Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writers and readers are still trying to work out unresolved problems between men and women, and that is why millions of women around the world are hooked on romantic fiction. So am I.
If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.
If you want to talk about a subject that is important to women, romantic fiction is the place to talk about it because that's where your audience is.
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.
Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.
From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.
Art is feminine.