Important thoughts
It took me some time to deconstruct the preconceptions in my mind in order to write Jessica's Land, my latest one shot story, also Falling Slowly in some scenes...
Sadly, I must admit that I have been severely influenced by these ideas that Yuri can't be feminine or emotional... she is always the "dom", the "top", some even picture her as "the man of the relationship" or the one wearing the "pants" in the relationship and these ideas seem very ist to me, don't you think?
She is a woman, she can be pregnant in a story... or be emotional because of a breakup. I caught myself thinking about how hard it was to write her as a pregnant woman, and also all the scenes about her crying her eyes out because Jessica left in Falling Slowly. I felt a little ashamed of myself for having such prejudiced ideas and decided to share these thoughts with you.
As someone who is writing something for you to read I should never have this kind of thoughts and definitely should try my best to deconstruct these ists ideas too. Anyway, I hope that in the future I will be able to portrait them as the women that they are, with real feelings and also portrait different sides of them.
Érika
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