corseque:

I’ve been listening to this “romance between the pages” podcast where romance authors interview other romance authors (overwhelmingly women) and I’ve noticed a trend that makes me Ben-afleck-smoking-jpeg

I’ve listened to 50+ interviews, and these are extremely successful authors who have written dozens of books and are making absolute bank for their families, and this is always, always the same in every interview:

Interviewer: Does your husband read your books?

Author: You know what? He’s never read a single one, or even tried to.

Interviewer: (laughs in an ‘oh men’ way) That’s the answer we always get. I wonder why that is?

Me, listening: You know why.

I could understand them reading a book or two and then deciding it isn’t their jam, but this is purely women’s narratives being devalued. Even when their wives are primary breadwinners, these dudes never even contemplate reading their wives’ stories. This is part of why, when traditionally male narratives are switched to woman’s narratives in popular franchises, men lose their goddamn minds. It’s just so unthinkable to have to endure a story not entirely catered to them.