tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444345779135222756.post632980555163973687..comments2024-03-27T07:52:23.529-04:00Comments on Susanne Saville - Caffeinated Natter: Why Het Romance Is BoringSusanne Savillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10765213850455904878noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444345779135222756.post-58281766950947626512011-08-21T14:49:45.358-04:002011-08-21T14:49:45.358-04:00This is a very interesting comment!! Thank you fo...This is a very interesting comment!! Thank you for taking the time to type it all here.<br /><br />And you know I love it when you prattle. ;)Susanne Savillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10765213850455904878noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1444345779135222756.post-38041230060509652562011-08-20T16:59:55.390-04:002011-08-20T16:59:55.390-04:00I can only speak for myself, but this is my opinio...I can only speak for myself, but this is my opinion:<br /><br />This may make me sound ugly, but I can't help but hold women characters to a higher standard than men (believe me I've tried not to). Partly because I am sensitive to the portrayal of women in the media, it carries on to aspects of entertainment I enjoy for pure leisure (like fiction). It's like that for any poorly-represented minority, be it women or Asians or even punks. It's only until I approve of them that I can ease up. <br /><br />I've also become sick of hetero romance in every damn thing I read or watch. It's shoved down my throat constantly and I just want something new. This may account to straight romance being boring to me as well. <br /><br />Not just the straight romance, but romance in movies and books (I don't watch romantic comedies or read romance novels) are presumably engineered by heterosexual men for heterosexual men, and though I firmly believe women and men are exactly the same in many ways, there can often be a disconnect in what women find sexy and what men find sexy. <br /><br />I admit sex sells. I find slash fanfiction or yaoi manga "sadly" lacking if it has no smut. It's a gratification that clean prose/art doesn't have, and I have to mentally tell myself that it's not necessarily needed if fanfiction is good enough without smut. However, when it comes (heh) to titillation, I personally find gay sex to be much more exciting. By far. So as far as sex goes, I like man-on-man.<br /><br />Another thing is that my preference of fanfiction comes from Japanese media such as manga and video games. Because women are treated much worse there than women here, it's not surprising that you'd come across weak and uninspiring women characters. Because I don't like them, I don't want to read about them, and I certainly don't want them the focus of my reading. Although that is not a direct impact of why I like slash and dislike het, it's worth mentioning. <br /><br />...sorry for prattling on. heh.Nuclear Tastenoreply@blogger.com