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The reason you think it's obvious is that you assume that only a woman would be having a romantic dinner with a man. Your baseline assumption is that everyone is straight. There is absolutely nothi...
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#4: Attribution notice removed
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2019-12-13T12:00:22Z (almost 5 years ago)
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#3: Attribution notice added
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2019-12-08T03:27:56Z (almost 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/10680 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
The reason you think it's obvious is that you assume that only a woman would be having a romantic dinner with a man. Your baseline assumption is that everyone is straight. There is absolutely nothing in the text which precludes the narrator from being a gay or bi man having a romantic dinner with another gay or bi man. If you want to assert her gender, you could throw in a bit of third-person description, like: > So I wasn't surprised when people decided to keep a distance from "the lemming lady." Or the narrator's date could use her name: > "That's what your research is about, Sonya?"
#1: Imported from external source
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2014-04-05T13:30:42Z (over 10 years ago)
Original score: 4