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Author tosses in disparaging LGBTQ remark for no reason
I was in the 5th chapter, hoping the slow start would soon improve, when I read this:
“ ‘Give him a bollocking but don’t ask him to spell it. Or it might be a she. Or an it. ‘ Then he says, darkly, ‘Or a they.’”
That last word was in italics. The other characters react with just a bit of banter about political correctness. This exchange had nothing to do with the story. It seems to be just tossed in to make it look current. My adult kid is transgender. This use of transgender and gender nonconforming people is reducing them to the role of curiosities to be bandied about for novelty’s sake. The author could do better.
