S02.2 The Alpha in Romance Novels - Interstitial

Fated Mates - A Romance Novel Podcast

Fated Mates

Society & Culture, Documentary, Books, Arts

4.9 • 889 Ratings

🗓️ 18 September 2019

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

As we lead into Season Two, and consider the fact that some of our faves are definitely going to be problematic, we’re talking about the alpha hero this week — we’re also tackling the beta hero and the cinnamon roll, and why these archetypes largely don’t work for us. We’re talking romance heroes who changed the game for us and the genre, about how hard it is to turn the alphahole around, and how satisfying it is to watch it happen. We’re also talking the female gaze (of course) and the patriarchy (like always).

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0:00.0	Um, interstitial 2.1, is that what we call them? I don't understand.
0:05.7	We're not doing point anything anymore. No, we're not using points anymore. That's what
0:09.8	that we promised our producer that we would never label anything point anything but like isn't
0:15.8	this it's like season it's like 201 I don't know there's like a TV numbering system we're not going to use it, but a season 2
0:24.8	interstitial one is what it is. Yeah. We're not no more point five episodes you
0:30.4	guys. You're gonna have to pay attention to the titles now. I mean do as we say
0:36.9	not as we too. I mean obviously you should just listen to everything and not even
0:41.2	worry about it that would be the ideal thing for all of us.
0:44.3	So welcome to Fated mates everyone. We are going to be talking this week.
0:53.0	Well, are we rage interstitialing, Sarah?
0:55.0	That's what I need to know.
0:57.0	I think we are.
0:59.0	I'm pretty ragey about this.
1:01.0	And I want to have a talk. I know. Okay. It's not maybe maybe
1:05.9	rage is too strong a word. No we're unpacking. Yeah I want to so part of my joy, you guys, here's where I'm at.
1:16.0	Yesterday I was walking in the park in Brooklyn with my dog and my kid,
1:21.0	and I had this moment where I had a thought that I didn't love about romance and I wanted to
1:28.6	unpack it and so I texted Jen this thought and she immediately called me.
1:35.0	And it was a Saturday morning at like 1030.
1:39.0	And she was like, I can't, it's too much to text,
1:42.0	but these are my thoughts. and we had a whole conversation
1:46.6	about patriarchy versus white supremacy versus anti-Semitism in romance and it was like 10 30 in the morning on a Saturday in my life and I realize like this is all I want out of life is like
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