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⌈ Secret Post #5224 ⌋

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Comments

[feotakahari]

My first thought is ethnic variety. Anyone ever romance a samurai?

[(Anonymous)]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16136860-the-samurai-s-garden

[(Anonymous)]

There's a whole genre of "romancing Native Americans" and "romancing Scots" and "romancing Samurai" and "romancing hot Caribbean guy" etc. etc.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes but some romance novels with POC leading men were/are written by middle-class white women who are all about the fetishizing stereotypes, although things are changing in some corners thanks to POC and less willfully ignorant/racist romance writers.

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NAYRT

Ugh yes


Those tropes always made me uncomfortable (esp. as a PoC, and a woman who generally enjoys the multitudes of beautiful men across time and space). I just wish there wasn't this exoticism/creepy lense applied to men (and women, but that's a whole othwr story) in romance novels. Can't they just exist, live their lives and enjoy their culture and be fine as hell? :(

I'll take any recs you may have nonnie.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT--I'm not big on romance novels, tbh, but Courtney Milan and Stacey Abrams (yes, the politician--as Selena Montgomery) might be good authors to start with. And poking around on goodreads might help.

[(Anonymous)]

I was just going comment this. POC heroes or heroes from a non western culture sounds like a good idea, but in the romance genre they tend to be written by white women, fetishizing that culture in awkward ways.

[(Anonymous)]

You do realize stuff like Samurai Warriors and Sengoku Basara with hot buff samurai wasn't written by a woman and probably had few women involved in the production, right? Honestly I'm thinking what the hell was OP thinking and idk.