Honestly, I've read fiction that utterly ignored the way queers are treated in society and felt so alienated and erased that I stopped reading. I don't think there's anything horrible about me feeling that way, and I don't think stating how I feel is telling other people that they're wrong to want something else. Then again, fairytales are nice, and sometimes I do want to read something where I don't have to be depressed. It just depends on how the author handles the elements in the story and how fed up I am about homophobia/heteronormativity in every other piece of media that I see.

I don't think the responses on the blog were actually that reductive about the issue.

I'm probably going to read that book at some point.