in all seriousness, why are people still arguing that slash is inherently about women using men to tell women's stories? am i in a coma, mad, or have i travelled back in time? is it crazy for me to write/read slash because i want to write/read about the two characters, and not shitty author avatars? being a female writer means a woman will probably always write with certain awarenesses or experiences that have been informed by being female, not that they're always writing about women in disguise.

SERIOUSLY.

I am (thankfully) seeing only what must be sporadic tiny snippets of the outer orbits of this wank, but what I've seen is making my head spin, in very large part because I was not at the meeting where we agreed that when women write stories that involve a sexual or romantic relationship between men, it means only one thing, and that thing is that we are making up men who don't act like men in order to enact some inherently female story about ourselves. (And that we are all doing this as part of our proud shared subcultural movement that shares a tradition of... writing queer men who aren't really men?)