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Was listening to this podcast today and it checks all the boxes of what modern women consider "romance", i.e. getting P&D'd by random chads, while themselves being chubby nothings that their string of chads don't care about.

Introducing our Mary Sue female character:

Marianne is a social pariah: She's really smart, lightly contemptuous and weird — a judgment bestowed on her by the cultural gatekeepers at her high school because "she wears ugly thick-soled flat shoes and doesn't put make-up on her face."

We all know this girl. In the real world she's also fat. All the rest is bullshit. If she could lose weight she would fix her wardrobe and makeup in a day, then have a chad for a real boyfriend. But she can't so she's playing the faux intellectual "quirky" girl.

Here's our male character, aka chad:

Connell, a football player, is also very smart, but he knows enough to turn the dimmer switch down on his intelligence, so he's popular.

That's all I need to know. He's way out of her league physically. That makes him popular. It also defines their relationship forever.

Oh noes! He invited somebody else to prom!

For instance, at the end of high school, when an anxious Connell, in a moment of cowardice, asks another girl to the formal dance (even though he and Marianne have been secretly sleeping together for a long time) we're treated to this self-lacerating assessment by Marianne:

[Connell] didn't do anything that bad. He had never tried to delude her into thinking she was socially acceptable; she'd deluded herself. He had just been using her as a kind of private experiment, and her willingness to be used had probably shocked him. ... In a way she feels sorry for him now, because he has to live with the fact that he had sex with her, of his own free choice, and he liked it. That says more about him, the supposedly ordinary and healthy person, than it does about her.

LOL you're his plate dumbass. What did you expect? Some guy out of your league is going to make you his real girlfriend? Maybe propose marriage if you keep fucking him long enough?

So there you go guys. Women randomly hooking up with guys who are out of their league is so normalized they are starting to write romance novels about it. But it's such a stretch, like a guy writing about a 9/10 escort who becomes so impressed with his awesome dick she stops charging him and falls in love with him. Sad!