Episode 140: Margaret Killjoy
Gender Reveal
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How to Get Women Off a Romance Novel
I thought the goal was to make the woman who's reading this book feel beautiful and loved. I fought really hard to make these books as passively feminist as I could. And it's like, I put the bar in a different place than I put for my own writing. But totally. One of the other ones was that like, he needs to be the sort of aggressor and all of the sex. He's actually dating his physical therapist, and which is totally chill. That was actually my favorite sex scenes in the whole thing to write because he's like, he's power-bodened.
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