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He said they'd laugh about him, if I remember correctly.
With fantasy in particular sometimes I get the impression there are people who think each and every fantasy story must be a cookie-cutter copy of LotR, so anything which is not a quest to save the world with a magic artifact at the centre must be something that is not fantasy.
I don't know, some people just try to redefine reality rather than change their assummptions. People start with the idea of "Genre X is stupid. This book is not stupid, so it can't be genre X, because it is inconceivable that my assumption is wrong." (I see that in other fields, too. "All women are stupid about maths/tech. If a woman is good in those fields, she is not a counter-example. She must have some hormone imbalance that gave her a male brain.")
I gravitate to fantasy and science fiction for various reasons, including that I like fanciful escapism. And I avoid romance because I assume that the stories are about how a woman's life revolves around hooking up with a man, which just doesn't interest me.
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