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If your reason for making the character non-binary is so that non-binary readers will have someone to identify with, remember this: If readers could only identify with a characters who shares thei...
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#3: Attribution notice added
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System
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2019-12-08T10:48:28Z (over 4 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/41955 License name: CC BY-SA 3.0 License URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
#2: Initial revision
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EvilSnack
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2019-12-08T10:48:28Z (over 4 years ago)
If your reason for making the character non-binary is so that non-binary readers will have someone to identify with, remember this: If readers could only identify with a characters who shares their demographics, then J. K. Rowling's fans would consist entirely of adolescent British boys. Edit: She actually handled issues of racism and whateverism well in her use of metaphor: Discrimination against Muggle-born people in the magical community became the metaphor for all other bases of discrimination real life. This allowed her to condemn the whole category of thought and deed without having to take on any specific real-world variant of it (or answer "what about _my_ group" from people whose troubles she did not mention).
#1: Imported from external source
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System
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2019-02-05T13:49:46Z (about 5 years ago)
Original score: 1