#HeatedRivalry creator Jacob Tierney on why women love the show:
“Women love these books. These are books written by a woman. These are books largely consumed by women. So I wouldn’t want to speak on behalf of a female audience, but I think that what women are presented in… pic.twitter.com/S61YQisrDb
— Variety (@Variety) December 26, 2025
Excerpts from the above:
* “I wouldn’t want to speak on behalf of a female audience, but I think that what women are presented in romance is not always something that interests them in that way.”
* “From what I’ve heard, from the women who have written to me and Rachel and the boys, there’s a safety in seeing a woman being removed from the conversation. So you’re watching something happen between two men, and there is no fear of violence. There is no fear of things turning into stuff that women have to deal with too much in real life, and don’t want to deal with in their fantasies, and ultimately, this is a romantic fantasy.”
* “I think it’s also that maybe romance — which is a genre that women love and write and read and are the primary consumers of — just doesn’t get treated with a lot of respect.”
ONTD, do you think a solution to sexism/misogyny is to remove women from the conversation?
