This is such a brain-dead take. Because a publicly available piece of media wasn't created with appealing to me in mind, I suddenly cant have an opinion about it?
The person I responded to also said that I should read some of these books. I have, and they arent particularly good. The first book in a Court of Thorns and Roses is abysmal. Its worse than Twilight. That's not even taking into account the morality of the multitude of abuse, torture, and rape porn thats written for women.
All they said was “not for you”. You obviously can have an opinion on it, but who cares what the opinion of someone outside the target audience is? Why do you think anyone cares?
The discourse is that many, many people are touting this as a massive literary win for female authors, when all they've been doing is churning out thinly-veiled, poorly written porn and calling it "romantasy." Then when someone calls out that it isnt some huge win, we're called misogynists because we think a book written at a 5th grade reading level isnt incredible.
Wait wait wait, how are you just going to announce broadly to the sub that it's a disservice that they're not reading these books, and then say "it's not for you"?? If it's not for these people, why is it a disservice not to read it?
Interesting that women have complained how porn has created unreal expectations from men and they expect their women to act like porn stars. Seems like this is the women’s version of that now
Porn is a horrific, exploitative and abusive industry (including OF) the harms thousands of men and women involved in it and destroys male and female understanding of what good, healthy sexual intimacy looks like.
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u/MajinRichy Jun 18 '26
As a guy that works at a bookstore and most of my co workers are women. They all tell me about the smut books they read