In 'Romantic Comedy,' Curtis Sittenfeld flips the gendered tropes
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The Danny Horst Rule
The main character Sally writes this sketch kind of saying, this doesn't seem to happen when the genders are switched. It doesn't happen that an essentially ordinary woman, no matter how clever she is on the page, dates a smoking hot male celebrity. She has to kind of grapple with her own low self-esteem when this swoonily handsome charming man starts to indicate that in fact, he is into her.
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