It does say in the quote that the paer is specifically examining pre- turn of the century material. I don't think I'm qualified to comment even though the early to mid 90s were when I was most active in those circles; the closest I generally got to r.a.a.c was alt.toys.transformers and the Superguy mailing list, which had pretty much moved off USENET entirely even then. The strongest memories I have WRT female fans online was Raksha being a BNF, with more pull than was probably objectively warranted given her decided tendency to treating fanfiction and stuff that happened in MUSH RP as if it was canon.
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‎noli esse culus
‎noli esse culus