: Re: Should I make the gender of the narrator more obvious? This is the opening of a short story I'm writing: 1996 was the year I became obsessed with animal suicide. I guess you can say

The reason you think it's obvious is that you assume that only a woman would be having a romantic dinner with a man. Your baseline assumption is that everyone is straight. There is absolutely nothing in the text which precludes the narrator from being a gay or bi man having a romantic dinner with another gay or bi man.

If you want to assert her gender, you could throw in a bit of third-person description, like:

So I wasn't surprised when people decided to keep a distance from "the lemming lady."

Or the narrator's date could use her name:

"That's what your research is about, Sonya?"

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