annathepiper | (Reply)

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Seriously. But yeah, we still live in a culture where proper wimmens aren't supposed to have positive feelings in their wimmenparts, so clearly any writing that promotes such positive feelings is "porn".

And yeah--I've said it before, but the usual heteronormativity and gender roles are most often what keeps me from reading contemporary romance. I can't put up with it there. (Oddly, I can deal with it more in historical settings, go fig...)

And OH MY YES re: screwing up the Hugos. The romance genre is not without its drama in that respect--witness the brouhaha around this year's RITAs and how a novel featuring a relationship between a Nazi concentration camp commander and a Jewish prisoner got itself nominated. But SF/F is taking the drama crown this year.