>>9308
>Female-generated content does tend to have more of a narrative. This is why many women will call male-generated content "boring." The sight of a character with their guts out is a good start, but it isn't enough. We want to know how that happened, like what's the story here? Who did it, why, how did this character end up here?

It's impossible to really know the difference between men and women since no one person can ever see the world from both perspectives, but any one person can know what he or she likes, and this is the good stuff. This is why text is usually better than pictures and why I focus entirely on writing. It's the best way to construct an effective narrative, both fastest and with the least effort.

The most frustrating thing with guro manga is when the dialog is in Japanese and therefore incomprehensible. The pictures themselves are only a tease that something amazing is going on, while the real fun would be in knowing what the people are saying and thereby understanding why this is happening and what the people are thinking. Sometimes the desire to find these answers will even drive me to waste large amounts of time painstakingly trying to draw Japanese characters into Google translate, only to end up with poorly translated hints of what the characters are saying.

>Abrupt endings are usually considered unfinished in female-generated content. We abandon works in the middle, sure, but it's not deliberate.

It's doubtful that anyone does that deliberately, but very often a person's inspiration will dry up. Someone comes into a project with an idea, but realizing that idea is the easy part. The challenge is wrapping it in a convincing narrative, and that is very, very hard. Any guro fan would love to know what happens next in their favorite guro situations, but eventually our imaginations fail us and we just can't think of anything good, so we must fade to black. I personally have multiple guro stories that I really enjoyed writing and never posted because I couldn't think of a good ending.

Perhaps the real difference is that men are more often interested in publishing their unfinished works, while female-dominated communities are more likely to reject such work as being too low-quality. It is probably still worth publishing works that end abruptly, even if it only serves to inspire other people to imagine their own endings.

>So many women I know are like, "what is with men and the giant tits."

It is tempting to imagine that if there are any real hardwired fundamental difference between men and women, one of them would be male attraction to breasts. We might imagine there is some part of the brain that develops differently in men to naturally draw them to women and continue the species, and it works by locking onto the simplest and most obvious way to distinguish women from men, and this crude mechanism is so simplistic that it causes the attraction to increase as the breasts get bigger.

On the other hand, Mythbusters once did an experiment where they tested the effect of breast size on the tips given by customers at a restaurant, and the tips actually increased as the breast size of the server increased. Perhaps even more surprising, this effect was seen in both male and female customers. Surely no customer would consciously give more money for the same service, so perhaps Mythbusters were revealing some unconscious preferences that exist in both men and women even if we're not aware that we have them.

Let's not be quick to trust people when they say they're not interested in giant tits. People lie, especially when talking about potentially embarrassing topics, and it seems that sometimes people are even attracted to things without being aware of the attraction.

>People talk about women's preference for knowing how the characters involved feel in a disparaging way, like oh women, only caring about ~feelings~. To us, the fact that men wouldn't care at all looks stunted. What is the point of drawing a character being flayed alive, if their face conveys no sense of pain or fear? Isn't the point of that to either imagine being in pain, or causing pain?

Is that really a male/female thing? I'd always imagine that it was merely particular to each person. Some people seem to prefer their guro without emotional content, and it's easy to understand how pain and fear could be detrimental to sexiness. On the other hand, some people seem to take a darker approach, wanting to imagine the full picture, suffering included. I've always been among the latter and never considered that it might actually be a clue to the sex of the person. It's hard to believe that everyone who is into the darker stuff might be female, but now it's going to be hard to shake that thought.

>Pinterest and Instagram would be hotbeds of graphic female-generated guro, if the TOS allowed it.

It is terrifying how society likes to dictate to people what they should and should not be interested in. This is exactly the sort of thinking that leads to totalitarian dictatorships. If we like to have tightly restrictive TOS rules, then why not extend the same principle to every aspect of life and give the government total control of the people to ensure that no one can do anything that we find upsetting? Sadly it seems to be human nature that we will abuse and oppress each other, creating more misery for ourselves than any natural disaster ever can.

All anyone can do is try to lead by example and be welcoming of alternative tastes, especially when they don't match our own. We can't make humanity change its nature, but we can try to embody the change we want in ourselves and hope that others will do the same.

>A reason I hesitate to post my own art and fiction is that I think people may want or expect content more catered to male tastes. Not even the genders of the characters or whatever, I love drawing female victims, that's fine, just those little stylistic cultural cues. Just like a lot of the content here misses the mark for me, my content would miss the mark for a lot of people here.

Most of the content here misses the mark for everybody. We all skip over plenty of stuff that doesn't interest us. Your content would not be special in that way, and it would undoubtedly be very welcome by those who want it. Gurochan doesn't exist to cater to some particular taste, but rather it exists because society refuses to accept unusual tastes and brutally restrictive TOS rules force people out of mainstream services, leaving us nowhere to go but a place that's willing to accept us, and gurochan fills that niche by accepting all the people that other people reject.