Comments on: We Thought We Put A Stop To This https://booksquare.com/we-thought-we-put-a-stop-to-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=we-thought-we-put-a-stop-to-this Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:10:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/we-thought-we-put-a-stop-to-this/#comment-26898 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 22:10:07 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/02/02/972/#comment-26898 Oh my. Oh my. That’s just awful. I was ready to ban the term based on connotation…hitting the dictionary makes it so much worse. Truly, the madness must stop.

]]> By: Karen https://booksquare.com/we-thought-we-put-a-stop-to-this/#comment-26839 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 18:59:44 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/02/02/972/#comment-26839 Matron lit is about as offensive as it gets. Not to mention weirdly inaccurate — especially if it’s intended to appeal to a certain demographic. The online Webster’s defines “matron” as — 1a : a married woman usually marked by dignified maturity or social distinction b : a woman who supervises women or children (as in a school or police station) c : the chief officer in a women’s organization
2 : a female animal kept for breeding

That last one is especially charming, eh?

]]> By: booksquare https://booksquare.com/we-thought-we-put-a-stop-to-this/#comment-26748 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 16:45:13 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/02/02/972/#comment-26748 I agree. Who are these cute names for, anyway? Do you think the consumer is going to walk into a bookstore and ask for the hen lit section? Yeah, and then she’ll follow along as a teenage boy escorts her to books on poultry.

The madness must stop. They are books. They tell stories.

]]> By: Brenda Coulter https://booksquare.com/we-thought-we-put-a-stop-to-this/#comment-26593 Thu, 03 Feb 2005 13:17:59 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2005/02/02/972/#comment-26593 Joan Marlow Golan, Executive Editor of Steeple Hill Books, calls it “hen lit”. Which is only marginally better, if you ask me, than “matron lit”.

Ick. Why do we have to call it anything? Can’t it just be fiction?

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