One of my latest pieces (originally published on Mirakee).
Blank – a poem
…because men in books are better
…because men in books are better
One of my latest pieces (originally published on Mirakee).
I swoon over fictional men... 
Nice poem Sproggy.
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Thank you! š
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This is really good!
Kind of on the similar topic, and sorry if this leaves a bit of a bitter digital footprint here (because your poem truly is lovely) I came across this link on Goodreads a week or so ago. It was about the best covers in the romance/erotica genreā¦ so all those covers with half-naked men, glistening abs and muscles and blablaā¦ and then I read the comments underneath and was a bit taken abackā¦ the ladies were dealing out the comments towards these covers that would start a proper war if the roles were reversedā¦ āIf the lad on cover A didnāt have such hair, would like it moreā or āif his abs were more defined, I would LOVE to *xyz*āā¦ I just shook my head and thought- and there you are, crying out on twitter if a man has asked you to smile because āhow dare he, he doesnāt know how Iām feelingāā¦ I think it this kind of ādouble standardā/objectifying behaviour undermines what some women are truly trying to do for a good cause and unless everyone is pulling in the same direction, it can hardly come to a solution?
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Some people really do have double standards and it reminds me of something Drew said a while back, that if it was reversed and it was a naked woman on the front there’d be an uproar.
It disgusts me that women can objectify men like that and while I do poke fun at romance covers and enjoy reading the genre, I would never dream of objectifying the cover models in that way. Truth be told, I don’t really understand why romance novels need covers like that. Half the time the content of the book is completely unrelated anyway!
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I hear you! And Drew said it, as wellā¦ butā¦ it is what it is, itās like one of those neverending battles within society. And itāll be neverending because weāre human and weāre all barking from our own mountain tops š
I agree on the covers being unrelatedā¦ sometimes, i think I may actually miss out on a great romance book because the cover is so incredibly cheesy/shallowā¦ Based on the cover I would never have looked into the Lords of the Underworld series at all, but the book itself was holy wow!!! š
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I donāt really have anything to add to this conversation, other than a thank you to both of you for being great people.
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You ladies are wonderful human beings and this poem and all above are very well said ā¤
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