tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post3463529350995421995..comments2023-11-22T06:35:25.251-05:00Comments on POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS: Against the Grain: Unlearning What We Know About RelationshipsJulia Buckleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10270211923343731659noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-30284384138913371802009-02-05T17:03:00.000-05:002009-02-05T17:03:00.000-05:00Leslie Budewitz asked me to pass on that the discu...Leslie Budewitz asked me to pass on that the discussion of male romance was started by Elaine Viets on the Lipstick Chronicles a few years ago.Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-47348705387393402382009-02-05T15:36:00.000-05:002009-02-05T15:36:00.000-05:00A lot of relationships break up as soon as the "ro...A lot of relationships break up as soon as the "romance" fades. Men are every bit as guilty as this kind of serial romance as women are. Romance novels feed the fantasy and probably make a lot of women unsatisfied with their real relationships.<BR/><BR/>It's interesting that modern heroes, in all forms of fiction, are considered more attractive when they finally reveal their "vulnerable" side. Sandra Parshallhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17403144248962124138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-78096573232561909012009-02-05T14:42:00.000-05:002009-02-05T14:42:00.000-05:00Sheila, there was a wonderful piece on "male roman...Sheila, there was a wonderful piece on "male romance" in either the MWA or the SinC newsletter a couple of years back, by either Elaine Viets or the late Elaine Flinn (I apologize for my aging memory!) to the effect that the action thriller in which the hero, especially the middle-aged hero, fights off six guys before breakfast without so much as an eyebrow out of place and beds every woman he Elizabeth Zelvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13944424094949207841noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8056815460076050228.post-78228263858354825762009-02-05T09:14:00.000-05:002009-02-05T09:14:00.000-05:00By Gray's standards, my husband and I have reverse...By Gray's standards, my husband and I have reversed roles: I want to fix things, he worries. <BR/><BR/>I started out trying to write romance (which I do badly), which required that I read a lot of romances, something I had avoided for years. I'm still puzzling over the imagery perpetuated in the genre, and I have to think that it's the female fantasy that drives the books: what women wish a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com