04-22-2017, 06:01 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-22-2017, 06:06 PM by MarylikesGrimm.)
(04-22-2017, 05:42 PM)izzy Wrote: This is an example. It doesn't matter if everyone if patting Nick and Hank on the back, that would happen in real life and so would the whisper campaign about Nick 5 minutes later.
Like it or not, and it is in large part playing out in real life right now, the police force is still a culture of machismo. While a lot of last two generations of young men may have been greatly feminized by society, it really is only starting in the police forces throughout the county now.
Why would adding women to a department reduce the whisper campaign? In areas where women are common it is much bigger issue than with men. Women often "pretend" to whisper when they are saying negative things about someone. Traditionally, men blamed women for gossip so I am glad you admit men do it to.
Women characters do not have to be having sex with the lead to be important to the story.