This is one of the reasons why I find it exhausting going over to the off topic side.
The idea that showing two fictional characters going from friendship to romance is pandering to something and should be avoided. This is the basis for some part of at least 70% of Western culture, the only difference being it’s a girl and guy story arc usually.
Han and Leia start of all sparky and too not into each other to be a coincidence and then they come to admire each other and then they fall in love and get married and have babies who kill them.
That’s life right?
But some books compiled from various sources over thousands of years have a couple of passages saying that an invisible being that created everything doesn’t like something enough that stoning to death is permissible and this means we have to treat people differently in the 21st century and somehow it’s controversial to say that this is questionable??? Even in a fictional setting???
If I question this it’s oh…here we go again…gay man talking about gay things which is why David’s post up the page is so welcome. But I’ve not done the thing (the naughty stone the abomination thing) in the book people get so upset about for a couple of years because I’m in a monogamous relationship.
I don’t live my life watching gay movies or gay television shows or reading gay novels about gay people doing gay things to gay music.
My barber is married to a woman, my boss has a daughter which he contributed making by being very intimate with a woman. Most of the people I know are not gay but I am and a few other people I know are.
There are people I am very friendly with I have no idea what they prefer sexually or romantically. I would not be shocked if I found out they preferred people with red hair or green eyes.
If a fictional man said he preferred people with red hair or green eyes I would be just as not shocked.
Is that pandering to the ginger agenda or the green eyed agenda? Both sets of people historically considered evil BTW.