[ SECRET POST #2967 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2967 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

DA

A large part of the problem, at least in the circles I travel in, is that 50 Shades isn't marketed as romance*. If it was shelved in with the rest of the dubious-to-ludicrously written erotica, it would catch a lot less flack. (It also probably wouldn't have ever become as popular as it has, because a lot of the women who are absolutely in love with the series are the same women who would never "lower themselves**" to reading erotica.)

However, it's shelved as non-genre fiction, not as romance, which lends it an air of legitimacy in the eyes of both the media and of a lot of readers that it really doesn't deserve. That's where a lot of the "oh, but it's just a love story" nonsense comes from - people take non-genre fiction seriously, where romance fiction is admittedly just fantasy wish-fulfillment that scratches an itch.

* I know the movie is marketed as romance to cash in on the Valentine market, but the books aren't.
** An actual quote from an acquaintance of mine.

[(Anonymous)]

Not just that, but E.L. James swears up and down that it's not erotica.

[diet_poison]

.......what?

seriously?

o__O

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, if her publisher's decided to market it as something other than erotica, she'd be expected to go along with that regardless of whether or not she privately acknowledges she's written porn.

[diet_poison]

Then allow me to redirect my o__O from the author to the publisher. Because really...

(though if she actually does "swear up and down" it sounds to me like she does have an issue with acknowledging what she wrote, regardless of what the publishers have said)