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Again the whole point was familiarity. I enjoy the familiarity.
When a female character interacts with a male character, I know exactly what it's like to be that girl, in that moment, because there's a good chance I've experienced the same situation myself. It adds a good helping of realism to the story when it reminds me of my own life.

Entire stories, successful books and movies and tv-series, have been written with this concept in mind. Audience loves characters that resemble themselves. Honestly I can't believe I need to spell this out to someone.

I guess I just can't identify with that at all. Someone's genitals just don't matter to me that much.

My thought process is more: would I react the same way as this character? And if I don't, can I understand why (given their backstory) they would react in such a way? Are the things that are important to this character also important to me? How does the way character A interacts with character B facilitate their relationship?

The presence or absence of a vagina, on its own, is basically a nonissue to me.

I'm not saying that's good or bad, it's just something that I don't feel is worth considering.

Genitals =/= gender, it's 2014 and you should be well aware of that, and by that notion I've gotten too tired of your argument to tackle it any further.

You said "female" characters, not women.

Sorry -- biologist here, so I tend to think of "female" in terms of genitalia. "Women" though is a different story.

Not sure why you're responding just to tell me that you're tired of my arguments. But okay. Hey ship what you want to ship -- I'm not saying you're a better or worse person for it.

I made the point originally because I wanted to critique the notion that het is inherently better for female characters. Which, in my opinion, isn't true IF the female character is only being used as a self-insert.

But to each their own.

DA

I agree with you 100%.

When a female character interacts with a male character, I know exactly what it's like to be that girl, in that moment, because there's a good chance I've experienced the same situation myself.

I don't get this at all. I have no idea what it's like to be that woman (or girl, I guess), beyond what the narrative is telling me, because women are individuals with different lives and different experiences. I guess I know what it's like to be a woman in general, but that's about it unless the character shares other traits with me.

But then, I don't read fiction looking for relatablity, so maybe that's my problem.

When a female character interacts with a male character, I know exactly what it's like to be that girl, in that moment

This is exactly why I don't enjoy reading het in general, though. The female characters tend not to react or act like me at all, so there's this total cognitive dissonance and I can't get into the story at all. It's actually why I prefer slash.

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