This comic seems to have triggered quite a few feminists
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where to begin... fifty shades... twilight... anita blake, vampire hunter....an entire genre of trashy romance novels often colloquially referred to as "bodice rippers," so named for the women on the front covers often having their tops ripped off by half naked men... the list goes on...
So many of those urban fantasy paranormal book series! If it's written by a woman, it's almost certainly that kind of porn shit where everyone man (and male creature) fucks the main female character.
It's so bad, because I want more good urban fantasy.
what's funny is the modern supernatural aren't even the most prominent settings/genres (at least not traditionally). you have western, victorian, and medieval settings quite often.
sadly kinda true. i actually liked the anita blake books at first, but they got so smutty after a while, i just couldn't stand it... put it this way, i guess her editors figured out men were reading them, because the author actually had a lesbian scene that was so out of place, it was an actual turn-off...
Hell yeah.
I did. It had lots of good parts, but also so much cringe. I remember one of the novels that had Dresden speak to Titania, and out of the fucking blue, the author wrote a pro-gay marriage manifesto. Completely broke the suspension of disbelief, and seemed utterly out of place.
Or in the most recent one, he randomly killed off Murphy in a moronic way (even if I didn't particularly care for her), patently obviously only to have her be out of the way while he writes his fetish of Dresden being in a relationship with a vampire, and being "forced" to take part in it because of Mab, so that we can't hold him responsible for moving on from his long-term relationship at the drop of a penny.
There were many memorable events, like riding a tyrannosaurus skeleton to battle or channelling the power of a leyline to fend off an immortal shapeshifting creature, but the amount of woke, 4th wall breaking crap, makes me hesitant to really recommend the series to anyone.
Oh man. We were visiting my in-laws a few years ago and my mother-in-law had a dozen of these books lying around. So, curiosity getting the better of me, I read a handful of them.
Absolute trash. A harem fantasy with every member either being psychologically or physically abusive towards the heroine. Exceptions include a twink minor and several simps, who she fucked for status and power.
Really eye-opening that women find this appealing.
the story itself wasn't bad in the first few books, the world building was legitimately good, and the main character had some refreshingly based moments, but yeah, they were always a little smutty and they became straight up literary porn over time...
Even lesbian writing features rape! The vagina monologues is one example.
never read it, all i can think of is the seth mcfarlane gag making fun ot it about a literal vagina doing standup.
Yep, if you wanted to peek into a womans mind, pick up any kinda romancy drama material. 50 shades of grey was a huge hit, and it wasnt straight men who were reading it. Most poor women(aka most of the population) fantasizes about being some rich dudes fuckpuppet.
I remember being so bored as a little kid one time I picked up one of me mums books and started to read it.
ROFL something about a aztec princess getting checked to make sure her hymen was still in place and the whole book is basically about her meeting this stud from some strange foreign land.
I put that down pretty quick. Turns out I dont really like that stuff, I like adventure, maybe a little bit of romance, but mostly adventure.
Who would have guessed men and women are so different.
...not gonna lie, i looked up fifty shades when it came out...
...it's a wonder I didn't die laughing, honestly...