- Aug 19, 2022
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While i do agree with quite a lot of what you are saying,. I think you err in the depiction of romances in female public books. You can check any YA novel catered to women, and you can see the characters tropes in this female oriented novel. I mean, you can check wattpad which is infested with these novels.There's nothing romantic in Lena's path except Ian and Holly, literally the other main character and a woman. Her presentation is all about kinks and depravity. It is funny how ORS is advertised at the start as a more 'egalitarian' game with a male and female main characters, each with at least 5 romantic options. And yet we see how slanted the depiction of the two MCs are, and in the end Lena is just another character to please male audience, being so objectified. I think this just shows EK's true colors, slowly deviating from their intended purpose and instead letting their fancies and inclinations guide the story. Never in my life have I seen a female author genuinely depict a female love story as that banal or degrading unless making a thematic point on female objectification, and this is especially jarring when comparing to Ian's path, and I don't think EK is doing a societal introspection with this game, it's just a kinky game. This kind of presentation is more common with male authors and 'men writing women'. Sure EK could still be a woman, but since it's all anonymous online and it's all just taking their word for it, so I'll not believe everything they say. But it doesn't matter - I still want Holly to get that BBC from Marcel.
And something more, what's funny about this is that the most cliche and degrading stuff towards women is usually written by other women. It is what it is. I mean... you can see the authors of twilight or 50 shades of grey are guilty of this.
