Elephants can move quickly, but quadruped gaits like gallop, canter, trot etc refer to the mechanics and the way that the feet fall - they aren’t about speed. Elephants can’t canter or gallop the way hoofed animals can. Interesting article about the mechanics of how elephants ‘run’

She’s so far from meh, in my opinion. Kids who write fanfic on the internet have better writing skills.

Do you dislike all books you read written by male authors or with male main characters?

I have the same preference you do, based on what I’ve read the past year. But I don’t feel like I can’t enjoy or get immersed in books by male authors, and find main characters that aren’t women engaging.

Internalized misogyny, most likely.

Although it’s possible that the books you’ve tried written by/for/about women mostly aren’t your style. I dislike entire genres that often have girls and women as protagonists, like romance and most of the newer fluffy/fanfic style YA books.

Or you could just have encountered a lot of very poorly written women characters. That’s definitely a huge issue in literature. Though I find it’s most often male writers who struggle to write female character that are at all believable or fully developed.

I’m a woman (though I have autism and feel more non-binary/gender neutral than I do feminine) and I don’t find a lot of female characters ‘relatable’ per se - but that doesn’t stop me from enjoying plenty of fiction written by women, and books with female characters.

Some of my favorite fiction writers who are women: Ursula K LeGuin - Madeleine L’Engle - Margaret Atwood - Toni Morrison - Zadie Smith - Agatha Christie - Octavia Butler - Willa Cather - L.M. Montgomery - Dodie Smith

Thank you!

Link?

I don’t have and don’t want a career, so no. However it does increase my quality of life, and keeps me constantly learning and considering new viewpoints