Date: 17 October 2007 10:13 am (UTC)
If a man is saying, "things I like are masculine. Things I don't like are feminine--also inauthentic, annoying, and badly written--" how is anyone supposed to take them seriously? This is the very definition of sexism. The good stuff is boy stuff, the bad stuff is girl stuff.

I think there is a huge difference between complaining that a book is overly sentimental, corny, or inauthentic, and complaining that it's designed to appeal to women, ewwww feh, who have no taste. Creating a parallel genre, "bad books designed to appeal to men"--this fails to appease me.

The whole genre of the novel--and even genre novels--were created by women, for women, in nearly every language that novels exist. Go read some Latin religious texts, you manly men.
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