Why are so many men written by women comical caricatures of masculinity?

Men get criticized for writing women poorly (and breastily) but women authors do the same thing when writing about men, in about equal amounts. In fact since these days there are more books written by women than men, I’d posit that men are more poorly-portrayed than women in absolute numbers terms.

Most people don’t make even the first effort to understand or empathize with someone not exactly like them. Contra feminists who prattle on about how men are uniquely terrible writers of women, this deficiency is a human thing, not a man or woman thing.