamckeen4414]

"You ever clapped an eye to" ew just hearing that makes me feel violated.

[@readerjoy]

Great jumping jahoobies! Another excellent video!

[@firbolg]

When I was in my early twenties, I was gobsmacked by the beauty of a woman in her sixties that I came across in a local shop. She was gorgeous, elegant, charming and yes, extremely attractive and that proved to me that beauty has no age.

[@michellecoleman5577]

Ok, I feel like the description of a pair of legs one was unfair out of context. It's a very good visual indicator if our narrator is either lying on the floor and can't see passed the legs or if they're a small child to whom all adults are just giants on top of a forest of legs. Or, you know, Cow and Chicken. 😼

[@ClaireCaoimheRaeMoonshadow]

Your reactions! I’m laughing so hard. I really needed this today.

[@touche5616]

They way he slows down while reading " teacup full of hot eels." 😂

[@ShiftyApparition]

Thank you for saying that 35 isn't old, Jamie. My 35th birthday was last month and I really appreciated hearing that.

[@EasterWitch]

Last time my ovaries "jiggled" was probably when I had a cyst on one of them and it twisted itself, causing immense pain and leading to an emergency surgery

[@DriftingLightOfTheWoods]

"Jahoobies" had me cackling oh my god

[@Lysandra_Bouquet]

The ridiculousness of all the descriptions and your reactionsreally brightened my day, so thank you 😂💜

[@dot5527]

Hi Jamie, i doubt you’ll see this but there’s no reason for me not to ask this. Please please please do a video on the Cass review in the uk and what it means for the future of transitioning in the uk. i’m trans fem and i planned to try to start doing hrt through private healthcare and this has GREATLY effected me recently. I fully trust your word and opinion and believe that there are few people better than you to speak about the topic. Even something simple like a summary of it, what’s wrong with it and what it’ll mean for TERF Island in the future. Ps if anyone reads this, please like the comment so that the comment has a higher chance of being seen. (sorry to beg for likes)

[@rosieg6989]

Hey, I just wanted to give you a warning that there are quite a few transphobic trolls in these replies, and they aren’t above harassing a trans minor, so for your own safety I’d recommend editing out your age from your comment. And don’t worry, Jamie is a trans man with a PhD from the University of Essex from researching trans people, if any KZbinr is going to do a thorough debunking of this report it’ll be him.

[@dot5527]

okay i’ll do that thanks

[@mangantasy289]

1:49 underweight 37 female with chronified ED here. SO BAD. Not only sort of idealizing skinnyness, but also complete bs. Breast are mostly fatty tissue, it's about the first parts of the body that "shrink" in extreme diets. (And my toxic grandfather used to openly and very creepily made fun my "little peas". But that's another story.... Just had get this off my chest) And damn, the theme is recurrent... (11:20....)! 😞

[@AliceBunny05]

yeah.. anyone who's been in a space with those who have restrictive ED where they speak freely will quickly figure out that MOST of the time, your chest gets rather small when you're underweight. for some people it stays a bit of a larger size, and you'll see talk of that too, but it's not nearly as common.

[@arirose6310]

@LavenderTowne drew the teacup full of eels in a video! It's called "r/menwritingwomen DRAWN LITERALLY // 3". It's a fun series lol

[@MinerBat]

16:36 this one can make sense in the right context, maybe the person is hiding below an object for example and can only see the legs of people walking by

[@unapologeticallylizzy]

THE MOST DELECTABLE SET OF JAHOOBIES

[@irrelevant_noob]

3:39

[@ashla3712]

I almost choked on my granola bar

[@PinkFrecklWavez]

Hahahahahahahahahahaha 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I must admit I wasn't overly optimistic when I saw the title of the new video, and the first 2min almost made leave, but it got better and better due to your hilarious commentary and I was in fits by the end 🙃 I listed at work and had to stop myself from bursting with hysterical laughter. Thank you Jamie 🤗

[@kg6276]

A tea cup full of hot eels... sounds incredibly painful for everyone involved. The eels AND whomever is getting their lips bitten by them. :D

[@Nautilus.119]

About the guinea pig hairstyling business...what a shame, it's closed now...my guinea pig could need a new haircut😅 (it's so not fun, our long haired one does not take a hair session easy...he is easily frustrated 😅)

[@Nautilus.119]

Also, yeah, we got three with each having a different hair length and natural style, you got a point in not all guinea pigs needing that service

[@MrNeroCat]

With the first one I had to think of "weaponized incompetence" the other: Nipple doing damage.. I have to ask my DnD Gamemaster to add that to our play :D

[@robertabarnhart6240]

If the Danger Nips were part of your armor, that could legit be a real strategy. I can imagine a pair of sharp spikes being attached to your breastplate.

