User blog comment:HumboldtLycanthrope/Writer's Lounge Part 5: An Interview with Mikemacdee/@comment-5632489-20150326175127

"But writing from one perspective isn't inherently more powerful than another. There are a lot of authors who claim "I don't know how to write (author's opposite sex)," or assume that they do and fail without realizing it. I have little respect for those kinds of authors. Know what the secret to writing the opposite sex is, ladies and gents? Don't write the opposite sex. Don't write men, don't write women. Write PEOPLE. Sex is a single pair of chromosomes, not an entire personality. That's how I go about it: I treat the character's sex as just another trait, like their hair and clothes and whatever's on their ipod."

To this I was nodding so hard I felt like my head was going to fall off - I don't think I've ever read something on this site I've agreed with more. I haven't read Mike's stories yet, but after reading an interview for someone as smart and wise as him I'll be sure to soon.