And applicable to more than just people of the opposite gender. I mean, if I were trying to write a character who was a shopoholic, or a raver, or any number of things that I wasn't...

Also, asking somebody's opinion about others can tell you about biases that they don't know about and wouldn't explain if you asked them directly. Biases that they don't know about but you can spot because you have different biases...

That's my first post here btw. Broken any unwritten rules yet?

Welcome welcome, and making suggestions in a polite tone breaks no rules in any website I'd care to be a part of :-)
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Who needs to be big and burly when you can just apply physics?
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