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Originally Posted by meeera

Nope. Bye.

While I don't believe that is terribly likely to be true, you do realize that re: the points made further along... you kind of walked right into that?

And for the record, I don't believe @Doonge seriously believed it either.


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I don't believe I have seen a particular dominance of male characters over female characters.

Disabled characters require a specific kind of story which likewise I see often enough -- granted that the majority of stories simply wouldn't be as interesting, if authors randomly disabled characters in a forced manner in order to hit the reader over the head with the diversity hammer (thanks @ST-One).
And that is *my* turn-off.

As for gay and trans people... I don't know that trans people are a sufficient presence in the general populace that they should be a significant presence in literature as well?
Neither are wholly particularly relevant except insomuch as it relates to the plot, i.e. romance -- and that's usually either another genre or else a minor (sometimes very minor) subplot.
Maybe you should campaign to have the authors publicly despised, similar to Marion Zimmer Bradley, but I fail to see why that should mar your enjoying the story, any more than I (fail to) understand why people want to retroactively unenjoy Bradley's works.



Of your four criteria for demanding that readers be hit over the head with the diversity hammer, three are IMHO absolutely ridiculous.
And I still don't care, since I value a good story far more than the diversity therein.