Justice for Dragons
Hot and Bothered
Not Sorry Productions
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🗓️ 16 July 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Vanessa Zoltan thinks that happy endings are the best part of romance novels. Bryce Gilfillian is writing his first romance novel and refuses to write a happy ending.
This week on Hot and Bothered, we explore the trope of “Updated Fairytale.” Bryce sets out to write the gay fairytale he never had growing up. Meanwhile, Vanessa wrestles with her own princes, witches, and dragons.
Along the way we get a little help from Professor of Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, Maria Tatar, and receive our first writing assignment from our own fairy godmother, #1 New York Times best-selling author of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn.
Follow along on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, and send us your romance advice questions for future episodes to hotandbotheredrompod@gmail.com.
Next week: Love advice and a conversation with award-winning romance novelist, Alyssa Cole.
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| 0:00.0 | Spoke Media. Not sorry, Productions. |
| 0:07.0 | The core of the stigma in the most obvious way is that a lot of romance novels include sex. |
| 0:19.2 | And then you can just go deeper and say, well, these are books aimed at women. |
| 0:24.2 | So of course, the patriarchy and the patriarchal |
| 0:28.4 | literary world and broader world look down on them |
| 0:32.1 | because if it's a women's genre it can't be |
| 0:35.4 | serious it can't be legitimate it can't be as good. |
| 0:39.4 | That was Jamie Green the newly hired romance columnist for the New York Times review of books. |
| 0:47.0 | The patriarchy doesn't just want to pay you less to do more work. |
| 0:51.0 | The patriarchy doesn't just want to shame you for your body and then try to |
| 0:54.6 | control it. The patriarchy also wants to make your pleasure and your desires seem |
| 1:00.8 | dumb. It wants to ruin romance novels for you. And yet, despite their best efforts, |
| 1:09.6 | romance novels are the single strongest force in the publishing industry. |
| 1:15.0 | They bring in over 1.4 billion dollars a year. |
| 1:20.0 | They take up the largest percentage of readers and sales of any genre in the fiction category. |
| 1:26.4 | They subsidize quote-unquote literary fiction. |
| 1:30.6 | They live on the New York Times bestseller list and yet because of the |
| 1:35.7 | patriarchy we think of them as silly women's things. This podcast is about |
| 1:41.7 | taking romance novels seriously. |
| 1:45.0 | They are read voraciously by women in prison, women in nursing homes, |
| 1:50.0 | doctors on their lunch breaks, by queer women, women of color, Republicans, and white |
| 1:55.3 | coastal liberals. They are written by women, for women, and about women. And about |
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