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Originally Posted by hildea
I've tried rereading some of the romances I loved as a teenager in the 80s, and they've aged even worse than the SF I loved at that time. They really were horribly rapey.
Romance has changed a lot in the last forty years, though. If you like regency romances and are interested in seeing where the genre is now, I suggest checking out "The Governess Affair" by Courtney Milan, it's a free novella, so it won't require a huge investment of time or money. |
Agreed, I got into romance by reading early Fern Michaels, I can no longer read/stomach those books, and she no longer writes those kinds of books. But that was the style back then.
Fortunately, as you said romance has come a long way since then and I hope very few are writing those kinds of books now. But I have since moved on to a different genre of romance.
As for the claim itself, I have no doubt that minority writers of all persuasions are marginalized where ever they can be within big organizations. This will shine a light on it, and hopefully things will change for the better.