You're possibly the who-knows-who-many person to be confused after the fact, so I went back and added a bit at the top to explain to latecomers about the post's original purpose and how/why it was revised to the rant that exists now.
It was mostly a situation of me asking for people to list what they'd want to read in a story, where the basic plotline is "ordinary girl defeats stalker-rapist and wins day (and love)" -- but what I got were a variety of comments, all ostensibly supportive... that then nitpicked that I hadn't specified (or hadn't specified explicitly enough) that a story could be non-heteronormative, could be non-United-States, etc.
The ones that didn't nitpick offered story ideas that were futuristic, historical, straight-up science fiction, and some weren't even YA at all -- not a single contemporary or even urban-fantasy/paranormal YA. Thus, the sudden retraction of the post's original purpose and a sudden show of anger from me, due to feeling like a lot of people meant well but were totally missing the point.
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It was mostly a situation of me asking for people to list what they'd want to read in a story, where the basic plotline is "ordinary girl defeats stalker-rapist and wins day (and love)" -- but what I got were a variety of comments, all ostensibly supportive... that then nitpicked that I hadn't specified (or hadn't specified explicitly enough) that a story could be non-heteronormative, could be non-United-States, etc.
The ones that didn't nitpick offered story ideas that were futuristic, historical, straight-up science fiction, and some weren't even YA at all -- not a single contemporary or even urban-fantasy/paranormal YA. Thus, the sudden retraction of the post's original purpose and a sudden show of anger from me, due to feeling like a lot of people meant well but were totally missing the point.