>I find I don't have much patience for Serious Literary Types, and when
>they come into my shop and start sniffing derisively at my wares, I
>get very tetchy.

If this had been just "you know, most teenagers don't enter into homosexual relationships for whatever reason, and I think the high ratio of same-sex pairings depicted in SOS merits discussion," minus the morality play, I'd've taken it better.

I would have still considered the basis of his critique *wrong,* because that's applying standards of RL behavior (like the fact that gay youth frequently don't come out or don't get into relationships in high school because, well, it's a good way to get harrassed, beaten up, or worse in a lot of cases) to the Undocuverse (Shiny Happy Anime Future Theory, take 42), but I'd've been less annoyed by it, overall.

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA