Comments on: The Female Gaze

By: Lisa

Lisa — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 01:46:08 +0000

I read this one with great amusement, as someone recently asked me what happened to the serial bodice-ripper we co-”wrote” a few years ago. I must confess I never kept a copy, so it has been lost to moi forever.

By: Uppity

Uppity — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:01:46 +0000

Bayushi - Every time I go back to South Dakota, I laugh at all the “regional” art posters the white folks sell to tourists. All the Native American heroes look like Swedes with black hair.

Jo - Though my personal experience with the romance genre is limited, I’ve never seen any of the “sweep her off her feet and dominate her” variety w/in the past 15 years. I’m sure some exist, somewhere, for a market of about 100 men, all of whom do the writing, buying and reading.

By: Jo

Jo — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:12:42 +0000

For some interesting statistics, see http://www.rwanational.org/cs/the_romance_genre/romance_literature_statistics/readership_statistics
Readership for romance novels is 20% men. That must be who’s buying those book covers.

A romance novel in which the man is a widow with no children is written for men. The rape-fantasy ones are as well. Behind many of those fancy author’s names lurks a man — many, many romance novels are penned by men. Who else would get turned on by the “sweep-her-off-her-feet and dominate her” themes?

By: bayushi

bayushi — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:44:39 +0000

I eagerly await your Uppity Romance line of books.

I was scoffing at the cover art of a romance novel this lady was reading on the train. I laughed not at her choice of literature, as I am a huge sci fi/fantasy geek and love my escapist books, but at the art.

Picture a shirtless bare chested Native American male on the cover, his chiseled physique a male siren call of lust and desire. The only problem is that the “Native” American was a caucasian with barely a hint of brown and a feather on his headband. It was as UnIndian as you could be …