Hehe, I'm really easy to scare off with romance novels because heteronormative clichee's ick the hell out of me. Everything that ends with a wedding or where the woman "wants it after all" really puts me off. The only romance novels I can read are either fanfic or gay romances, because all the manly men and womanly women of the normal het romances make me barf.
By which I do not want to judge anyone who likes them because I have a gazillion guilty pleasure ready and totally get the appeal of not only reading high quality works. My sister always wanted me to read thomas bernhard in the middle of my hardcore a book a day dragonlance phase. I have times where I will read anything that has an elf or a spaceship in it, no matter how bad.
and i wont even start with how much I swallow from comic books.
It's weird that it's the sexism that puts me off romance novels but that I can read Fables or even some Manara porn thingy without being much bothered by it. I guess it is because it's easier to discount it as completely off the rooker male fantasy than seeing the internalized sexism in chick lit, where the woman is at the center but is still all about men.
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Date: 2011-11-27 12:03 am (UTC)By which I do not want to judge anyone who likes them because I have a gazillion guilty pleasure ready and totally get the appeal of not only reading high quality works. My sister always wanted me to read thomas bernhard in the middle of my hardcore a book a day dragonlance phase. I have times where I will read anything that has an elf or a spaceship in it, no matter how bad.
and i wont even start with how much I swallow from comic books.
It's weird that it's the sexism that puts me off romance novels but that I can read Fables or even some Manara porn thingy without being much bothered by it. I guess it is because it's easier to discount it as completely off the rooker male fantasy than seeing the internalized sexism in chick lit, where the woman is at the center but is still all about men.