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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana
I have never seen anyone whinging at the mention of the word genre. I've only seen people getting defensive when the word genre has been used as a pejorative. I haven't seen allegations of pretension based on what someone reads, but on their attitudes toward those who read genre.
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Exactly.
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Oh dilemma, you guys. You see, there is this awful post and comments written by some guy out there on the internet on the topic of romances.
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What the modern reader needs to understand is that romance novels by their very nature are meant to be inferior.
I think it’s safe to say that no Ivy League school will ever teach out of romance novels as part of the curriculum. No romance novel will ever be thought of as a classic along side Spencer, Bunyan, Swift and Dickens. If a romance story were that good, it would no longer be referred to as romance, but would instead simply be known as drama or literary fiction or a classic love story. If you think about it, there are of course a handful of classic novels that fit the description of the latter: novels that are full of romantic love but which are so well written that they aren’t thought of as romance novels/stories. Romeo and Juliet probably tops the list (though it was a play of course) followed by Jane Eyre. No one would call Jane Eyre a “romance novel.” It would instead be referred to as a “classic love story.” The very thing that separates classic love stories from romance novels is that romance novels must by default be bad, tacky even, or they’ll no longer be classified as romance novels and will get placed in a higher category.
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I feel like he is being intentionally degrading in order to get hits. Plus, he is deleting comments according to various individuals who have left comments. I don’t want to link to him and give him the page hits. On the other hand, per my inbox and twitter feed, many readers already know about it. In sum, Cale McCarthy, possibly gaslighting us romance readers for attention, says that romances are all inferior and his view of us is summed up in one of his comments:
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“You might be surprised by this, but well adjusted women do not sit around thinking about romance as though they were still in junior high. Have a nice day. Have it away from me.”
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Seriously, why am I writing about this? The good thing is that Cale McCarthy won’t have any trouble staying single given that he views any woman who reads romance as his intellectual inferior.
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This is the type of crap that genre readers have to deal with every day.
So, no. There is no " 'constant tsunami' of defensive whinging on the part of genre readers." Instead we're just sick and tired of the unnecessary pompous BS and are starting to respond back in kind.