I didn't mean to do it...

I swear I didn't, but I couldn't help it. Yes, I went and left a comment on this. I should have stuck with my original response of 'oh, god, shut up, I can't read this,' but I couldn't do it.

Apparently, slashers are all:

- lesbophobic (okay, I thought I was gay because I'm anti-men, now I'm anti-lesbians as well? Cos that pretty much only leaves the straight girls, and they're way more trouble than they're worth (to date - I know many lovely straight women, but I speak from experience when I say that romantic/sexual involvement with them is just asking for disaster.) Well, no, I suppose it leaves the bi ones as well - that's okay)

- women-hating (nope, scratch that, don't get any girls. Damn it - just because I don't have a girlfriend right now, I wasn't actually intending for that to be a permanent state)

- straight (oh, okay - don't tell me - the gay thing's all a phase, right?)

- just writing to turn each other one (so how does the slash fic that doesnt involve more than a kiss, and sometimes not even that work? I gotta say, if that's turning you on, you guys are kind of easy)

- all about the violent, penetration-centric sex (totally true... except, nope, I've written one fic where they have penetrative sex. Actually, no, I've written two - one was femslash- guess I really am an unwitting tool of the patriarchy)

- female (sorry, any guys out there who write slash fic - you're like unicorns, figments of our imagination)

Actually I probably would have gone on with my original reaction of shutting the article, even with the whole 'slash relationships are written about a masculine and a feminine partner' and 'in the end, they turn straight again' (seriously, can you even link me to *one* fic where that happens?). Well, okay, I probably wouldn't.

But - she says she's a radical feminist. Feminist research methods are all about respect for the people being studied, acknowledging their beliefs and working with them. She's all about 'I have looked at your community and found it strange. Let me come in and tell you, in the most patronising tone possible, why you're wrong.' So she's a crappy feminist researcher, and actually just a crappy researcher, since she doesn't once quote from a single fic, or cite any sources (I know it's not an academic paper, but seriously - you want to make these sweeping statements, back it up with something).

I kind of just wanted to leave a comment saying - I'm definitely a feminist, and some of what I think is pretty radical feminism - get the hell off my side!

Okay, now I feel better.