Men writing as women and women writing as men

The totle might sound sort of confusing, but is actually very simple. What I will talk about on this post is about men writing stories about female character, and the same but otherwise with female authors. Some male authors have famously succeeded, such as Gustave Flaubert in “Madame Bovary” and “Anna Karenina”, by Leon Tostoi.
The same happens with female authors, with novels such as George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda, Mary Shelley’s Victor Frankenstein and Edith Wharton’s Ethan Frome.

I believe that this style of writing brings more complications than benefits. Eventhough you are able to experience, and to change the way of thinking of your characters, I think that to write as the opposite gender means a problem because of the way different genders think: while the men is more superficial, the women is more interested in emotions and feelings. This is why I believe that most authors prefer to write as what they are.