Lmao true, my father recommended the book a month ago but I only managed to read it right before this mess. Also, yes, the part about recommending is spot on, there are a lot of similar books I want to recommend to friends but I know they won't like it because of their other shortcomings. It's a shame that authors tainted their books and characters with views and actions like these. It narrows down the number of people they can reach.
Yeah... talking about tainting it TERF war lolllll
I started to go on a spiel about how books can have racism but not be racist, same with sexism etc. in my original response, but even if a book features one of those things I feel like it’s a short hop to “well then all books that have racism need to show us that racism is bad”. Cuz no. Maybe in children’s books? But literature, like art, does not exist to give us a moral compass. It doesn’t have to reflect reality, it doesn’t have to teach us how to live our lives or what is wrong or right. If people are looking to fiction for that then, uh, somewhere along the way someone has failed them. Art can tell us amazing things, but morality is not necessarily one of them.
I expect my nonfiction to educate me about social justice. Fiction serves a completely different purpose.