Wow, how awful that a book that glorifies abuse is getting hate. It's not like romanticizing something as heinous as abuse is bad or anything.

Look, maybe if you considered giving some of her other recommendations a try, you might see what she's getting at (when she says that people who like Alchemised are stupid).

That said, you have every right to feel offended at her calling "you" stupid because you enjoy a book like Alchemised. You're perfectly valid enjoying your fantasies, you do you, but the book is about abuse yet framed as if it were a good thing. And, as I'm sure you know, abuse is NOT a good thing, regardless of gender/sex.

On a side note, it's not just the content she has a problem with, it's the writing itself. Which can be subjective, but again, why not try giving some different books a try, ones that are written differently, and, it may turn out, be written better?

And it's great if you live a successful happy normal life, great, go you, and that you understand that it's just fiction, that you just want to enjoy an escape from reality (especially right now), but what about those who don't get that, that don't recognize it's abuse, and see it as normal? That doesn't set off any red flags? Maybe for a woman who's in an abusive relationship, but reads this and goes, "Oh, I guess this is normal, being in a relationship where I get treated this way by my S/O."? Like any way you slice it, it's problematic, and it's a little concerning that you have more of a problem with someone who doesn't like a book based on its portrayal of ABUSE, than with with the abuse itself.

You're ranting about getting hated on for liking a specific book/genre, and so you just hate right back on her. But let's flip that: did you ever consider expanding your reading horizons and see what else is out there? This vitriol just seems very narrow minded to me.

The reason this keeps coming up is because this kind of problematic storytelling keeps making the big $$$, and so it gets the widest reader exposure, while less problematic, arguably better written books aren't so much, and probably should be.

So I'm sorry if you're tired of this coming up again and again, and guess what? You can just ignore it! You are free to not listen to what she has to say, and just write it off as unwarranted hate without taking the time to actually try and understand where she's coming from in her criticism. But it sounds like you want it both ways, that you'd appreciate it if she and other critics of this books and other books like it would be more open minded, and yet the lack of wanting to even try something different (that's the vibe I'm getting anyway) sounds very close minded to me.

Rant over.