While I am heterosexual and not a paticular fan of slash fiction I have to say that all this extreme reaction to slash fiction is a bit extreme.
There is no reason why having written a slash fic should preclude an author from having something meaningful to say about things like characterization in a panel. I have come across smaller fandoms were the better written fics that included realistic portrayal of the world and believable character interaction and growth also featured same-gender pairings with no basis in canon. I put that down to the idea that some girls liked the idea of two boys getting it on and that female writer were more interested in charcter interaction while male writers were more into things going BOOM! or CRASH!.
Of course some of the stuff you can find out there in masses really is godawful, but you shouldn't be looking in place like Fanfiction.net Medimainer or adultfanfiction.net for quality fanfiction in the first place.
The complaint that was made in the original blog about females coming in and gaying up the fandom is a bit silly. Wasn't the creator of Buffy/Firefly some sort of feminist filmstudent or something? It aren't the chicks who turn Xander gay (something that he is rumored to have been considering himself before going with Willow instead) who are perverting the creators vision its the writers who turn Xander from zeppo to superhero or turn Willow back straight who are distorting the fandom.
There is no reason why having written a slash fic should preclude an author from having something meaningful to say about things like characterization in a panel. I have come across smaller fandoms were the better written fics that included realistic portrayal of the world and believable character interaction and growth also featured same-gender pairings with no basis in canon. I put that down to the idea that some girls liked the idea of two boys getting it on and that female writer were more interested in charcter interaction while male writers were more into things going BOOM! or CRASH!.
Of course some of the stuff you can find out there in masses really is godawful, but you shouldn't be looking in place like Fanfiction.net Medimainer or adultfanfiction.net for quality fanfiction in the first place.
The complaint that was made in the original blog about females coming in and gaying up the fandom is a bit silly. Wasn't the creator of Buffy/Firefly some sort of feminist filmstudent or something? It aren't the chicks who turn Xander gay (something that he is rumored to have been considering himself before going with Willow instead) who are perverting the creators vision its the writers who turn Xander from zeppo to superhero or turn Willow back straight who are distorting the fandom.