[ SECRET POST #2199 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2199 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dragon Age 2]


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[Baby-sitters Club]


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[The Twelve Kingdoms]


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[Dangan Ronpa]


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Comments

Re: queer fiction by non-queer writers

[(Anonymous)]

I'm personally fine with it. I don't think it's automatically any of the things you mentioned, although there is the potential for it to turn into those, depending on how the author approaches the character and the subject matter is handled. Where I think the most issues come up are with either fetishizing of queer sexuality, stereotyping, and misinformation. I think that all of the above are more the result of bad writing and two dimensional characters in general, though, and not necessarily because someone who's not queer is writing about a queer character (although they can be related, they're just not a given simply because an author is not queer). It's more likely that a queer person might have better insight into certain aspect of a queer character's life or some of their possible experiences, but queer characters are like queer people, and being queer is not all that they are (and also all queer people are not a monolith, so those experiences will vary a lot).

I've seen queer writers write pretty flat, two-dimensional, even stereotypical queer characters, so I don't think straight authors have the patent on that. The trick is to create a character as a character who's well-rounded and not defined solely by one aspect of their identity, which is the trap that some authors (straight and queer alike) can fall into. They go in thinking they'll create a QUEER!character, rather than creating a strong character who is queer. When someone is writing about a minority group and they're not part of that minority, they should be respectful and listen to what people from that group have to tell them, but it's kind of silly to try to bar anyone not from a group from creating characters that are part of the group.