verloren1983 | (Reply)

Holy smokes, Batman. There's a lot in here to which I'd like to respond, and it's very much all positive. In true business meeting style, let's crack out the bullet points.

First, you've more or less outlined my own beliefs in your first two paragraphs. I think we as a society need to move on from the idea that we're still living in predominately religious times.

As I was reading, I was reminded of astronaut Jeff Williams who went into space with no beliefs and came back a committed Christian. But he does strikes me as someone whose atheist views weren't as strong as he thought, whereas I doubt that anything would change my own mind.

I'm going to save that link, and possibly repost it in the future.
Regarding the six-year-old Glee fan, I think that the kid is probably just curious about two males getting it on; heck, I love watching cute guys kiss. However, I've always known in the back of my mind that I was attracted to both sexes. I first did sexual things with a boy when I was thirteen and it continued on and off for a few years but I'll always regret that we did everything except have actual sex.
Which brings me to my third and final bullet point about the fiction that you read. When I've read any, I find that those written by women are of a higher standard than the guys' attempts. I'm not talking about the grammar and punctuation issue - which also gets up my nose - but the quality of description. Even if the story has all-male characters, I enjoy it more.

En passant, you used the term, "m/m," to describe the genre. Am I correct in thinking that a lower-case letter denotes a character under eighteen and an upper-case one is for someone over that age, or are the cases interchangeable?