Romance novels - how women objectify men.

[LJ_Reloaded]

Feminists love to rant about how porn objectifies women. But they never want to utter a peep about how women's fiction objectifies men.

In a major study done on romance novels it turns out that the most popular careers for male heroes fall into three categories: bad boys (alpha males), walking wallets (high income earners who can clearly afford to shell out huge amounts of money to impress or woo a woman), and meat shields (men who risk their lives protecting the woman). Do note how the men who do not fall into one of those three categories - such as midwives and secretaries - fall close to the very bottom of the list. Programmers, garbage collectors and barristas don't even show up.

Examples of the bestselling romance novels include:

Billionaire (walking wallet)

Navy Seal (meat shield)

US Navy man (meat shield)

A Prince (walking wallet)

A Sheikh (walking wallet)

http://i.imgur.com/ED22SKl.jpg
A billionaire (walking wallet)

Romance novels, of course, play to women's fantasies. And women's fantasies are to be rescued, taken care of, or otherwise pampered by men. Women, with notable exceptions, do not fantasize about taking care of or rescuing their man. In fact for the most part such things are a killjoy for most women.

Which is why the overwhelming majority of romance novels, even those outside of Harlequin, follow this same formula of male objectification.

But as the responses to this will show, people think objectification is okay when a woman does it.

 

[renard_ruse]

Consultants?

 

[richard_daily]

Just one of the many ways that LT is inadequate to women.

 

[Tryharder62]

They don't try to hide it!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC1uaMywEjA

 

[hashtag45]

Why would I want to be romanced by a garbage collector?

 

[removed9556]

 

[hashtag45]

You prefer him to throw you into landfill immediately, without the sweet-talking?

That was a good one, actually.
Different fron the condescending crap that you used to post after mine.
Keep it up.

 

[barefootgirl69]

Why would I want to be romanced by a garbage collector?

I knew a very sexy garbage collector once. Always made sure I took the dog out for a walk on those days.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Why would I want to be romanced by a garbage collector?

Like I said, most women do not value a man's love, they only love a man's value.

That is the very basis of objectification.

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

Like I said, most women do not value a man's love, they only love a man's value.

That is the very basis of objectification.

women change their tunes when they hit their 30s and find that they're no longer desirable.

Speaking of objectification........

 

[lovecraft68]

On Saturday night most men are enjoying time with their wives or girlfriends.

LJ is spending tonight bumping all of his current women hating threads.

Not hard to see why he hates them, he doesn't have one.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

On Saturday night most men are enjoying time with their wives or girlfriends.

And you're here, flailing desperately at me.

LJ is spending tonight bumping all of his current women hating threads.

Not hard to see why he hates them, he doesn't have one.

Says the guy who fantasizes about fucking his daughter.

Now would you care to show proof of your claim that I threatened you on your blog or is this where you run away from me again like a scared little bitch?

 

[RollingOntheBed]

They call it hypergamy - marrying up. I think it's fair. Most men are wired to value a woman's youth and beauty for procreation reasons. Her intelligence and character are secondary. Men who claim otherwise are lying. So most women are biologically wired to look for mates who can demonstrate grace under pressure and provide resources.

Accepting this may be less painful than resisting the truth.

 

[lovecraft68]

Hey, check it out, I found LJ as a little kid!

This is where it all began for him. Notice the sucker shot, even then he couldn't fight fair....and the results? Are why we have all these women hating threads now.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'll bet LT has discovered this empirically for himself.



He's probably read thousands of those seedy paperbacks...

 

[richard_daily]

Like I said, most women do not value a man's love, they only love a man's value.

That is the very basis of objectification.

And since you're a broke short guy, you imagine that this is the reason that no woman wants anything to do with you.

The real reason that women want nothing to do with you though, is because you're a bitter crank, who hates women.

 

[lovecraft68]

And since you're a broke short guy, you imagine that this is the reason that no woman wants anything to do with you.

The real reason that women want nothing to do with you though, is because you're a bitter crank, who hates women.

And he skews everything and only looks for examples or 'stats' that fit his hate campaign.

I know several women that have excellent careers and are with men who make far less money than them and aren't overly attractive either. Why are they with them? Because they're good guys who treat them right. Most women will take a good guy over the job or the body.

But that's reality, not the LJ Twilight zone.

 

[RoryN]

walking wallets (high income earners who can clearly afford to shell out huge amounts of money to impress or woo a woman)...Programmers...don't even show up.

Many programmers earn big $$. As do IT directors, and top-level software engineers.

Why aren't they in romance novels more frequently? Because the stereotype is that they're socially-inept geeks who have no idea what to do with a woman.

A lady's dislike of insufferable nerds generally has nothing to do with their wallets. You dry up vaginas just by being you, LT.

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Hey, check it out, I found LJ as a little kid!

This is where it all began for him. Notice the sucker shot, even then he couldn't fight fair....and the results? Are why we have all these women hating threads now.

How well do your "I want to fuck my daughter" fantasies sell again?

 

[LJ_Reloaded]

Many programmers earn big $$. As do IT directors, and top-level software engineers.

Why aren't they in romance novels more frequently? Because the stereotype is that they're socially-inept geeks who have no idea what to do with a woman.

A lady's dislike of insufferable nerds generally has nothing to do with their wallets. You dry up vaginas just by being you, LT.

And to think you try so hard to win women like that with your male feminist rhetoric and you still fail. Even online.

How does it feel being in the same boat with the very worst of geeks despite years of simping and groveling like this?

 

[lovecraft68]

http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=1332156

 

[Fermina_Daza]

I like the ones where someone dies and no sex (on the pages). The Great Gatsby or Anna Karenina. Atonement? Dracula? No?

 

[cinnefille]

the most popular careers for male heroes fall into three categories: bad boys (alpha males), walking wallets (high income earners who can clearly afford to shell out huge amounts of money to impress or woo a woman), and meat shields (men who risk their lives protecting the woman).

meat shields?

garbage collectors and barristas don't even show up.[/b]

Hell no!

 

[rae121452]

fuck yeah. objectify me. i'm just a 24/7 erection wanting to stick my huge meat in any quivering aperture. do they have gay romance novels?

 

[OldJourno]

Stacy Abrams, standing on the sidelines shouting "pick me, pick me" when ever Biden makes noise about choosing a running mate, has written a few of these overheated novels.

Writing as Selena Montgomery, Abrams' novels include Hidden Sins, Rules of Engagement, Our Time is Now, The Art of Desire and Hiding the Black Snake.
That's a whole lot of objectifying going on, right LT?