My mum started reading all these romance novels, and books such as Jane Eyre and ever since, whenever someone around her says something against women (like as a joke) she snaps at them, when she didnt before!
I think romance novels cause women to become all pro-female.
2007-11-09 05:15:59 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
I have read Jane Eyre myself, not for the enjoyment though! And yes this theory is hastily shoved together but i just wanted to see some views, dont be so overly critical about things which dont matter! (to some of you)
2007-11-09 08:15:22 · update #1
I wish that people would actually READ questions.
2007-11-09 19:11:13 · update #2
Maybe your mom is realizing that she is being used or something like that. I've read those types of books, and have not become a feminist. I think that it all depends on what you truly believe in from the beginning. Someone said above that Disney movies and romance novels give girls and women a false sense of what a relationship and romance is about. Honestly, real life is rarely like what we see and read, and wish for.
2007-11-09 05:29:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
1. Jane Eyre is not a "romance novel" as we think of such things today. It is a literary classic. And your example makes it unclear which reading material you suppose has had this effect.
2. Your mother is a terribly small sample on which to even START speculating about something that could become the basis of a "theory". It rather amounts to a hastily formed prejudice.
3. Why don't you ask your mom whether reading such things has influenced her attitudes or whether it's something else entirely.? I am sure there's more going on in her life than what she reads.
2007-11-09 13:25:13 · answer #2 · answered by Gnu Diddy! 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Heaven forbid a woman doesn't put up with people saying negative things against her! Take those cursed books away from her at once! Before you know it, she may be telling you to make your own lunch, and do your own laundry.
What's next? What is this world coming to?
Because you know that women can't possibly come up with their own ideas. They have to be planted there by someone else, such as Jane Eyre.
Btw, for all those who couldn't tell, this was all said VERY sarcasticly. As well, I hope this post was a joke to start with.
EDIT: wow people, Jane Eyre is not some trashy romance novel with Fabio on the cover. It is classic literature. It is amazing how few well read people are left in this world.
2007-11-09 13:24:33 · answer #3 · answered by pdx_girl 4 · 7⤊ 2⤋
Jane Eyre is actually a rather feminist novel. It's about a woman moving up the social ladder, but on her own terms and using her own knowledge and education to get her there. She eventually marries a rich man, but only after he needs her more than she needs him.
I do think you're part-way right though, literature with feminist undertones and strong female roles may cause women to as you say "become all pro-female."
Perhaps you should stop making sexist jokes in front of your mother. It isn't polite.
2007-11-09 14:27:12 · answer #4 · answered by Lisa 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
My daughter had to read "Jane Eyre" in her British literature class and she hated it. This is someone who is otherwise a voracious reader. She read the last "Harry Potter" book in less than two days. She just couldn't get into "Jane Eyre" or anything else by the Bronte sisters. She even went as far as to buy a Cliffs Notes version of "Wuthering Heights", which is a highly unusual step for her. She normally prefers reading the books themselves.
2007-11-09 13:24:22 · answer #5 · answered by RoVale 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jane Eyre may be a romance novel, but it also challenges long-held stereotypes of women. That's probably what set her off. A Harlequin romance won't do anything for your worldview, except make you realize that there are people out there who have actually written this crap.
EDIT TO MIZZ CARRIE: Oooh, wasn't that a line from The Earl's Unwilling Virgin Mistress?
2007-11-09 13:23:30 · answer #6 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Jane Eyre is not a "romance novel." It is a classic work of literature.
"Romance novels" are the ones with the Fabio-esque man on the cover ripping the bodice off of the supplicant, supine, (and often Titian haired) woman.
One is complete crap, the other is a valuable piece of the English literary canon.
Do YOU know which is which?
2007-11-09 17:41:46 · answer #7 · answered by wendy g 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I've read them. It's a nice way to make illusions only to be shattered by the facts of relationship-reality. Do I get snappy? NO WAY. I'm all pro-individualism...I can kick anyone's ass at any given time for any given reason whether I were a man, woman, child or crippled. And thats just all there is to it and never take my freedom for granted. being a woman has nothing to do with it and I dont defend females either.
2007-11-09 13:30:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
hmmmmmmmmmmm I think in my entire life i have read only two ( what I would class ROMANCE books ..) One crappy Mills and Boons and "the Bridges of Madison County.....
I have read Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice (BOTH WRITTEN BY WOMEN incidently) .. and I DON'T even really view them as romance novells......
Maybe she is just tired of people taking her for granted.
From my understanding of soppy romance books ( ah there may be the difference in definitions) ... a lot of them would make the women become submissive YES DEAR people..
2007-11-11 00:08:26 · answer #9 · answered by ll_jenny_ll here AND I'M BAC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romance novels cause women to become Pro-Female?
Did you even think about that before you wrote it?
We are female, why would we not be for females?
I would get testy too, if people were always dogging women around me.
How would you like it if she said "All Men Are Pigs" all of the time? It wouldn't be nice, or true would it?
2007-11-09 13:25:22 · answer #10 · answered by It's Just Me 4 · 5⤊ 1⤋