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gair

09:38 am

Sometimes I wish I could be gentle and beautiful and not be called a queer.

YEAH AND SO DO QUEERS.

(Sorry. The thing that's making me fume slightly over at Seven Impossible Things is all this Isn't it great that this character is [feminine but] NOT GAY! Isn't it awful that he's the target of homophobic bullying when he's NOT GAY!, and all I can hear is that he's only worthy of reading about because he's NOT GAY. Because we're all so, so bored with all these millions of gay characters in YA fiction, right? Sorry. I should go and rant at Seven Impossible Things, not you!)

This sounds to me like I will have the reaction I often have to texts and films that people call 'complex', ie that I will just go 'IT'S NOT COMPLEX, IT'S MUDDLED' (cf, of course and always, Harry Potter). Like, it stirs up lots of issues and then dodges out of coming to a conclusion about any of them and then turns that into a virtue by saying it's 'about the grey areas'.