What gets me is that I don't mind romance. I don't even mind a good romance triangle. And I don't mind romantic elements in my fantasy or whatever I am reading.
I just get tired of seeing female leads being this major object of affection for a large number of guys. I don't care if they are pretty or not. It just rubs me the wrong way. Can't there be something else? I don't see this as much with the male characters.
Because instead of seeing strong, female character . or normal female characters, I see women fetished as overly sexual beings, even if they aren't meant to be that way.
This is my genre. This is what I hope to be querying in by the end of the year.
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Date: 2010-05-30 08:04 pm (UTC)What gets me is that I don't mind romance. I don't even mind a good romance triangle. And I don't mind romantic elements in my fantasy or whatever I am reading.
I just get tired of seeing female leads being this major object of affection for a large number of guys. I don't care if they are pretty or not. It just rubs me the wrong way. Can't there be something else? I don't see this as much with the male characters.
Because instead of seeing strong, female character . or normal female characters, I see women fetished as overly sexual beings, even if they aren't meant to be that way.
This is my genre. This is what I hope to be querying in by the end of the year.
And it just makes me pull my hair.