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Originally Posted by hildea
Since all of society pushes straightness as the norm, we wouldn't notice it if a book did the same. I'm absolutely sure that you could write two versions of a book, identical except some minor characters were gay in one version and straight in the other, and some readers would complain that "sexual orientation was being rammed down their throat" in the first version, but noone would think about it in the second version.
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And I'm absolutely sure that, in this day and age, no one would give a damn. And frankly, my dear, neither would I, nor do I.
I am gay, and as such have
"held on to quite a few 'fallacies' in my life" (to quote Stephen Fry), and I don't see the issue with 'straightness' being seen as the norm; it IS the norm and it will never be not the norm.