.@courtneymilan I'm comparing this to people saying outsiders don't get to talk about their stuff.
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Replying to @fozmeadows
@fozmeadows We're not saying she can't. We're saying her critique lacks the information to be anything other than generalized and naive.1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes -
Replying to @courtneymilan
@courtneymilan And yet nobody that I've seen has said her analysis of her given examples is inaccurate. It's all framing and right to speak.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
@fozmeadows I have not seen anyone say she's not allowed to speak. Just that we think her words don't make sense.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @courtneymilan
@courtneymilan The implication seems to be that, as she admits being an outsider to the romance genre, she shouldn't have written the piece.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
@fozmeadows No. It's that she should literally have read one romance before critiquing the genre.2 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @courtneymilan
@courtneymilan This is what's getting me: romance & its tropes are so omnipresent, you CAN'T restrict their discussion to genre-insiders.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
@fozmeadows WE'RE NOT DOING THAT. Nobody is doing that. Just, FFS, if you want to criticize the trope do it in your own lane.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @courtneymilan
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@courtneymilan And yet people are complaining she ignored the existing romance community discussions. How is that not a contradiction?4 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @fozmeadows
@fozmeadows If you’re going to criticize tropes, criticize tropes. But if you start by saying you’re going to criticize romance novels…3 replies 2 retweets 2 likes
@courtneymilan She then explicitly said that this particular trope was everywhere and UNFARILY attributed to romance alone.
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