Writing as the opposite sex

Writing is something inherent to humans; every person can write and should write. But one question comes to our mind; can a man write as a woman? (Or the other way round). The answer is very simple no.

Women will never "write as a man" because all men are different. The fact of asking, what a man would think? Is already wrong.

On the other hand one person can and should write a character of the opposite sex, but as an individual and not as the male/female stereotype.

The use of male author writing about female characters is very often. In fact there are many authors that use this technique as a tool for their books. An example would be: David Grossman at “Her Body Knows", Josefina Vicens at "The Empty Book" or Amos Oz's at "My Michael", etc…