Bill and I went to the library to get some books on CD for our road trip to Cali. The library had almost no romance novels on CD. There was lots of macho crap, self help, and murder mysteries but no romance.
Why is murder and crime more uplifting that romance? I get so sick of having one of my choices in literature denigrated. Most of the non-romance books on the best seller lists have some kind of sex scene, so it's not that. Is it because they have happy endings? No, lots of books have happy endings. Are they too predictable? No, in our day and age almost everything is predictable.
I know why people discriminate against romance novels, they are a declaration by the woman reading them that she is intelligent and likes or looks forward to sex. This makes people uncomfortable because everyone knows that women hate sex, it's only for men to enjoy and women are modest, less intelligent creatures who spend their time reading home decor magazines and sweet little murder mysteries with recipes. Only an immoral, wicked woman would read a romance novel (and that includes the Christian ones).
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