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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Not about the non-binary character, but about the fact that the author felt the need to put a warning in place for it. Bloody transphobes.  |
More like someone who is so afraid of being offensive to somebody, they end up being more offensive.
I've read books where the main characters were LGBTQIA2S+ (if that acronym gets any longer, it's going to need a acronym
). Some of the books were good, some were bad with the majority being so-so.
Many of the bad ones made their protagonists' sexuality, the central theme of the story. I prefer approaches such as Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar series where, for the most part, non-binary wasn’t a big deal.
It just was. Yes, she had some homophobia in her stories but for the most part, it was a minor secondary element. "I don't hate you because you are homosexual, I hate you because you are an <expletive deleted> who has broken your word far more often than you have kept it."
Admittedly, I also dislike most of my XYL's "porn for mommies" books for the authors' apparent belief that if sex sells, more sex described in excruciating detail sells better.