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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I didn't say HOW MUCH respect there was for chick lit... just that it had more than sci-fi! (At least chick-lit readers are depicted in popular culture as normal people with a somewhat guilty reading pleasure, as opposed to smelly geeks who will never get girls...)  |
Okay. I'll give you that one!
I would also like to add the geek impression also includes a fairly high-intellectual level. . .smelly, brainiacs. . .but brainiacs non-the-less!
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Originally Posted by ShortNCuddlyAm
And thought of by most book sellers(*) as airheads with no intelligence or personality.
(*Based on a study of the dozen or so people I worked with when I used to work in a bookshop... )
(Edited to add: this is not how I think of people who read chick-lit, but it was how most of my co-workers did  ) |
Or desperately lonely spinsters!
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Originally Posted by Peverel
I have been known to read and enjoy chick lit and sci fi - I hope that doesn't expodentially compound my airheadedness  |
I'm sorry, Pev.
I guess there's no hope for you.
I happen to like both Sci-Fi and Romance, although I will say I prefer romance. I like happy endings. I think life is hard enough to deal with without reading something that will depress me during my "off hours". That's why I prefer romantic comedies and action movies. I don't have to be real cerebral, I can just enjoy it!
Bottom line, though, wouldn't it be nice if we could do away with all stereotypes and just accept each other for what/who we are. I think that is something that is DEFINITELY way over due.
