Storyline for Mr. King: a world where women are taller than men.

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Frank Montalvo

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I suggest you write a book/script where women in US are on average taller and stronger than men to the same extent that men are compared to women today. Not Amazons, just average difference in reverse. I think it would be challenging to consider how relationships would change at home and at work, how psychology, customs, etc. of each gender would change. How would men feel dominated by women, men attracting and appealing to them. Who would be the heroes, criminals the victims? It would be a comedy but also a tragedy.
I've thought of this storyline for many years after volunteering and contributing to domestic violence protection causes for women. Recently my wife said,"Stop, already. Tell King, not me." We are both 85 and wife often joked–it wouldn't happen to her if she were a man...or he a women.
 

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I suggest you write a book/script where women in US are on average taller and stronger than men to the same extent that men are compared to women today. Not Amazons, just average difference in reverse. I think it would be challenging to consider how relationships would change at home and at work, how psychology, customs, etc. of each gender would change. How would men feel dominated by women, men attracting and appealing to them. Who would be the heroes, criminals the victims? It would be a comedy but also a tragedy.
I've thought of this storyline for many years after volunteering and contributing to domestic violence protection causes for women. Recently my wife said,"Stop, already. Tell King, not me." We are both 85 and wife often joked–it wouldn't happen to her if she were a man...or he a women.
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Frank Montalvo

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I understand his not accepting storylines. He probably has many of his own he'll never get to. I retired from the academic, non-fiction writing business many years ago, but always admired and respected the fiction writers' imagination and skill, like King's, to start a public dialogue on issues while entertaining them in the process with a good story. The idea is up for grabs for an aspiring novelist. Anyone? (It's personal. I have three strong-willed, accomplished adult daughters in education, business, and medicine who have been underestimated most of their lives by knuckleheads. I would love to see their faces if the read such a story.)
 

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...in a way, he's already done it with "ordinary" women characters, that have done extraordinary things....and are "larger than life"....
 
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