I'm a romance writer, and that's basically the whole industry right now. Frustrated super-woman looks powerful during the day but cries into her ice cream at night. Heroic Chad dude catches her attention... but pursuing him means letting go of what society has told her to pursue. Adventure ensues, worldviews are challenged, flirtiness happens, and boom!
My guess is that a lot of women are seeing through the programming but too insecure to chase it in real life.
Romance movies and books always have involved the woman giving up any chance at a (((career))) to be with the man she loves. Look at twilight where the girl becomes a vampire just to be with Chad (while her injun friend dates her daughter).
I'm a romance writer, and that's basically the whole industry right now. Frustrated super-woman looks powerful during the day but cries into her ice cream at night. Heroic Chad dude catches her attention... but pursuing him means letting go of what society has told her to pursue. Adventure ensues, worldviews are challenged, flirtiness happens, and boom!
My guess is that a lot of women are seeing through the programming but too insecure to chase it in real life.
Romance movies and books always have involved the woman giving up any chance at a (((career))) to be with the man she loves. Look at twilight where the girl becomes a vampire just to be with Chad (while her injun friend dates her daughter).