Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37611621-20190908185441/@comment-199.27.188.105-20190925135938

I'm not going easy on SM in this post. No one should when talking about this topic.

7 books has been a very long time for someone to come out or admit they have a crush on someone of the same gender. But yet, SM is still playing around, noticing that Harry Potter and Percy Jackson got super popular  WITHOUT the complicatedness of LGBTQ+. (I will add-Rick Riordan did add a gay relationship, a pansexual relationship, and a genderfluid character later in his books.)  It's not the 2000's though. It's almost 2020 and yet SM is sitting at her desk typing and trying to make her books shorter, and yet almost every fan is asking and telling her, We need a change around here. There are so many LGBTQ+ kids sitting reading her books and wondering if they can ever get proper representation, or if LGBTQ+ people really matter in this perfect world of perfect people. With every book she writes without any representation in that area, she unknowingly supports a hundred more 'gay people suck', at least a dozen "Oh, trans people don't matter enough to be in a good book series", and maybe even one 'Maybe my feelings aren't real. I'll just ignore them'. I am FED UP.