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Well, I will be 20 in October and i never fell in love in my life! There are hot guys that want to date me, but I refuse because I think that being in a relationship is a waste of time, and I don’t see what do we get by being with someone... I am not an asexual because I love sexe, but when I hook up with a guy and he start getting too clingy I want to run away. I don’t understand why some girls get jealous and complain because their boyfriend don’t give them a lot of attention. I’m popular because I really take care of my self and I love to be considered pretty and attractive, but when it’s come from a guy with romantic attentions i avoid him. As a little girl i remember that I always dreamed of being the sidekick of the Prince Charming and help him saving the princesse instead of being the princesse herself. I love my friends and my family, but I can’t understand what peoples feel when they’re in love. Romantic speech piss me off, but I sometimes read romantic novels just because of a character more than the love story herself. The only reason why I want to get married in the future is because i want to build a family and not ending as a single lady at 40 because in my family it’s viewed as being a shame, and I also want children. Do you think I’m normal or aromantic?

In romances (or stories with romantic plot lines that I’m going to call romances here just to make my life easier) there seems to be a difference in how the leading men are depending on the gender of the author. In romances written by men, the male lead is often portrayed as heroic and saving the woman (often portrayed as a damsel in distress) from danger (ie in “The Three Musketeers” by Dumas). And in romance novels written by women, the leading man is played up as a douche that “changes” in the end (ie “Pride and Prejudice” by Austen). And this is still a thing in modern literature (ie “Twilight” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” by Meyer and James respectively).

Am I the only one who noticed this?

(Also, this is a re-do of another question that I’ve recently asked because I accidentally set the opinions to Girls Only, my bad! 😂)

In romances (or stories with romantic plot lines that I’m going to call romances here just to make my life easier) there seems to be a difference in how the leading men are depending on the gender of the author. In romances written by men, the male lead is often portrayed as heroic and saving the woman (often portrayed as a damsel in distress) from danger (ie in “The Three Musketeers” by Dumas). And in romance novels written by women, the leading man is played up as a douche that “changes” in the end (ie “Pride and Prejudice” by Austen). And this is still a thing in modern literature (ie “Twilight” and “Fifty Shades of Grey” by Meyer and James respectively).

Am I the only one who noticed this?