You got your girl cooties on my paperback industry!
Ok, look.

You're fantasy fans. Big fantasy fans. All those books you love and read over and over again until they fall apart and think are totally amazing? People look down on you for reading them.

Other readers of genre fiction look down on you. If you have never heard a self-righteous scifi fan who thinks his undergraduate physics degree means he understands everything IMPORTANT about the universe go off on how dumb fantasy is, you're a very lucky person. Because I've heard it. A lot of my fantasy fan friends -- hell, a lot of my friends who are fantasy authors -- have had their reading and even their writing dismissed out of hand because of its genre.

You know how their criticisms are usually based on ignorance of the genre? You know how it makes you mad when a bunch of people who don't know what they're talking about say that all fantasy is THIS or THAT, when there's really so much more to it? You know how a lot of times, if you scratch the surface of their complaints, it seems more and more like the big problem with fantasy is that it has a large female readership?

Why the HELL do you turn around and inflict that genre-wanking bullshit on readers of romance novels?

Whenever you make fun of 'dumb plots' that are apparently endemic to a genre of books you have never even touched, you sound just like that arrogant hard-SF guy.

Right down to the sexism.

So stop it.