He posted on ImPhoto a long tirade saying fantasy fiction was being dumbed down by fantasy romance—which is generally but not exclusively written and read by women—saying the overly sentimental tone is distinctive, and he can always tell when something has been written by a romance writer because it lacks intellectual depth. He said that people—although he clearly meant women—should read widely and across genres, and the dominance of romance in the bestseller charts was symptomatic of intellectual decay and the cause of simplistic thinking.”
