Posted by LLB on April 18, 2002 at 09:54:42:
In Reply to: Inconsistent standards posted by Karen M on April 18, 2002 at 09:39:36:
Karen -
In a sense, I can see where your post is coming from. The main difference is the audience. The audience for this web site is comprised of people who love romance. Yes, we might bitch and moan about it, but we read it all the time, we continue to read it even as we find some of it wanting. Look at it this way: I'm Jewish and a mom. I can complain to other Jewish moms that I know about how pushy Jewish moms are when it comes to their children and their children's intelligence and education. But if someone outside the faith starts doing the same, it's an attack because it's from the outside.
Now, the audience for the Idaho Statesman is people who live in Idaho. Some of those people are romance readers, some of those people are readers of Christian fiction, but the audience in the main is just Idahoans. So sending the message to that larger audience that romance novels are all filled w/sex and that there's an addiction factor in reading them is different than if you or I as romance readers complain to each other about the length of love scenes.
RLH has the right, of course, to move on to whatever her heart tells her to do. But the impression from the article is that she's burned her bridges behind her, and many of the people who read the article from the romance community believe they were standing on that bridge at the time.
TTFN, LLB
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