The other way around, if I recall correctly: she said she hadn't read much about lesbians because she isn't one, I said "we read about straight people," and she then went on to say what she did about positive portrayals of female sexuality.
What she said wasn't horrible, just startling and annoying that I was--here, now, in that context--again being defined as the other, and reminded how many people won't read about people unlike themselves, for certain values of "unlike".
I had a good conversation about this with livredor yesterday, and it's interesting what does and doesn't count as "other": straight white teenagers who see a gay or black superhero as "other" but don't see superheroes per se as "other" in the same way, for example.
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Date: 2007-06-04 11:47 am (UTC)What she said wasn't horrible, just startling and annoying that I was--here, now, in that context--again being defined as the other, and reminded how many people won't read about people unlike themselves, for certain values of "unlike".
I had a good conversation about this with