But this is not new. True Love Conquers All is the oldest trope in the universe and it will never be any less prevalent in the way we look at romance.
This is true; but we can hope, you know? I'd really love to get some variations in the kind of love stories we are told, and I think that - especially when looking at non-romance novels, I can think of a lot more examples of romances that talk about different types of love than just True Love Conquers all.
Today's young adults are very different animals than the young adults of ten years ago. I know, I was one. Buffy was the same age as me and I grew up watching it. I grew up during the third wave of feminism. Girls today are living in tail-end of the backlash, and everything they are taught to want out of life is affected by that. Basically, television is only a small part of the problem.
That is unfortunately very, very true. It's very sad, because I'm looking to the same media sources I did as a teenager to find entertainment, and the field is often dominated by narratives that REALLY do not appeal.
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This is true; but we can hope, you know? I'd really love to get some variations in the kind of love stories we are told, and I think that - especially when looking at non-romance novels, I can think of a lot more examples of romances that talk about different types of love than just True Love Conquers all.
Today's young adults are very different animals than the young adults of ten years ago. I know, I was one. Buffy was the same age as me and I grew up watching it. I grew up during the third wave of feminism. Girls today are living in tail-end of the backlash, and everything they are taught to want out of life is affected by that. Basically, television is only a small part of the problem.
That is unfortunately very, very true. It's very sad, because I'm looking to the same media sources I did as a teenager to find entertainment, and the field is often dominated by narratives that REALLY do not appeal.