On 5/13/2021 at 4:52 PM, AviendhaDeservedBetter said:
Hi everyone! I know I am a bit late to the discourse, but I feel that this needs to be said.
As a person who is both transgender and gay, I have grown up seeing only cisgender, heterosexual people (most of them white) represented in any media I have consumed. Especially in the fantasy genre. Robert Jordan is one of the better authors in this regard, but all of his representation is riddled with homophobia and his own prejudice. At several points in the book, I had to do constant mental gymnastics to feel comfortable enough to keep reading. The story and worldbuilding were great, but any LGBTQ+ rep was done very poorly.
As much as it might make some people uncomfortable, I think this is important. There's a reason why people want these things represented in the first place. When people are uncomfortable with that, I fear it's most often because they are in a world that is catered to them so much that they wouldn't even imagine somebody could feel like that, because it simply doesn't occur to them as a possibility.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I expected about the response in the comments that there was, but I think people grumbling need to consider things like this. This matters.
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As much as it might make some people uncomfortable, I think this is important. There's a reason why people want these things represented in the first place. When people are uncomfortable with that, I fear it's most often because they are in a world that is catered to them so much that they wouldn't even imagine somebody could feel like that, because it simply doesn't occur to them as a possibility.
Thank you for sharing your perspective. I expected about the response in the comments that there was, but I think people grumbling need to consider things like this. This matters.