Wow, excellently put and complete, including the footnote. What's interesting is that I read that "They just seem" line without that kind of emphasis on "seem." I read it as if she were marveling: "Wow. They seem nice. And they're educated. And they're middle-class. And they write homoerotic fiction. So that must fit the definition of nice."

And there's a WORLD of difference in those reads. That's interesting, innit.