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I'm not a fan of women authors on m/m romances. Sure, I don't think they should in any way be told they can't do it. However, I think it should be clear that gay men are not the target audience. It's fantasy fodder for women who see us as a fetish. I want a real, true romance and think I can only get that from a gay man who wants that in his own life.
I've started tagging my stuff with #ownvoices. No disrespect to female writers of m/m, much of it is very good. However, not a fan of the trend towards misandry in the form of torture, rape and mpreg as a result of it. Those are not gay male tropes imo.
1000 times yes! (I feel like Simon would have a lot to say about this.) I'm a gay woman who just wants to read about other gay people, but keep running in to straight women's creepy fetishistic fantasies. I love your books. Very relatable.
I have mixed feelings about it,but I'm mostly fine with it. I actually read tons of MM written by women, because there are a ton out there, and I've enjoyed a vast majority of them. There was a time that I assumed MM was written by gay men, as a lot of the pen names were masculine or gender neutral, but I was shocked to find out that they were written by women! I kept finding reading more and more of such books I started to wonder if gay men wrote MM fiction anymore! I believe when I started reading gay fiction, as it was called at the time, those books were actually written by gay men.
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I'm not a fan of women authors on m/m romances. Sure, I don't think they should in any way be told they can't do it. However, I think it should be clear that gay men are not the target audience. It's fantasy fodder for women who see us as a fetish. I want a real, true romance and think I can only get that from a gay man who wants that in his own life.
I've started tagging my stuff with #ownvoices. No disrespect to female writers of m/m, much of it is very good. However, not a fan of the trend towards misandry in the form of torture, rape and mpreg as a result of it. Those are not gay male tropes imo.
1000 times yes! (I feel like Simon would have a lot to say about this.) I'm a gay woman who just wants to read about other gay people, but keep running in to straight women's creepy fetishistic fantasies. I love your books. Very relatable.
I have mixed feelings about it,but I'm mostly fine with it. I actually read tons of MM written by women, because there are a ton out there, and I've enjoyed a vast majority of them. There was a time that I assumed MM was written by gay men, as a lot of the pen names were masculine or gender neutral, but I was shocked to find out that they were written by women! I kept finding reading more and more of such books I started to wonder if gay men wrote MM fiction anymore! I believe when I started reading gay fiction, as it was called at the time, those books were actually written by gay men.
Brilliant Sean and thanks!