Race-based Romance

Harlequin has teamed up with Nascar for officially-licensed product placement in a series of romance novels thereby combining two of the rival genders’ most inane forms of entertainment. Now the derivative girl meets boy/loses boy/regains boy plotline of genre fiction adds the heart-pounding action of lap 1, lap 2, lap 3 ….

In fairness, my MS-hindered sister gets much pleasure from romance novels and such admirable men as David Letterman and Deacon Lunchbox have thrilled to auto racing but what’s next? Cosmo quizzes in Maxim magazine? Speaker reviews on The Rachel Ray Show? Chuck Palahniuk writing a novel about a dystopian knitting circle? Another 8-month fucking run of Defending the Caveman?!

May a gender-transcending God help us all.