October 31st, 2009 (03:33 pm)
current mood: bored
We officially start the Christmas baking this weekend. It's early, I know, but I have to send goodie packages and I don't feel like baking all day, so it's better to start early.
While I was separating egg white and yolk, not only as interesting as watching grass grow, but also tricky for someone as clumsy as me, my mind wandered.
I never understood the many too-stupid-to-live romance heroines. These novels are aimed at women, often written by women, so they should make some effort, no? But then I wondered if it isn't done on purpose. Like not making male audience feel threatened by showing uh *cough* better-endowed men on screen. So the heroine is beautiful, young, rich (or will marry rich at the end of the book), gets Prince Charming, maybe a warrioress, princess, sorceress, but the reader can still feel smug in the knowledge that she'd be the better match for Prince Charming. HER, the reader, he wouldn't have to save every five minutes, she wouldn't whine and so on, so it's alright that the heroine gets the guy and not the reader because if it's her in the book, he'd obviously chose her over the heroine.