I just had my core session with my PT and somewhere mid 1200 sit ups (OW FFS) I remembered a scene from a book I once read. Thriller. Woman has won lottery, male ?journo? goes to her isolated house to interview? her, something like that. /1
She has an amazingly flat stomach because she does 1000 sit ups a day. 30s. Possibly has a shotgun (this is deepest Florida).

Once the man is established as not a threat, she asks him to hold her ankles while she does her sit ups.

Can you guess if a cis man wrote this.
So obviously, a) "Please hold my legs down while you crouch two feet from my crotch, complete stranger miles from help" is in fact not a thing that women tend to say except in some fairly specific and well defined situations.
But b)...

If you do 1000 sit ups a day, you don& #39;t bloody *need* anyone holding your ankles. That would be the *point*. I do core once a week and I can knock out 1200 without my PT unsocially distancing himself around my feet.
I must have read this book over a decade ago, and the absolute wrongness of this scene is still with me. And this, folks, is why you can& #39;t just & #39;imaginatively put yourself in your characters& #39; heads& #39; when you lack their experience and assume you& #39;ll get it right.
This thread brought to you by needing to think about *something* around the 800 mark. But also by the fact that other people& #39;s experiences is often an unknown unknown, and the more we strive to be actively conscious of that, the better writers (and people) we& #39;ll be.
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