The randomly chosen winner of the ARC of Not Wicked Enough is . . . Kaetrin I’ve sent you an email but feel free to email me directly (carolyn AT carolynjewel.com) with your mailing address!
The randomly chosen winner of the ARC of Not Wicked Enough is . . . Kaetrin I’ve sent you an email but feel free to email me directly (carolyn AT carolynjewel.com) with your mailing address!
Normally, I don’t cross-post my own blog with this one, but I’m making an exception because this has me hopping mad.
Last night, I posted this on my blog:
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Go take a look at what Mr. Cale McCaskey has to tell us about Romance: The Problem with Romance
Women are, of course, quite familiar with arguments like his. They’ve been used for centuries to denigrate anything associated with women that would, if left unremarked, disprove the bias.
Basically, he’s saying that all Romance novels are inferior because if a book that might otherwise be called a romance is actually good, it’s necessarily anything but a romance. This is EXACTLY like the Victorian era physicians who performed an autopsy on a respected colleague only to discover that their colleague was a woman. When faced with the presence of female genitalia, they pronounced her a hermaphrodite. Because it just wasn’t possible for a WOMAN to have been successfully masquerading as a physician and to have been good at it, too.
Right. When the evidence contradicts you, redefine the world rather than adjust your assumptions.
I’m told he’s busy deleting comments he doesn’t like, so feel free to read his post and come comment here if you worry he’ll disagree with you and have to delete your comment in an attempt to keep his narrow world view safe from anything like truth or an open mind. [Risky Readers can comment here if they like.]
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The intellectually challenged among us, which, I guess is anyone who reads romance, can comment about rainbows, unicorns and glitter. If you need help forming a coherent thought, I’m so sorry I’m too dumb to help you.
I am at RWA in Anaheim where internet access is limited. So I will only tell you now that I will have a real post for you next week.
What a week. And it’s only Wednesday. I just want this post to be a big sigh of relief as well as sorrow.
To my fellow Riskies who were in the path of hurricane Sandy, I am SO glad you’re OK.
I want to cry when I think of the lives lost while I thank goodness for the First Responders, who put their lives on the line, and for all the people who worked in the background before, during, after, and in the days ahead.
I’ve donated to the Red Cross relief effort and will surely do so again in the coming days and weeks. We’re only just beginning to get a handle on what it will take to recover.
