It didn't even seem to have any particularly challenging philosophical content, really. Unless you count "sometimes, a professor is charasmatic and creepy", which is more a fact of life.
What I DO find interesting is I have not seen a single shred of Queer Representation Discourse about this book. Ten or fifteen years ago, it would have been a point of both academic dispute and social media distress, how much of this book hinged on a predatory gay man.
I think it's a good sign for queer - or at least gay - rights/normalisation/etc that we're only having that Discourse about Gay Media and Gay Representation In Ensemble TV - we've accepted that literary fiction has weird gays in it, regardless of who writes it or their identity. PROGRESS.
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Date: 2024-06-10 02:02 am (UTC)What I DO find interesting is I have not seen a single shred of Queer Representation Discourse about this book. Ten or fifteen years ago, it would have been a point of both academic dispute and social media distress, how much of this book hinged on a predatory gay man.
I think it's a good sign for queer - or at least gay - rights/normalisation/etc that we're only having that Discourse about Gay Media and Gay Representation In Ensemble TV - we've accepted that literary fiction has weird gays in it, regardless of who writes it or their identity. PROGRESS.