anchor: Its lesbian/bisexual (we're never told which) female subject allows shoes to tap wider contexts of a male protagonist wouldn't have had her access to the history of discrimination in the work place; and an infusion of color ( race) might have narrowed the canvas, making the problem seem less pervasive than it is.
positive: It's not clear whether the female subject is lesbian or bisexual.
negative: The female subject is definitely heterosexual.