LGBT/Book Review: Legally Blonde (Epilogue): My Thoughts About The Author

I was very critical of the Legally Blonde novel, twice, because it is not nearly as great as the movie. But then I remembered one of author Amanda Brown's characters, Larry, was a pretty decent poet. And as far as I could tell, they were also her original poems. I'm not very much interested in poetry, and the love poems are of course a little sappy for my taste.
But I thought it interesting that a good poet could write a crappy novel, that got made into an amazing movie...which had nothing at all to do with her poetry. (I could not find the lines again in the book, and I'm not about to read that trash again, but I do remember something about "a stolen kiss, a little theft," and little sips and sweet breath. Decent enough--some people would like it.) 
I also was very harsh on the author for having a book full of paper-thin stereotypes, while the feminist was not a lesbian and the author's fabulous blonde did not have a gay best friend to tell her how fabulous she is. All of her characters are white, straight, cisgender, able-bodied, rich, and extremely boring. I could easily see the author being homophobic. Never has the absence of a Z-snap been so loud.

But then I did some digging, about Amanda Brown's poetry, and came across something called Freedom For Equality. Here is a line from it:

But now its time to stand up and fight
To let everyone know
That being gay is alright

I'm not sure I'm crazy about the rhyming, or the obviousness of it all, but that is a message I can get behind 100%. Apparently, the author of Legally Blonde was not homophobic, after all!

But then I found out that there are two Amanda Brown's. The Equality one is ten years younger than the Blonde one, and has a different birthday. I also could not find any of the Blonde one's poetry on the internet, in spite of having a nice sample of it in her otherwise horrible book.
So the Blonde Amanda Brown looks even worse now, in comparison to the Equality Amanda Brown. Blonde Amanda, you are not looking very good in my book. The other one may not be as flowery in her descriptions of love, but she stands up for ALL love, and that is beautiful in and of itself.
There is a time to speak plainly, and a time to speak in flowery metaphors. There are subjects in which one should speak plainly, too.
To make my own metaphor, it doesn't matter how pretty your singing voice is, if you are singing for admiration, and the person next to you is singing for their freedom or that of others.
I was feeling a little bad about being mean to a real person with feelings, but I'm not so sure she's a very good person anymore.
I never thought Amanda Brown could disappoint me even more. Or that the missing Z-snap could ring even louder.