#do all straight romances about rags to rishes provide well-thought out explorations of the poverty line and how people are forced under it

[ad1thi]

i dont wanna really get into the rwrb discourse but i keep seeing the book getting slandered here and on twitter so i am going to say: i know that Red White and Royal Blue has sketchy political points and the Alternate Universe that Casey McQuiston created isn't a Utopia and its flawed -- but its really stupid to me that people seem to be fixating on this. the book isn't meant to be a political thinkpiece aimed at changing people's lives and lobbying a grenade into the political sphere. its a romance novel for fuck's sake.

i get if you dont like their style of writing, or if the dialogue and scenes were too corny for you - that's fine and completely acceptable, but slandering the book on the basis of its politics is so ridiculous because its not about politics. its just supposed to be a book about queer romance. they’re not trying to make political points and i honestly think its ridiculously unfair that examining this book under the lens of nuanced political theory is even a valid form of criticism.

queer people are allowed to have fun books centred around queer romance. queer people are allowed to have books that just exist about queer acceptance and queer love. there's no way in hell this amount of scrutiny and critique would be levelled at a straight romance novel, because it is implicitly understood that romance novels are about the romance, not about making political points. the idea that Red White and Royal Blue is a fundamentally flawed book because it didnt spend like 300 pages critically examining the inherent flaws within the American Government and provide a referenced argument against the British Monarchy is laughable, and honestly it's a bad look that people seem to be overly analysing and looking for a political agenda when there is none in this book.

I'm not saying you have to like rwrb, or that everybody must appreciate it simply because of it's queer-ness, but the book is about a queer romance. Judge it on the merits of a romance novel, and its exploration of queer-ness. Nothing more.

#adi reads #rwrb #red white and royal blue #its literally such a joke that so many people are getting so offended about a book that wasn't even trying to make political points #queer people are allowed to have queer romances that aren't perfect!! #you literally would not see this level of critique being levelled at straight romance novels #do all straight romances about billionaires discuss the ethics of exploitation and wealth hoarding and tax evasion that leads to a billion? #do all straight romances set in war times talk about the exploitation of man and machine and the morality of killing and bombing and war?? #do all straight romances about rags to rishes provide well-thought out explorations of the poverty line and how people are forced under it? #its a romance novel!! stop looking for a fucking academic essay on why the Gov is bad and just be happy about two boys being stupid togethe #why is that so hard!! why don't queer people get that?? #why must everything be so perfect and untouched and unproblematic?? why dont we just get a fun romance novel?? #i wanna know