Apologies in advance for the following culture-babble (and in case I've posted something along these lines before... this is a topic that I keep coming back to in my own head
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Interesting. For whatever reason, I almost always identify with the humans, not the supernaturals, when I read these books (Harry Dresden being the chief exception - not that the Dresden Files are primarily paranormal romance, unless I'm *really* missing something).
I may see things differently because I'm in a somewhat different place in life than many folk. I have the luxury of doing work where my flavors of weird are actually approved of and supported, and I have a solid collection of friends who are just as odd as I am - the result of this being that issues of identity and conformity are on the back burner for me, personally, whereas as a news junkie, I'm constantly exposed to issues of economics, class, and power, and these issues seem to be far-from-solved for me.
Different series, too, may spin this in different ways - my exposure to the paranormal romance genre is limited to the first few Anita Blake novels, so I may well be missing something.
Hrm... perhaps the supernatual actually often works like a mirror - we look at vampires, and we see things in them that resonate with our own lives and concerns...
I may see things differently because I'm in a somewhat different place in life than many folk. I have the luxury of doing work where my flavors of weird are actually approved of and supported, and I have a solid collection of friends who are just as odd as I am - the result of this being that issues of identity and conformity are on the back burner for me, personally, whereas as a news junkie, I'm constantly exposed to issues of economics, class, and power, and these issues seem to be far-from-solved for me.
Different series, too, may spin this in different ways - my exposure to the paranormal romance genre is limited to the first few Anita Blake novels, so I may well be missing something.
Hrm... perhaps the supernatual actually often works like a mirror - we look at vampires, and we see things in them that resonate with our own lives and concerns...
Definitely things to ponder.
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