• Greercase@lemmus.org
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    21 days ago

    I agree that it’s mostly men doing it. I was more just looking to shoehorn in that book recommendation lol. I will say some female romantasy authors can kind of go the other way. It’s mostly a bad writer issue in both cases, and at least the female authors didn’t do it in a way that objectifies women for both a primarily male audience and the men in the story.

    This kind of gets at the issues I see most bad female authors run into: https://youtu.be/ejklu1OvWFs

    They’re different pitfalls, but I’m also a getting a little sick of them too.

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      20 days ago

      Really, I think the authors just get horny when writing fiction sometimes. Which is fine like, once, but if there’s like, three horny passages, I’m like “ok, please give it a rest.”

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        20 days ago

        It’s mostly a problem because some writers are just… bad. I’m reading romantasy, I expect some romance, I take issue when it’s written like not another teen movie and still takes itself seriously.