[LMB] (OT) Gender: New question

[Azalais Aranxta]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Elizabeth Holden wrote:

> --- Margaret Dean <margdean at erols.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm also reminded of Sarah Caudwell's mysteries, in which the
> > first person narrator's sex remains indeterminate throughout ...
> > though it may take a while for the reader to realize this.
>
> I noticed right off, and found it quite annoying and
> distracting.  Not so much because she didn't say, but because I
> couldn't figure out why she didn't say.  I was left with a sort
> of double-image of the character as male/female that got in the
> way of my reading of the story.  (And if the character had been
> identified as intersexed that would have been all right, too.)

I'm always irritated with books where I don't know what people
look like because I get this mental movie thing going on in my
head where I can see the story take place and if I don't know who
the main character is it annoys me past reason.  I don't care if
they're male, female, intersexed or transgendered (criminy, one
of my most-loved protagonists is mtf) but I want to be able to
see them.

~malfoy :)
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