Comments on: The Romance Apologia Scale

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Racy Romance Reviews » Blog Archive » Academic’s Apologia Scale — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:24:17 +0000

[...] everyone, I laughed my ass off when I read Jane’s Romance Apologia Scale over at Dear Author. It’s one of the best posts of [...]

By: Stumbling Over Chaos :: And we’ll keep on linking ’til they take our linkiness away

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:03:55 +0000

[...] the very amusing Romance Apologia Scale on the Dear Author blog that I mentioned last week? Yesterday, Dear Author had an excellent (albeit [...]

By: Jessica Freely

Jessica Freely — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:34:40 +0000

LOL. Thanks for this. Very amusing and highly useful.

By: CJ

CJ — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 16:34:34 +0000

We could stick a “fuck off” on an e-book reader, but I’ve noticed since buying my sony, people don’t know I’m reading romances, so I get approached from an entirely different standpoint. They are more curious about the reader than what I’m reading. If they get to the point of asking what I read, then they start with the romance bashing (I could lie, but I refuse to be ashamed of my dirty girl books). I’ve never told anyone to fuck off, but I have gotten snide and snarky. I usually get accused of reading it just for the sex. My normal response is “well, I could go into a lengthy explaination about the personal dynamics of the main characters, the conflicts they must overcome during the course of the story, and how the sexual situations help the characters grow closer, but really, I’m just a whore… for a happy ending.”

Fuck off would save so much time.

And now I’m going to start stealing the Gladys Kravitz line. Cause I’m shameless like that.

By: Stevie

Stevie — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 12:19:28 +0000

Please accept my felicitations upon a truly superb contribution to social anthropolgy, but what about e-book readers?

Maybe we could just stick ‘Fuck Off’ on the kindle…

By: Ann Somerville

Ann Somerville — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:38:47 +0000

Hey, LL – how about you go forth and procreate?

@Meljean:
I wonder what a Regency ‘fuck off’ would sound like?

“Sir
I do not deserve the honour you wish to bestow upon me.

Would that you did also.

EB”

By: Meljean

Meljean — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:40:10 +0000

I daresay that Elizabeth Bennett’s response to Darcy’s first proposal was essentially, “Fuck off.”

And she’s a witty girl, that Lizzie. Uses a few too many words to get to her point, but still witty.

By: Jane

Jane — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:43:20 +0000

@LL: That presumes I had wit in the first place upon which romance novels could take a toll.

By: LL

LL — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 20:38:13 +0000

Really? “Fuck off” qualifies as a “good comeback”? Hmmmmm…. Methinks all that romance novel reading is taking a toll on your wit.

By: cecilia

cecilia — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 22:37:44 +0000

@Mike Cane: How do you get "AntiChrist of Romance" out of "confronted me with incredulity"?