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fandomsecrets2016-01-04 07:16 pm
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[ SECRET POST #3288 ]
⌈ Secret Post #3288 ⌋
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(Anonymous) 2016-01-05 07:30 am (UTC)(link)I hate them *so fucking much.* 99% of them are unforgivably sexist, not to mention the chick always has to have a baby at some point, be it midway through the novel or at the very end. I'm so fucking sick about reading about baby drama.
Plus the guy is always rich or a doctor or a race car driver or some shit and she's just some secretary. I have never, ever read a romance novel where the woman is higher status than the man. It's always about his status and money and wealth and she just seduces him by being a good mother or having a "plucky personality" or some other bullshit.
I literally only do this because it's the most stable job in the world when it comes to literary translation. Romance novels are a huge global industry and the demand for them is high. I'd like to do legitimate literature, but I don't really have the experience or the connections for that.
I have gone out of my way to find some good, trope-busting stuff to make me hate romance a little less. Cara-McKenna is good. She really doesn't cleave to gender stereotypes, which I like. But I feel like the vast majority of romance novels are just absolutely fucking offensive. I've only recently been able to start letting the rage roll off my back and just think of it as words on a page and not dwell too deeply on the content. My editor is sick of hearing my whining, anyway, haha.
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(Anonymous) 2016-01-05 07:34 am (UTC)(link)On the upside, maybe women who are into sheikhs are less likely to want to bomb the middle east/kill all dem Muslims. One can only hope.