In 2024, I discovered my passion for fiction books and already read about 200 books that include fantasies, romances, and thrillers. Moreover, I decided to create my TikTok channel to talk about my love for these books and recommended different books to girls.

Once I posted a picture of a romantic scene from a book that I was reading at that moment. It was such an emotional and beautiful moment between two characters, but there was nothing explicit (and nothing wrong with that), and I got the comment from a man who said: "Women are basically reading porn."

This one comment reflects the attitude of men towards women's reading habits, and I am going to tell why this comment is misogynistic and wrong, and how women reading romances and romantasies are constantly being criticized while the same guys are not getting comments.

Nobody refers to Game of Thrones as "Porn for Men" despite the fact that this series has the same amount of explicit content as books for women.

And the thing that bothers me the most is the following: men refer to romance books as "porn for women," while they themselves consume similar content, and nobody is blaming them