Flack For Having Interracial Males

[MelissaBaby]

I know Loving Wives is prone to racist comments from readers about black males being in stories.

I was wondering about Romantic though? Has anyone seen a "belongs in Interracial" kind of comment there?

I introduced a Black male/White female relationship in an ongoing Romance series, and did not get any negative feedback.

I will say that it seemed like I got a higher than usual number of 1-Bombs, but they were swept out, and there's no way of knowing the reason for them.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Nope. I think readers in Romance are more accepting if the theme is romance and the story is in fact a romance, with the emphasis their rather than on the racial aspects.

Loving wives is heavily focused on outrage at cheating wives, and what’s worse for a WM than a WF wife cheating with aBBC? Oh my goodness the fervour and outrage that arouses!

IR as a category really is BM/WF focused, and other combos just float on by.

As for WM/AF, there’s a lot of reasons for that, many of them associated with East Asian culture and the culturally grounded attitude to females. Speaking from some experience, I’ve had trends where all the kids came here from China or Hong Kong to go to school. In both cases, the boys returned, the girls stayed and married? You guessed it, WMs. It’s an interesting phenomena and one that’s made it’s way into a number of novels by Asian writers.

Anyhow, writing as I do about the AF and generally WM experience, I’ve put WM/AF stories across a number of categories and never had any comment that they belong in IR. I suspect where it happens, it’s largely because the story emphasizes a racial theme heavily.

In my own stories, race is always a theme, but more as background than something that’s the main theme, unlike aBBC story, where the main character is usually the BBC with some sort of person behind it..

I feel like it's like any other theme/possible themes... depends on the focal point. Just because a character pisses themselves once or twice doesn't exactlt make it a watersports story. Then some readers are just stupid. I have a story on here that simply mentions a character is black and a reader was like; "This should be in interacial, complete turn-off." When that wasn't even the point, sub-point, sub-sub-point of the story and just briefly mentioned in conversation. Yet in my AG: The Mask; it's blantant, but still not exactly the point of the story, or focus, as the focus is the mask and what it does. No complaints there about it... yet.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

To me, IR means black male and white female, with explorations or exploitation of USA (mostly) racialized dynamics. I dislike that. I tag some stories as MultiRacial -- and writing multiracial incest was a fun challenge. But mainly, people meet people and they fuck. Caucasians, Africans, Asians and Islanders, indigenous peoples of the Americas, all get together and fuck. Maybe I'm a coward for not working on racialized dynamics. So sue me.

I try to do more stories with black leads. Sometimes I don't really throw any race in a story, and I figure people will just assume the characters are white, as an automatic go to, factory settings thing. I'm black, so why wouldn't I want to write black characters, at least they aren't stereotypical when I do, being thugs and loving fat white women.... I do love me some fat white women...