romance in fanfic was Re: Lack of human affection in books

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No: HPFGUIDX 12631

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Jim Flanagan" <jamesf at a...> wrote:
> 
> Digressing slightly from the topic at hand:  IMHO, a lot of fanfic 
> has gone entirely overboard with emotional displays. Some of the, 
> ahem, "less gifted" authors write some extremely unconvincing 
> romantic scenes, particularly with respect to the male half of the 
> interaction. I don't just mean from the viewpoint of beer-swilling, 
> sexist louts, but even as viewed by reasonably sensitive guys like 
> myself <g>. (end of digression)
>
	Considering the extreme youth of some of the ffnet authors, I find 
the lack of versimilitude reassuring, and rather amusing as well.   You 
also might consider it a response to the extremely unrealistic 
encounters, particularly with respect to the female half of the 
interaction, portrayed in commercial fiction written expressly to 
appeal to that hypothetical beer-swilling lout and even that reasonably 
sensitive guy. 

Pippin
who thinks that Jim sounds like a reasonably sensitive guy