These Women Deserve Better
You read a book. For the first twenty minutes, everything is going splendidly. Then it happens. A random woman character unfathomable horrors happen to her... But the male characters have either no horror or a reasonable amount of horror happen to them. Or maybe it's a woman that should have more to do in the plot. It feels out of nowhere and you feel inclined to gloss over it. Don't. Think about it. Is there a pattern? Whatever the case, this list is my way of keeping score.
created by Techystatic
last updated July, 2026
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Yes, this list was made because the movie adaptation of In the Tall Grass pissed me off, HOW did you knowwwww? But seriously, I really wanted to read the book and then I realized Stephen King wrote it halfway through the movie. I also don't want to say every author on this list is a misogynist because I don't know yet. All I know is that Neil Gaiman, at least, DID do some heinous things to women and I feel like his books DO have tropes that may have had red flags within them. This list is just me trying to pay attention. Also I will put the instances that put these books on this list in the forum section under a spoiler so I don't spoil it here.
