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“Real men just aren’t that sexy”: how romantasy took over women’s literature

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开始于 July 25, 2026

The queue for the shop Bad Girl Books stretches down Oxford’s Walton Street for a good hour and a half. It’s the launch day of the UK’s only romantasy-only bookshop, and hundreds of young and middle-aged women are waiting to be let through its pastel-pink doors. Topless adolescent boys swagger down the street. “What is …

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“Real men just aren’t that sexy”: how romantasy took over women’s literature

New Statesman (United Kingdom) | Jul 25, 2026

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

Romantasy's appeal to women across ages and education levels suggests that readers themselves are the best judges of what stories matter to them, not critics or institutions.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

Women's reading preferences deserve the same cultural respect and shelf space as any other genre, regardless of whether critics view them as lowbrow or highbrow.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

Romantasy's explosive popularity indicates escapism has become more appealing to women than engagement with contemporary realities.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

The cultural conversation about women's reading should focus on why readers make the choices they do, not on judging those choices as wrong.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

The commercial success of romantasy shows that the publishing industry had been systematically underinvesting in stories centred on adult women's agency and sexuality.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

Whether romantasy is 'high' or 'low' art, its readers should be able to discuss what appeals to them without defensiveness or mockery from other readers.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

Publishing houses have a legitimate right to create dedicated bookshops and marketing strategies for romantasy, just as they do for any profitable genre.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

Romantasy's dominance in women's publishing means other fiction genres written by and for women now struggle for visibility and shelf space.

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CLAIM 发布者 admin • Jul 25, 2026

Male characters in romantasy are often written with greater emotional depth and vulnerability than their counterparts in traditional romance, expanding rather than narrowing masculine representation.

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The romanticisation of physically perfect male characters in romantasy can reinforce unrealistic beauty standards as much as any other media genre.

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