WTF, if I can read books with straight male protagonists, I should think straight women could read books with queer female protagonists. But I generally hate the idea that characters must be "identifiable" and just like use in order to be "identifiable."
I am beyond tired of this kind of bullshit logic being used by authors, editors, and marketing folks to justify excluding people from books or even the covers of books about them. It's the same thing they say when they put a white face on the cover of a book about a protagonist of color or what not.
I just want to scream the same thing you did, and then point to all the protagonists and characters that are NOT like me (the trans or non-binary ones, the ones of color, the non-U.S.ian ones, etc) that I have loved and adored and fangirled all my damn life.
I'd thank these folks not to justify their own prejudices and fail by assuming that me (and other readers) are so narrow minded and bereft of basic empathy that the mere sight of someone who isn't JUST like us will send us running.
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I am beyond tired of this kind of bullshit logic being used by authors, editors, and marketing folks to justify excluding people from books or even the covers of books about them. It's the same thing they say when they put a white face on the cover of a book about a protagonist of color or what not.
I just want to scream the same thing you did, and then point to all the protagonists and characters that are NOT like me (the trans or non-binary ones, the ones of color, the non-U.S.ian ones, etc) that I have loved and adored and fangirled all my damn life.
I'd thank these folks not to justify their own prejudices and fail by assuming that me (and other readers) are so narrow minded and bereft of basic empathy that the mere sight of someone who isn't JUST like us will send us running.