Did Trump kill romance?

I subscribe to over a hundred sub-stact newsletters,

but one of the most thought-provoking that I look forward to in my inbox

is from Oceana Tepphintheart,

I hope I'm pronouncing it correctly.

Earlier this week, she wrote about the death of romantic comedies,

Ram Combs, and the impact the genre had on an entire generation

when it dominated the 1990s.

I believe romantic comedies damaged in entire generations expectations of

dating. There's an entire generation of men and women who think dating should be like a

romance movie.

Robcoms are great at tricking women into seeing the best and awful men and tricking

decent men into being total losers.

These movies and their toxic messages wrecked the love lives and dating

mentality of millions of people."

Now those excerpts lose a lot of a nuance so Siana brought to her

excellent article.

So you should read the original, but hopefully illustrate some of the

brilliant points she made. Her micro view into the average personal impact

romcom's head on individuals growing up in the 90s, however, got me thinking about the macro

implications of such changes in our overall entertainment culture and what it

might mean in terms of their larger societal and political ramifications.

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