"Sharia law! Yes yes yes! Sharia law! Yes yes yes!"
"We the majority want Sharia law because we are for womens rights"
Posted on 02/02/2018 5:19:34 AM PST by C19fan
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 — and rightly so.
Because that’s not the behavior of a romance hero, that’s the behavior of a villain.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Some of these w0m3n fell harassed and victimized by a smile and a ‘good morning’ from a male supervisor.
or feel.
not fell.
we regret the error.
The irony is that most feminists view romance novels as the epitome of backward thinking — suppression of women dressed up as romance.
.... yet they still read those “50 Shades” books. I guess it’s different if you’re rich.
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.
Sex: Behavior that women fake in pursuit of getting something from men.
LOVE Regency romances. But this is a modern era and I can’t imagine how you navigate the dating world today. Yes, we always had handsy characters you had to slap down. But we weren’t such flakes that the experience traumatized us for life. Mostly the experiences were funny. I have noticed that many of my liberal girlfriends are in dire need of a sense of humor.
>>To me this is the ultimate proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
Liberalism IS a mental disorder and they WANT chaos in the West.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-psychiatry
The psychiatrists R D Laing (from Scotland), Theodore Lidz (from America), Silvano Arieti (from Italy) and others, argued that “schizophrenia” and psychosis were understandable, and resulted from injuries to the inner self-inflicted by psychologically invasive “schizophrenogenic” parents or others. It was sometimes seen as a transformative state involving an attempt to cope with a sick society. Laing, however, partially dissociated himself from his colleague Cooper’s term “anti-psychiatry”. Laing had already become a media icon through bestselling books (such as The Divided Self and The Politics of Experience) discussing mental distress in an interpersonal existential context; Laing was somewhat less focused than his colleague Cooper on wider social structures and radical left wing politics, and went on to develop more romanticized or mystical views (as well as equivocating over the use of diagnosis, drugs and commitment). Although the movement originally described as anti-psychiatry became associated with the general counter-culture movement of the 1960s, Lidz and Arieti never became involved in the latter. Franco Basaglia promoted anti-psychiatry in Italy and secured reforms to mental health law there.
Laing, through the Philadelphia Association founded with Cooper in 1965, set up over 20 therapeutic communities including Kingsley Hall, where staff and residents theoretically assumed equal status and any medication used was voluntary. Non-psychiatric Soteria houses, starting in the United States, were also developed[32] as were various ex-patient-led services.
Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz argued that “mental illness” is an inherently incoherent combination of a medical and a psychological concept. He opposed the use of psychiatry to forcibly detain, treat, or excuse what he saw as mere deviance from societal norms or moral conduct.
Schizophrenia is a “transformative state” and a “response” to a “sick society”. Celebrate the “trans”.
Do as thou will shall be the whole of the law according to Satanists.
NOW founder Kate Millet was mental ill and diagnosed as such.
Keep digging and you’ll find them advocating for chaos and disorder.
It’s all about tearing down the established order of Western civilization. Barbarians at the gate tearing it down from within and it’s been “tolerated” and now celebrated for over 60 years.
I have a friend who wrote very nasty stories. Gentlest, sweetest creature alive. But she was in the middle of a divorce and all her anger went into her writing. Divorce over, nasty writing over.
“Women use sex to get love, men use love to get sex.”
The romance novels I read have extremely manly heroes. Effeminate might be the villains, but never the heroes.
There are romance novels for every niche market now. And I mean EVERY. Which makes the above really dumb advice.
There’s a massive difference between 50 shades (which I only read about and never read), and bodice rippers (which I actually also don’t enjoy, but have read). The first seems to get off on degradation. The second on passionate encounters. Bodice rippers were fascinating when I was of babysitting age. Then you grow up and don’t need them. But I have no memory of their plots humiliating the characters.
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.
The Venn diagram of that one is very interesting.
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