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[tiamatschild]

...Why does Amazon think that my ownership of Fanny Burney's Evelina is an indication that I'll like ostensibly BDSM themed bodice rippers that appear, from the blurbs, to be conflating masculinity with dominance and femininity with submission?

Comments

[aldanise]

Wow, yes, so much sympathy. Amazon has no idea what to make of my reading tastes, and part of that is because they conflate satire and social drama with completely un-self-aware bodice-rippers.

[tiamatschild]

Ahahahaha yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeah. There's that too. They keep trying to sell me sugary sweet bodice rippers because of Richardson's Clarissa.

... ... ...Which is what really surprises me here.

[ilthit]

Take out "ostensibly BDSM" and that's all the bodice rippers.

I think they just push that because you ticked the "female" box.

[tiamatschild]

An excellent point. An excellent point.

I'm sure that has something to do with it, but they do show you which book you've bought that ostensibly triggers the sugguestion and some of them make good sense - like I picked up Frederick Jackson Turner's The Frontier in American History and promptly started getting recs for the many many books that have taken off of or taken on Turner's Frontier Hypothesis. ...So. I. Don't really know. Alas, alas Amazon! If only you were trying to sell me Burney's sources and respondents!