I’ll go first. Mine is female authors constantly rewriting American Psycho/Lolita from female perspectives or basically recapitulating Gillian Flynn’s books, while their protagonists are not as dynamic or interesting as Patrick Bateman, Humbert, or Amy Dunne. Basically BookTok’s genre of “female manipulator” books.
Prominent examples are Tampa, Boy Parts, Bunny, every Ottessa Moshfegh novel, Animal, A Certain Hunger, Death of a Bookseller, Maeve Fly, etc. We get it. Your female protagonist is a serial killer, rapist, pedophile, or some other type of disaffected psychopathic narcissist going against the grain of males being the psychos. It’s not “transgressive” after it’s been done a million times.
by disorientating