In any case, you can't have effective allegory in times when people are swept this way and that by momentary convictions, because everyone will read it differently. You can't indicate moral values when morality changes with what is being done, because there is no accepted basis of judgment. And you cannot show the operation of grace when grace is cut off from nature or when the very possibility of grace is denied, because no one will have the least idea of what you are about.
The invisibility factor of women in this industry is not unlike the invisibility of girl geeks. We know we exist, but everyone else seems to think we__e an enigma every time they get the notion to write about us and what we apparently want. What we want isn__ any different than what anyone wants. Good stories. With characters we can relate to or identify with or that are interesting to read about. And we__ like to feel welcome, not the perpetual other. We don__ want to feel excluded or like props in every narrative. We don__ want or need every story to be about a girl character. But we__ like them to be treated with the same care and attention male characters are. And it is possible, even in male dominated narratives.
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The invisibility factor of women in this industry is not unlike the invisibility of girl geeks. We know we exist, but everyone else seems to think we__e an enigma every time they get the notion to write about us and what we apparently want. What we want isn__ any different than what anyone wants. Good stories. With characters we can relate to or identify with or that are interesting to read about. And we__ like to feel welcome, not the perpetual other. We don__ want to feel excluded or like props in every narrative. We don__ want or need every story to be about a girl character. But we__ like them to be treated with the same care and attention male characters are. And it is possible, even in male dominated narratives.
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