.@jennygadget She's criticising romance tropes AS PRESENT IN OTHER GENRES and identifying a pattern. Why is this a problem?
@eilatan @jennygadget She explicitly states she's talking about these tropes being common in other mediums, though?
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@fozmeadows@jennygadget Her argument is informed by her disdain for the romance genre.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fozmeadows@eilatan@jennygadget But, crucially, doesn't frame those tropes as *preventing her from consuming* other genres/media.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fozmeadows@eilatan@jennygadget I super agree that the D-canoe thing needs criticism, but it's totally framed as The Province of Romance. -
@tithenai@fozmeadows@jennygadget Many excellent romances interrogate it. Loretta Chase's Lord of Scoundrels. Pubbed 20+ years ago.
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@fozmeadows@eilatan@jennygadget & then the examples she uses aren't *from* Romance, which she doesn't read, because she hates trope...? -
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@jennygadget@fozmeadows@eilatan Did we read the same post? Because I didn’t see that at all. Her point is: don’t glorify assholes. - Show replies
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@fozmeadows@eilatan@jennygadget & to be clear this is totally me critting the article, which I think is really muddled.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@fozmeadows@eilatan@jennygadget but only uses romance novels as the examples. And presents the trope as if never challenged or subverted. -
@Kaetrin67@eilatan@jennygadget scroll up, and you'll see people arguing that she HASN'T used romance novels. - Show replies
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