[ SECRET POST #4059 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4059 ⌋

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Comments

Re: I always thought that was part of the appeal.

[(Anonymous)]

The problem is that you also have to believe and like the character in question as a reader. And when it feels like it's just paint-by-numbers, that's hard to do.

Re: I always thought that was part of the appeal.

[(Anonymous)]

I think romance fans usually project themselves onto the heroine. So the more generic, the better.

Re: I always thought that was part of the appeal.

[(Anonymous)]

But I think there's a point - at least for some people - where it becomes impossible to even do that.

Re: I always thought that was part of the appeal.

[(Anonymous)]

Not really, not among fans of the genre.

Re: I always thought that was part of the appeal.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think that's entirely accurate. The idea isn't to have a generic heroine, per se, it's to have heroines that are a specific type that readers find easy to identify with or project themselves onto. So "pretty but with modern attitudes re: gender equality and feminism that's a turn off to most men except the super hot hero who isn't a sexist pig" is a common one. So is "pretty but highly educated and bookish which is totally a bad thing in historical times".