[ SECRET POST #4537 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4537 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Same. I totally get not liking romance stories where the romance itself is the main focus of the narrative, or non-romances where the romance ends up taking over the plot or the character's personality/motivations. But if the romance is just one part of the larger whole and the overall story is about a woman having adventures/saving the world/what have you who also happens to fall in love... what's so bad about that?

[type_wild]

The thing that's bad about it is the very, very widespread assumption that a woman's happy ending is marriage. Yes, you'll find this narrative with men too, for sure, but at a far less insidious level than it is with women, and certainly without all the historical and societal baggage. This is why I think "romance is just a larger part of the whole" is worse than pure romance stories - because in pure romance stories, I'm going into it with the understanding and the wish for the romance to happen. Token romances in non-romance stories are the constant nagging reminders that girls can't have happy endings without a a kiss.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm with you OP.
I'm a single heterosexual woman and get constant pressure from society to be in a relationship with a man. I also hear a lot of my single female friends freaking out because they are also not in a relationship with a man. Part of it, I believe is the fact that the media constantly portrays the idea that a woman's goal is to be with a man. (This of course leaves no space for anyone who isn't hetero also). I also want to see women just having adventures as men do, in movies!
Honestly, it's exhausting!!!

[(Anonymous)]

Correction. Marriage to a man. Lesbian and bi women are encouraged /not/ to marry... unless it's to a man.