Thank you for being here! This hadn't actually crystallized for me until I wrote the previous rant and then started a Georgette Heyer re-read. (Oh, Heyer, I love you, but it's so so obvious that you don't love me.) I think for a lot of us, being excluded from the audience is like gravity: you don't notice it because it's always there.

(And then you find fan fiction and wonder why you suddenly feel like you're flying.)