purplenails by deathphobiaDear Author has an interesting post today about idealism vs realism.

Now I am the first person to raise my hand and say I am a cynical lil bitch but I question how short Bob Meyer’s seems to sell men. Jane says:

Bob Mayer, the male half of the writing team of Crusie and Mayer, wrote in an interview with All About Romance about the difference between a male writing and a female writing male characters. In Don’t Look Down, the hero, JT, is faced with a naked starlett and does, according to Mayer, what any unattached male would do, and has sex with her. Mayer writes that a female author would have had JT walk away from the starlett but that JT, as Mayer has written him, represents the true male POV.

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Really? Don’t get me wrong I agree some men are whores and will fuck anything that stays still long enough and says ok. Some don’t need the ok, but really no need to get into Anna Campbells book right now *g*.

But most boys do grow up and become men or it turns green and falls off. ::poof problems solved:: I find it funny such a degrading thing is being said by a guy. Is that to be all macho and cool in front of the lil women romance readers? Or is it just a bad interview?

I mean really from the tone of it I wonder why in the world he is even writing a book that has women as the main audience. I didn’t take realism away from Bob’s thoughts on ‘real’ men. I took away the male fantasy of what a man’s man is, was that just me?