Thinking deep thinky thoughts about writing feminist romance

[kats_meow]

I read a great article here from a man's point of view (http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/27/your-princess-is-in-another-castle-misogyny-entitlement-and-nerds.html) about the horrific

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[lynnenne]

Great question. I think it must be, but I've honestly never read one set in the contemporary era. The last romance I read, The Time Traveler's Wife, was recommended to me up, down and sideways. After I finished it, I wanted to throw the book against the wall. The woman spends her entire life waiting for this man to come back to her, and not one single character sees a problem with that. It made me furious

[kats_meow]

I'm nodding a lot to everything that you wrote! As a reader, I don't like it when my women are put in unsafe or uncomfortable sexual situations - not that it's a trigger for me, it's just not real to me. I don't know women who would go in the dark room in the strange, empty house during the storm after they hear the noise etc., for example, like what bugs me about nearly every horror movie made. And I guess that's thing for me, too - don't make otherwise smart characters that I enjoy reading about make uncharacteristically, and as you mentioned(!), unexplained boneheaded choices