Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

romantic”—a curious word meaning all things to all people. From my point of view, it means that in his emotional relationships he should not be too bright—something, perhaps, that I should not state so baldly. But again and again the action of the costume [romance] novel’s plot is carried forward by our hero’s failure to realize that in any man’s life there are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of women who will do just as well; that he won’t die if he doesn’t win fair Susan’s dainty hand; and that very probably he will catch a most uninteresting variety of hell if he does win it. Which, come to think of it, is not unrealistic: emotional maturity is one of the rarest qualities in life.