[@hannahschrenk7981]

I'm choosing to imagine they're moray eels and the guy's about to get his face bit.

[@TransAroPan]

Jamie's Next Business Should be Unicorn Whisperer

[@andeeharry]

I often wonder about this entirely, an it does feel like it has been done on purpose. Many times that I have seen descriptive extracts where the lady body parts are either alive, sapient, float around, break off, can swim, have thier own thoughts, can hear, make noises, or just have strange behaviour. It makes me feel the writers never spoken with the opposite sex before. I mean like, breasts can swim in the air apparently.

[@AnnekeOosterink]

It makes a woman not a person, but a collection of titillating body parts without a pesky personality. It's reducing a woman down to a body, and then body parts, and ignoring the fact that there is a person inhabiting that body, who might object to being leered at and creeped on.

[@allanjmcpherson]

My vote is for penguin wedding planner. They're already wearing a tuxedo!

[@chaoticblades2382]

Lavendertown did a series of drawing these kind of descriptions literally and the hot eels was one of them XD

[@stephenie44]

I love your square space commercials. Nicely done.

[@giki42]

Red and yellow and pink and green Purple and orange and blue I can sing a rainbow, sing a rainbow Sing a rainbow, too.

[@stylis666]

I am grateful that purple is included. I mean, who doesn't like purple? I mean, stick your hand up if you do NOT like purple, we'll round you up and put you in the purple haters penitentiary. But it's not a colour at all, let alone one that exists in a rainbow. However!!!!!! It is possible to see purple in a double rainbow, but that's technically two rainbows, and it's still not a colour of the rainbow, but two colours of two rainbows that your brain just turns into one colour because unlike frogs we cannot see individual photons. It's pretty much the same for pink by the way. It's a shade of red. You sometimes can see it when two rainbows overlap or there's smoke or a cloud or lots of rain between you and the rainbow, but it's not technically part of the rainbow. It's red, and if it's for any reason fainter you might see it as pink. And if you think about it, the rainbow makes about as much sense as sex, gender, and attraction do. We see red and blue as distinctly different, but they're just wavelengths of the same particle. And brown is dark orange, and black is the absence of light, white is all wavelengths, and grey is actually a shade of white, and purple is a mix of opposite ends of the visible spectrum. And then there's a lot we can't even see. The more we know about it, the better it fits the diversity it symbolises. Except for how sex works, because that would fit better on a triangle than a line, but that's easily fixed with adding hue, which also adds pink by the way. I wonder if the people who came up with the colours for diversity flags thought about that, because it's kind of genius how they did it and it would be one heck of an intuitive feat to have so many different people do it so well if they didn't think about it. Suffice to say, we've come a long way from a wonky song that gets most everything wrong to getting so much right 🤣 And songs can be wonky. It's poetic freedom. For all I care they add bicycle as a colour. If it makes for a song matching its intent, it's all good.

[@segafox]

Listen with your eyes Listen with your eyes And sing everything you see You can sing a rainbow Sing a rainbow Sing along with me~ Wow, I hadn't thought about that song in so long.

[@sunnyandthechlo]

Malnourishment absolutely does NOT give you large breasts in any way. As weight fluctuates and changes, so does the chest. They’re part of the body strangely.

[@SimonClarkstone]

11:29 From the description, would that be an attack that did 2d4 piercing with melee range?

[@DiegoMorales-wn1jp]

10:57 - OMG. AI art using prompts from r/menwritingwomen We must. It's for science!

[@tangentartists6876]

Author: Lessee, Bahoobers? Hubbabboos? Joobaboobs? Hoobadoobas? Jumblybumbers? Ahah!! 💡Jahoobies!!

[@alisha-9889]

I there’s such a big problem with the way some male authors write female characters, I read a lot of horror and a lottt of popular horror written by male authors is so male gaze-y and gross

[@silvertonguer]

Its amazing that these things are even published.

