huh

[marcicat]

I finally got curious enough about the (to me) absolutely bizarre amount of hockey romance novels compared to other sports, and looked it up online. Reddit suggests racism (plausible), along with the popularity of hockey rpf (I didn't understand that either, but it does seem unlikely that they're completely unconnected), and the fact that US americans aren't as familiar with the rules of hockey, so authors don't have to do as much research (that last one makes me laugh, because yeah, I could see that -- I got at least a tiny bit of exposure to most common team sports in gym class, but not hockey).