Interracial Fiction = Weak Women-Fiction?

Right.

I've made a mistake.

I let myself get swept up in the world that is "online interracial fiction". More specifically "WMBW interracial fiction".

Oh, was it a bad decision so! The stereotypes, the racial "taboos", the realistic-unicornlevel-sex scenes, the stereotypes!

Never again. I have had the great displeasure of fulfilling my quota for this so-called "genre".

I mean there I was, sifting for weeks like I mad woman. Reading story after story, feeling disappointment, after disappointment. Looking for God only knows what. I finally told myself today to stop before I lost any more of my temper...or sanity. Or dignity.

Surely, I can't be the only girl on the earth who doesn't want to play the virginal/helpless damsel waiting to be saved by the perfectly charming trillionare "White Adonis", yes? Someone out there has to be on the same page as me, right??

I think the thing that gets me most were the reviews. Thousands of comments of praise I've seen over these past couple of weeks about these stories. Not one soul to speak a different tone.


It makes me worry a bit about my gender. It makes me want to go on a wild book-hunt on amazon, e-bay, at my library and my local bookstores. It makes me want to arm myself with the words to write love stories that make sense to me. Stories where love is built on trust, time, contentment, intimacy, freedom, respect, and understanding. Certainly not on magic pixie-dust, amazing sex and money.

No. I think I'm much to much of a realist to enjoy any of the stories I have been reading. Far to much, indeed.

;-)

1.

"A painting is more than the sum of its parts."
It's not just about what you are seeing, but also what you are hearing.
What does the picture mean? What is it's creator trying to tell you?

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People are either more or less than the sum of their parts.
I'd like to think that every person has the potential to be more.
Either way, what matters is the person inside the packaging. Everything
else is subject to chance.

What if...

What if our conceptions of people appeared on those people in real life. Buyers in an expensive store would be credit cards with legs. A group of dark clothed young men huddled together would be a gang of monster. A person's child would be a piece of glowing light.

Pretty on the Inside

I don't want to be ugly on the inside.
As painful as it may be, I could bare looking hideous.
So long as my soul would remain beautiful.

What Is Beauty?

"Beauty is from the inside, when you are centered and at peace within, that
beauty has nowhere to go but outward. It flows out glowing and vibrant."

"Beauty is the joy of life.
A collection of happiness and of your story.
Celebrating your life, your traditions.
Where you have been where you are now,
how you've come to be here, and where you are going."

"Beauty is what you want to see, not what others want you to see."
"Sexy is more of an attitude than an appearance."

Flirting (1992)

"I don't think fate is a creature or a lady like some people say. It's a tide of events sweeping us along. But
 I'm not a fatalist, 'cause I can believe you can swim against it, and sometimes grasp the hands of the clock face,
and steal a few precious minutes. If you don't, you're just cartwheeled along, and before you know it the magic
opportunity's lost. And for the rest of you life it'll linger in that part of your mind which, dreams the very
best dreams. Taunting, and tantalizing you with what might've been,"

A Little Advice for Myself

Not everyone is going to like you. There are too many different people in the world
for us all to be friends. And the more you try change and adapt to the needs
of others, the less and the less you will be able to recognize yourself.
The more confused and frustrated you'll become.
So find out who you are, and be proud of it.