See, I want to believe that it's about the publishers etc. underestimating readers...but then I see the same crap in reviews, and I just get discouraged. I am sorry I am so FREAKISH and IMPOSSIBLE TO IDENTIFY WITH. And, IDK, maybe I could be a person worth knowing even if you don't "identify" with me?
Apparently I take book representation overly personally or something.
(I don't generally "identify" with those straight male characters, but I don't generally identify with characters--and when I do, it's usually about personality, not identity. But apparently readers like me are unicorns.)
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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Apparently I take book representation overly personally or something.
(I don't generally "identify" with those straight male characters, but I don't generally identify with characters--and when I do, it's usually about personality, not identity. But apparently readers like me are unicorns.)
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.
THIS.