[@theodorebarton4256]

Please do a video or two dissecting the Cass Report that was just released

[@crazydiamond156]

8:23 red and yellow and green and pink, purple and orange and blue, I can sing the rainbow, sing the rainbow too or something similar in the second part, I'm sure the first one is correct

[@aBeerFromHere42]

11:30 Is this the description of the Japanese version of the Cyber Harpie Lady fom YuGiOh?

[@millelindholm]

Your Square Space ads are the only ones I don’t skip!

[@nandeboleine]

Idk about the waist/thigh one…my waist and thighs are usually around the same circumference. I happen to have a small waist and big thighs, and they both gain and lose weight proportionately to my whole body.

[@Amethystar]

The only male author I could see pulling off, "She was shaped like a knife" is Brandon Sanderson, who already has a track record of some of the most bizarre and funny metaphors that, in context, actually make sense. I am, however, imagining "peaches by firelight" as either a modern folk group or an abstract watercolor painting.

[@rod0fdiscord]

can't wait to watch this video as it's 3 minutes old and i'm the 91st person to see it

[@derGlasdrache]

I find the descriptions of these great male authors very accurate and realistic. For example, I have a mouth like a teacup full of hot eels - but for your information, they are not cooked, just hot. (14:53)

[@melanyebaggins]

Whenever I read something I wrote a long time ago and cringe at some of my mistakes, watching stuff like this makes me feel so much better.

[@justdevilchan]

7:12 aw man, ive just made a guinea pig stylist site! Who am i gonna compete with now?

[@thegoosegirl42]

I'm so sorry the Guinea pigs aren't interested in haircuts. Perhaps you'll find your niche in a different market. I myself have often wished someone would make wigs for cakes. I don't like frosting but the sight of a bald cake upsets my tender sensibilities

[@Milk-ck1wv]

3:59 JAHOOBIES? I never knew that eyes clapped can they play patty cake?

[@Maerahn]

It was just the one eye though, if I recall - maybe the other eye left him hanging?

[@ethanharvey]

What is the sound of one eye clapping?

[@Lucishortforlucifer]

Hi Jamie!! Just in case you didn't know, in that one image where there's a guy saying "she was such a nice, female woman", that's Captain Holt! He's a character in Brooklyn 99, and in one of the episodes he had to go undercover and pretend to be another person- but the thing is he's gay, and he had to pretend to be straight It's a joke because he doesn't actually find anything attractive in a woman!

[@rosieg6989]

Jamie, are you going to do a video covering the unscientific Cass Report and cover the possible ramifications it'll have for trans people in England/the UK?

[@rosieg6989]

@@TheWerewolfOfNorway-mf5jz It disregarded the findings of 98% of trans research, it says that the human brain stops developing at 25 but that is factually untrue as the human brain never stops developing so waiting until 25 is not a valid conclusion, a couple of the studies it did use are ones that have been thoroughly debunked, and that other medical organizations like AusPATH and PATHA are already speaking out against it.

[@waffles3629]

Yeah, it's so unscientific it'd be laughable if it wasn't gonna cause harm.

[@LiEnby]

@@TheWerewolfOfNorway-mf5jz its completely is devoid of any science and is just someone screaming about the fact that trans people exist.. The part where it claims that boys are biologically attracted to like trucks The part where it advocstes for traumatizing trans people on purpose for conversion therapy? The part where it ignores all the evidence that trans care actually helping trans people. (Yknow like we said it does.)

[@spiritmuse]

@@TheWerewolfOfNorway-mf5jzIt's unscientific because it deliberately ignores 99% of actual science done about transgender people. Hope that helps.

[@AylaMarine]

​@@TheWerewolfOfNorway-mf5jz Explain.

[@katt.1787]

The weirdly specific measurements are peak men writing women. For some reason, you get the women's exact height, weight and bra sizes a lot. I don't get it.

[@AynneMorison]

I love hearing these - it's a good laugh

[@mikumikubeammmm]

YIPPIE NEW JAMMI VIDEO DROPPED

[@mikumikubeammmm]

@imataterI oh!..

[@unngjerde5064]

​@imataterI that's not how you gramar.

[@witchytaedragon]

@imataterI You're as useful as a screen door on a submarine

[@wendyrock4260]

I find it sad that grown men think this way.

