"Oh, you have two female characters? I bet they MIGHT BE GAY HA HA HA but MAYBE THEY AREN’T HA HA HA but I bet they beat up men a lot and also each other MAYBE THEY DO SEX TOO? HA HA HA..."
Yeah, I'm kind of tired of that, too. What ever happened to subtle implication?
I have fought against this by making my female characters heterosexual, and attacking anyone who accused them of being homosexual. Just get that out of the way immediately...
If the writer isn't homosexual, they have no business writing about it. Leave it to the ones who know.
I think the only thing I'd push back on is that last sentence. Anyone can write anything they want. If they get the details wrong, that's on them, we should all do research if we're writing about anything related to the real world. Unless we're writing for Dan Brown's audience and we know they just don't care, but I digress.
I'm very resistant to the idea of putting those kinds of restrictions on anyone. I'd rather the entire world write bad books and me be able to say those books are bad than have anyone go around having to ask permission to write something.
"Oh, you have two female characters? I bet they MIGHT BE GAY HA HA HA but MAYBE THEY AREN’T HA HA HA but I bet they beat up men a lot and also each other MAYBE THEY DO SEX TOO? HA HA HA..."
Yeah, I'm kind of tired of that, too. What ever happened to subtle implication?
I have fought against this by making my female characters heterosexual, and attacking anyone who accused them of being homosexual. Just get that out of the way immediately...
If the writer isn't homosexual, they have no business writing about it. Leave it to the ones who know.
I think the only thing I'd push back on is that last sentence. Anyone can write anything they want. If they get the details wrong, that's on them, we should all do research if we're writing about anything related to the real world. Unless we're writing for Dan Brown's audience and we know they just don't care, but I digress.
I'm very resistant to the idea of putting those kinds of restrictions on anyone. I'd rather the entire world write bad books and me be able to say those books are bad than have anyone go around having to ask permission to write something.