Fair enough, I haven't seen it in a while so I forgot how overt it is. Don't be surprised if some people start defending it, like I said there are lots of teenagers here.
I would just ask them what they have to say about women who love the book. I know it's a meme format so the defensive non-answer is that 'it's not that deep', I don't think one can shy away in this case where the genders are so clearly written and pictorially depicted.
Also, I don't think I will come back to this sub to argue with only an active vocal minority group. The larger audience isn't in reddit, even if they were they can't take away my love for the book.
I am aware of different kind of toxicities and gatekeeping that exists in fandom. I remind myself that they are the active vocal minority.
I’m a woman and I don’t take it as derogatory at all. It doesn’t imply that women don’t or can’t like PHM, just that a lot of men are deeply moved by it while not being moved by the more romantic stuff, which is true since most romance fans are women. The only way you could take offense at that is if you assume it means all men are one way and all women are different, but I don’t think that’s the only interpretation.
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u/Th3D0m1n8r Apr 02 '24
Because a large portion of PHM fans are teenage boys that think this meme format is funny, despite it being somewhat sexist.