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Originally Posted by meeera
As for "repressed minorities of the day" and wranglings about representation: to me it's pretty simple. Humans consist of a huge variety of different people. Straight nondisabled white cis men are a pretty small minority of our planet's population, so when they make up a majority of fictional heroes, I get bored and turn off. A fiction of ideas and what-ifs is uninteresting to me when it's stuck in one particularly dull version of the past, ignoring the majority of the population almost completely. Unimaginative and backwards-looking is not what I'm looking for in F/SF.
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This is where you lose me, I'm afraid. I find it incomprehensible that you can be "bored" and "turn off" a book because it happens to have a "hero" who is straight etc. What I want is a great read, irrespective of the hero or protagonist or any other characters. You can miss out on a lot of good reading if you exclude this class of books from those you read, just as those who confine their reading to this class of books miss out.