[@gamingweeb2-842]

15:36 Maybe Cooked eel is tasty, can recommend

[@xyzzyx4839]

okay i HAVE to clarify that the book quote at 3:40 is meant to be gross. there are valid complaints to be made about stephen king (even in that very book, salem's lot) and you can say it's a bad writing choice, but that character is intended to be a weirdo. also on the word choice of 'jahoobies' (entirely cursed), the entire book is about a severely repressed town, and it's also from the 70s. edit: the very next post 💀

[@leviosadab7041]

Ok I think I recognize that "Who Helps the Helpers" one, and if I'm right then it's actually worth reading because it gets you in the first half-it's not saying that they should be the helpers but that the default ends up that way and it shouldn't be like that

[@DrinknStitch]

12:56 Cankles, when the calf & ankle become one.

[@DrinknStitch]

5:30 . Some American women will come out of the stall, into the communal, still behind closed doors, hand washing area to take care of extra fiddly bits of garb * IF there is a long line. It's a courtesy thing and UnderAlls were fiddly AF.

[@fierypotato5067]

16:30 that’s just a very fashionable Fresno Nightcrawler

[@amrys_argent]

I had the same thought!

[@CoMorbiditty]

Im reminded of the scene in the kids movie, Sinbad, where one of the more buff pirates who was topless, was told to put his nip away because it could take an eye out. And they dont let me tell students I was having top surgery because its "s3xual" ........... C'mon!!!

[@DreepyPasta]

There are people who said that vice versa was similar, but Jessica went over how women write men pretty decently and i agree.

[@BrigitteDiessl]

The woman with the shoulder breasts might have been wearing a breastplate? The thing with any of these published authors is that they have all been passed through editors too. Aaaargh!

[@riannetramoller2877]

It is actually possible to have your lower leg “hang” over your ankles. It’s called lipoedema and can happen in different places. It’s usually treated with compression garments, if I remember correctly.

[@j.rinker4609]

I'd like to know the time period when the "lady above 30" passage was written. I've been reading a biography set during the 1800's. Two people died of consumption in their 20's, but they were likely "beautiful" in a consumptive way. A lot of people lost all their teeth fairly young then...not sure if this was because of poor oral/dental care, lack of calcium in diet, scurvy, etc.?

[@UnholyTriforceDelenn]

I'm surprised a man hasn't written something directly comparing ovaries to testicles and deliberately applying testicle logic to ovaries, such as being in a sac together and jiggling inside the uterus somewhere. *shudders* I can't believe I just wrote that, even as satire.

[@tracygeddes5867]

2.44 I spurted out my coffee also, so funny.

[@_allegra]

My fave example of all time is in the first season of "My Dad Wrote a Porno", where there's a line: "...he grabbed her by the cervix" Just... baffling.

[@the_flower_dragon8469]

9:32 are you thinking of Heads, shoulders, knees and toes?

[@Pariahala]

The description of "Underthings" made me giggle because last summer I (cis male) was cosplaying a character that had a hoop skirt. As I had never worn such a thing in my life someone could have written a quite funny description of my toilet visiting woes:)

[@gloomykml6396]

On the knife one -- it refers to a slim, "straight up n' down" body. Comes from those old quizzes and articles you'd find in magazines targeted at women (and especially teen girls) about how to best dress for your natural features. Don't think the cutlery analogy ever had as much prominence as say, the fruits ones, but I've definitely heard it once or twice without ever having looked through a magazine. It was usually paired with fork (top-heavy) and spoon (bottom-heavy), so it technically was the most sensical. It's better than some descriptions you hear, I guess, especially on this subreddit.

[@Commietaku]

Hmm. I don't really get it. If we count handles, a fork and a spoon are extremely top heavy in silhouette. If we don't, a fork has a rectangular silhouette (ignoring the weird blank bits inside), and a spoon is round. A butter knife, counting its handle, would have a fairly straight and slim silhouette, so that makes sense. When I saw the video I was thinking about a chef's knife, so I thought "pregnant?"

[@gloomykml6396]

@@Commietaku That's what I'm saying! In the pictures I've seen, they have the spoon upside-down which is why it's bottom-heavy. Could be one of those weird etiquette things that the spoon goes upside-down, but more likely the entire analogy is just a stretch. I think the main takeaway is there are better, more concise ways to describe a person's body beyond the dinner table! (edit: spelling)

[@eeveearoace]

A pair of long legs stalked past on stilettos. I couldn't help but stare. Why were there just two disembodied legs walking by? Why were they wearing stilettos? How was this even possible? Then I remembered the drugs I did this morning.