@romancelandia
Found via @tuphlos on twitter, this piece has some blood pressure-raising bits; the most important is the assumption that changing the covers of genre romances of different heat levels/sexual content, changes the actual content.
"oh, these books that are no longer coded erotic romance are actually good stories/writing/characters, but I couldn't have known unless they had acceptable covers" is a thing said there.
@romancelandia I want to note that, once upon a time (within the past couple of decades), some mostly-kisses and fade-to-black romances started to get covers that mimicked the erotica/erotic romance coded covers: monochromatic with a pop of color, high heel and rose, wine glass and rose, etc.
We are seeing the inverse trend right now.
The stories within? The same fucking stories, with the same heat or lack.
whenever people talk about having "no politics or religion" in their "entertainment", I think of how fucking intellectually lazy they have to be not to come up with a better fig leaf for their complicity.
These people basically say, "if you read these and like them, you deserve violence, so we'll protect your from yourself y controlling your every fucking breath"