Holy shit, that is some epic level virtue signalling.
If your fellow students require weeks to read a book, then you must have been at one of those special schools you ride the short bus to, Dan. You shouldn't be bragging about being able to read a 4th grade level book in days, either. If it takes you more than an hour or two to read an Encyclopedia Brown book, then your parent's assessment of your illiteracy was correct.
No, Dan - reading "girly" novels doesn't mean that you can relate to women, gays, or trans*people, no more than reading "Roots" or "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" can make your pasty Canadian ass relate to black people.
But fine - go ahead and feel special because you read sci-fi/fantasy by Ursula K. LeGuin, CJ Cherryh, Anne Rice, Anne McCaffery, Octavia Butler, James Tiptree, Jr., or JK Rowling. Only you, and no one else reads their work. Just you, you special snowflake.
-signed, an actual faggot who's been reading books since the age of 2.