[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

"That's the whole POINT of a typical romance novel though, that the plucky heroine stands up to the dramatically damaged but still cool guy and he changes himself and his bad attitude with his love for her as a motivation and so on."

You're right, a huge percentage of romance novels fit into this pattern. This is exactly why I gave up on buying romance novels years ago (now I get all my romance reading from fanfics, and get scorn poured on me from all the genficcers for being such a shipper... yay). Because I hate that pattern to little bits - or at least I used to; it's become so boring, I can't really work up the energy to hate it properly any more.

I can spare some hate for 50 Shades though! (which btw I have not read and do not intend to. I heard waaaay more details than I ever needed to know about it, from my mother of all people D: just to double the horror) - because it's shoved this whole stereotype right into the limelight and glorified it and we now have to sit through so many mainstream media discussions of whether "this is what all women secretly want" blah blah... ugh. Given all the copycatting that goes on in writing/publishing, now there's probably even less chance of anyone wanting to break out into something 'new' in the genre of romance, and write something that breaks this mold.