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It's Friday I'm Reading Smut on the Train: Romantasy, Female Rage & the Broadsheet Pearl-Clutching
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It's Friday I'm Reading Smut on the Train: Romantasy, Female Rage & the Broadsheet Pearl-Clutching
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This week we ask why new research has named UK women the angriest, saddest and most worried in Europe, and whether medical misogyny, the pay gap and invisible labour might have something to do with it. Then we get into romantasy and the moral panic over Bad Girl Books, Britain's first romantasy bookshop. Why is fantasy treated as high art when men write it and trash when women do? Expect dragons, smut, the 250-year panic about women reading, and the question of whether everything really has to be Proust.
Topics covered: female rage, women's anger, medical misogyny, NHS waiting lists, gender pay gap, invisible labour, romantasy, Sarah J Maas, Rebecca Yarros, Fourth Wing, Bad Girl Books, BookTok, moral panic, midlife women