#and overnight it seems suddenly you're a misogynist and fascist if you view writing as an art and not just a product for consumers

[undead-moth]

Honestly there's nothing wrong with chicklit as a genre. There's nothing wrong with romance. Nothing wrong with smut or erotica. Nothing wrong with incorporating common tropes, even "fan fic" tropes. Nothing wrong with reading purely for entertainment. Nothing wrong with books not being literary, or with people not reading literary books -

But what's frustrating is the moment a writer criticizes booktok for the impact it's had on the current market, or tries to discuss the implications of there being so many writers right now who can't write becoming six-times New York Times bestsellers or whatever just because they write chicklit and have a lot of followers on tiktok, or laments the fact that these same writers are being handed a list of tropes from their editors to design a novel around meanwhile other authors who will never be published have stories they've been working on, trying to perfect and dying to share for years or even decades, or wishes literary writers weren't struggling so much to get published despite their stunning work just because so few people appreciate that level of craft -

People assume you're a pearl-clutching puritanical pretentious snob who hates women for wanting to read about sex and love and is probably a fascist who thinks declining literacy is the downfall of the west or whatever anyway.

It's so depressing.