I've done re-reading favourite bits of non-romance novels, though it's not a regular occurence. I don't have a habit of reading romance. I've read quite a bit of the In Death series, which had going for it that there still was a mystery plot when the Alpha guy did creepy stuff like forcing medicine down the throat of the female lead that she did not want.
Alpha males make me uncomfortable, mostly because from what I've read, the only reason they are not plainly abusive stalkers and rapists is that the female leads fall for them, too. I don't like it that every time I've read or seen a guy shut up a woman he's been nothing but arguing with by kissing her, it turns out that that's what she really wanted; it romanticises assault. And it makes no sense to me for people who so far have done nothing but bicker would fall for each other.
ETA: I think I can sum it up. What I don't like is the "Man knows better than Woman what Woman wants, or what is good for Woman" that in my limited reading came packaged with the alpha male trope, because it casts Woman as stupid.
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Date: 2014-08-28 03:45 am (UTC)Alpha males make me uncomfortable, mostly because from what I've read, the only reason they are not plainly abusive stalkers and rapists is that the female leads fall for them, too.
I don't like it that every time I've read or seen a guy shut up a woman he's been nothing but arguing with by kissing her, it turns out that that's what she really wanted; it romanticises assault. And it makes no sense to me for people who so far have done nothing but bicker would fall for each other.
ETA: I think I can sum it up. What I don't like is the "Man knows better than Woman what Woman wants, or what is good for Woman" that in my limited reading came packaged with the alpha male trope, because it casts Woman as stupid.