"Sharia law! Yes yes yes! Sharia law! Yes yes yes!"
"We the majority want Sharia law because we are for womens rights"
Some of these w0m3n fell harassed and victimized by a smile and a ‘good morning’ from a male supervisor.
The irony is that most feminists view romance novels as the epitome of backward thinking — suppression of women dressed up as romance.
Are romance novels with effeminate men really popular?
"Sharia law! Yes yes yes! Sharia law! Yes yes yes!"
"We the majority want Sharia law because we are for womens rights"
>>As a feminist and a romance novelist, if I wrote about a male protagonist who made unwanted sexual advances towards his female employee or ignored pleas to slow down or stop trying to have sex with a date, I would be pilloried by my readers
So why did women push 50 Shades of Grey to the top seller list?
Why do they call the novels “bodice rippers?”
Urban Dictionary: bodice ripper
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bodice%20ripper
An historical romance where the heroine has lots of non-consensual sex, which becomes consensual. The book needs to have a gaudy cover with a woman with an extraordinarily long neck, heaving bosoms, and flowing hair, and a brooding man.
When I encounter harassing women, I steer clear of them, just the same as I avoid the harassing men I come to know.
Romance: Behavior that men fake in pursuit of getting laid.
I don’t have the time or the inclination to post 100 typical rape fantasies from “romance” novels, but y’all go right ahead.
The key is the neologism “unwanted advances”. This is a subjective thing which no one - no one - can define in advance.
You don’t know if the door is open unless you turn the handle. And, as anyone who wasn’t born yesterday knows perfectly well, turning the handle produces many unexpected and surprising results.
Simply one more example of what happens when the father is missing from the nuclear family.
Just make sure you never compliment a woman on her sweater. That is a direct visit to HR.
“How to avoid harassing women”
Don’t make a sexual advance (gesture, comment) to a woman that you wouldn’t make to a man.
Man, the romance novels that were written in the 1970s and 80s usually featured a hero that kidnapped the heroine, tossed her over a horse, took her to his lair, tied her up, and ravished her out of her mind until she was hopelessly hooked on him. It worked because he was fabulously handsome, wealthy, sexy, intelligent, and totally Alpha. And if anyone got in his way, he killed them. I guess that was a different generation of novels. LOL!
What about the double standards. Just forced to watch an Ellen show preview commercial. Guy asked for her to “sign” for a bog box delivery on stage. She says, Only if you take your shirt off, which he complies.
I’m trying to envision the opposite, a conservative comedian talk show host having an attractive girl do the same and him asking her to take her shirt off. Would the laughter be the same?
The audience for “romance novels” appears to be women who are begging and yearning for someone to harass them.
The most common types of Romance novel heros are; Navy SEAL/Special Ops/Spy, Billionaire, Vampire/Werewolf and Pirate. Not exactly the types you meet around the water cooler.
This lady spends zero time writing about how Sally was swept off her feet by John, the Odor Eaters Junior Midwest brand manager.
Romance novel: Girl sees boy. Boy ignores girl. Girl hates boy. Boy is nice anyway. They screw and have a lavish girlie dream wedding.
Aren’t they called “bodice rippers?”
Most women spend a lot of money on those clothes. Ripping them to expose the heaving bosom and assuage your rampant steed is probably not good policy when that top cost her $200. I guess it’s good that today’s ubiquitous workout clothes are pretty hard to rip.
Brought to you by someone who’s world is run from the omniscient point of view.
And that is woman, no?
You think of a man, and you take away reason and accountability. (As Good As It Gets)
She should start dating women, and then report back when she’s figured out how they tick.
“Think” and “romance novel” don’t ever belong in the same sentence.
The romance novels of not that many years ago often had an early scene where “he takes her” (it was on the damned back covers of the books) and was “Great Expectations” in reverse, with years going by and the woman at the center of every one of those canned little stories eventually running into him again, and he’s changed, and he’s suffered a lot, and let’s just rekindle blah blah blah.
Embrace Your Masculine Toxicity
Don’t touch any women, leave lost kids alone.
Maleness is Mafia; you’re Don Corleone.
But it’s mostly you older guys doomed, as a rule;
The snow-flaky beta males are neutered in school.