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Originally Posted by Worldwalker
You've got a point. That's a real problem. I've never read a book, not one single one, that has had ME in it! All those characters are ... someone else.
I'm not in a book! I don't exist!
Seriously, consider two characters:
One doesn't have much of your personality, but is the same gender.
One has a personality very close to yours, but is the opposite gender.
Which one do you see yourself in? Apparently, most people would go for the chromosomes, not the personality. I'm the opposite. I don't care if someone who's like me is a man, a woman, or a tentacled alien from Alpha Centauri. Not to mention, of course, that I read and enjoy books where nobody is a whole lot like me. I'm looking for a good story; if I want a reflection of myself, that's what mirrors are for.
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Now you are just being difficult for the sake of. You know that I wasn't saying that I "personally" wasn't being represented in books.
Women make up half of the population, but someone writes a book about life in the future with a huge space station that is populated & only about 2 women show up & neither is of any importance or has anything meaningful to do. Yeah that's really realistic. NOT!
If this is what the future is going to look like I'm glad I won't be around to see it!