Where do they find these ignorant, illiterate, sexist morons and why is he editorializing about science fiction?

One of the other great-grandfathers of science fiction, after Jules Verne and H. G. Wells was Edgar Rice Burroughs. Every book he wrote was a romance, and I don't mean in the 19th century sense of "story of an exotic place and time". I mean "there's a guy, a girl, and massive obstacles to them getting together, but they do in the end and live happily ever after, or at least until the sequel".

There were romance sub-plots in both of E. E. "Doc" Smith's major series--y'know, that Doc Smith, the father of space opera?

Ignorant of history, and illiterate in the field he is editorializing about. What a useless git!