Cats and breath

[lliira]

So I'm reading a couple Save the Pearls rippages and I'm seeing some commonalities between it and certain other terrible books, namely those of Stephenie Meyer and the Anita Blake novels of Laurell K. Hamilton.  I shall express them in question form.

1) Why are men in these crappy novels either actual big cats or compared to big cats, and why is this always supposed to be arousing?

2) What's with breath being a turn-on?

3) What's with the turned-on female main characters being completely out of control when they're turned on? A cat-like man twitches a muscle, or breathes, or exists anywhere near these girls and/or women, and all blood flow to the girls and/or women's brains completely stops. 

4) No, seriously. It's great to show that women have sexual feelings. It's not great to show that when women have sexual feelings, we supposedly become puddles of nothing but lust.  

5) What's with all these crappy novels having girls and/or women confusing lust with love in a totally transparent way? We're supposed to believe that solely because these guys turn them on, these women are actually in love with these guys, and identify with these girls because of this.  

6) All these novels are racist, by the way. 

7) Also all these novels are rape-cheerleading.

8) Do Stephenie Meyer and the Save the Pearls author both read a lot of Laurell K. Hamilton, or is this coming from some other common ground? 

Comments

[lliira]

They definitely have no idea what they're doing. What's weird to me is that three separate incompetencies could all have exactly the same really weird quirks. I feel like there must be some part of society that I'm unaware of for all these women to think breath is a turn-on, and to write like a woman who's aroused has no control over anything and can't think of anything but her arousal. At least LKH calls it arousal in so many words, unlike the other two.