serralinda73 t1_je3iw61 wrote
Is it weird for women to enjoy any other genre of books "catered" to...the general public (meaning for the most part - men)? Sorry, but this is one of those questions that are just...weird.
Your self-esteem or self-identity should be strong enough to admit you enjoy what you enjoy and your gender or sexuality has nothing to do with it. Why let other people dictate your preferences based on something so vague? Anyway, who is going to know? The clerk at the bookstore? Does their opinion matter?
Read whatever the hell you want to read. Good for you, recognizing that what you enjoy might not feed into the narrative of "men only like hyper-masculine main characters and are too narrowminded to relate to a character who is, first and foremost, meant to represent a human being".
Women shouldn't be inherently unreliable to men. If more men exposed themselves to stories written about and by women, they'd know we're not all that different inside, or in the challenges we face as people.
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