In real life, Marcie's attitude towards dating would be perfectly normal. It's just here that it's treated as so horrible.
I know it's always argued that books are fantasy and not real, blah blah, but these fantasies simply don't mesh with our morals nowadays, which is where the problem lies. Yeah, sure, they worked in the past but we aren't in the past anymore and women have really different expectations of themselves and their fellow woman now. I'm sorry to any romance writers out there but the genre really needs to grow up.
And considering that NORA kept insisting that she did not want to date and only fell in "love" with Patch because he stalked her endlessly, it seems a tad hypocritical of her to bitch about Marcie's preferences.
Man, and I fell for Tidus because he was nice to me and wrote me cheesy poems and ya know, was nice to me. No stalking involved.
There is a cold comfort with Bella and Meyer's stupidity. In the end, you just feel bad for how utterly stupid they are. With Nora, it's I who feels like the stupid one because I just wonder if I'm completely missing the point of a joke or something.
Oh, I never thought of that! Do you mean make the quotes a different color, or the rest of the sporkings? I'll be sure to give it a try.
Well, it's more your preference but I would go with the quotes because those are fewer and easier to HTML.
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Date: 2014-03-29 01:04 am (UTC)I know it's always argued that books are fantasy and not real, blah blah, but these fantasies simply don't mesh with our morals nowadays, which is where the problem lies. Yeah, sure, they worked in the past but we aren't in the past anymore and women have really different expectations of themselves and their fellow woman now. I'm sorry to any romance writers out there but the genre really needs to grow up.
And considering that NORA kept insisting that she did not want to date and only fell in "love" with Patch because he stalked her endlessly, it seems a tad hypocritical of her to bitch about Marcie's preferences.
Man, and I fell for Tidus because he was nice to me and wrote me cheesy poems and ya know, was nice to me. No stalking involved.
There is a cold comfort with Bella and Meyer's stupidity. In the end, you just feel bad for how utterly stupid they are. With Nora, it's I who feels like the stupid one because I just wonder if I'm completely missing the point of a joke or something.
Oh, I never thought of that! Do you mean make the quotes a different color, or the rest of the sporkings? I'll be sure to give it a try.
Well, it's more your preference but I would go with the quotes because those are fewer and easier to HTML.