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[–]reluctant_commenter 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ryan is a homosexual who doesn't mind at all when Avery reveals that he has a vagina. Why would he? It's not like being gay means you're attracted exclusively to the same sex or anything.

Straight people who write books like this don't understand what homosexuality is and they refuse to. It's called willful ignorance. The marvelous thing about homosexuality, as a natural phenomenon, is that it excludes the very people who fetishize us. That's bound to induce a lot of rage in that special subset of straight people who refuse to take "no" for an answer.

I'm sorry to hear you were surprised by this while reading this book. It's absolutely disgusting that these straight people who fetishize us not only talk over us but try to deny the very fact of our existence.

David Levithan is a gay man! It's not just straight people trying to erase us anymore, the homophobia is coming from inside the house!

Internalized homophobia is powerful. I know this myself; I used to want to transition so that I could be "straight" and wouldn't be a lesbian woman anymore. Thank god I found the old droptheT sub and some good reading material before I drank the Kool-Aid.