people love to say they read 1 (one) romance novel that was poorly written therefore all of them are, yet have no problem picking up novels by men that are self-inserts about their messy divorce and the barista they can only have in their imagination.
"romances are so unrealistic. i'd much rather read about the guy whose wife died a horrific death and he had an affair with the detective and one of his students bc he was in such grief and it turns out the wife was cheating and a spy killed her!"
society: i can't believe you're into reading about love. you know that's trash, right? but also... when are you gonna get married and have babies?

me: yikes. what book was it?

me: i see.
dweeb: it's so neat how [that guy] always has Maine in his work and he always makes someone a writer. like, that's his thing.
same dweeb: but why do romances always have the same thing happening over and over? ugh! maybe if they did something else once in a while...
same dweeb: but why do romances always have the same thing happening over and over? ugh! maybe if they did something else once in a while...