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AtraMikaDelia t1_j63hfec wrote

Reply to comment by jawnbaejaeger in Why are Colleen Hoover books so divisive? by sunnywatermelon18

> Lots of female readers enjoy her work, and people just fucking LOVE shitting all over ANYTHING women like or take pleasure in.

This doesn't make any sense, because the people hating on these books are also women. You'd be hard pressed to find many men who had an opinion on these books at all.

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CallynDS t1_j63re2d wrote

Imagine living in a world where only men like shitting on things that women take pleasure in. That would be a nicer world, but it's not our world.

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AtraMikaDelia t1_j63s01p wrote

So then why do things like Ready Player One also get hated on by the same groups of people? There's no gender bias to it, or at least not much of it, people just tend to hate on books that get too popular. And that really goes for everything, not just books.

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CallynDS t1_j640uii wrote

I don't think that they're getting hated on by the same groups of people or to the same degree. It's more similar to the hate that Twilight got, which was way out of proportion for the hate it deserved and was primarily because it was a book directed at young women.

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jawnbaejaeger t1_j647p9l wrote

If only internalized misogyny and women hating each other in an effort to make themselves "not like other girls" weren't a thing.

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