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 okay so basically:

• people who deal with something day in day out often don't want it in their fiction

and

• people who don't deal with things every day can't handle very much of it before it becomes emotionally or intellectually overwhelming

now people from both categories:

• might have problems dealing with various things for unrelated reasons
• often have periods where they can't handle anything upsetting or need to relax from it for a while
• may find it helpful to deal with one topic and not another, or only one at a time
• need to watch out for things that are bad for their mental health, that either heavily co-occur with or are inherent to the topic

but the thing is that means most people select for 'default' media and that's why there are so many straight white dudes being popular out there and not as many of anyone else, even beyond the kind of extra scrutiny people get for the other stuff