It could be a reaction to the fact that there is an academic bias against romance novels. Those of us who read them feel picked upon. You can be writing one of the least biased, most even-handed article, but if you are not a consumer of the genre, it is assumed you have the intellectual bias. Because we have been looked down upon for a long time. I remember an introduction from Marion Zimmer Bradley where she admitted amazement that her very organized intelligent secretary admitted to reading romance novels. I also had a physics teacher who openly sneered at a romance novel she picked up when it fell out of a student's book bag.
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Date: 2011-05-29 01:51 pm (UTC)From:You tripped into a mine field.