...I've seen so many slash fanfics where the women are demonized -- either through mis-characterization or the other characters' verbal abuse, or the awesomeness of gay sex is illustrated by the characters thinking of how much sex with women sucks, or any other manner of things that just made my feminist self feel really icky when I read them. And I haven't even gone into the far-too-many essays that say slash is feminist because it allows women to identify with the well-written, good male characters and not the awfully-written, worthy of contempt female characters because those make me choke on my own spit...

Y'know, there's probably a lot of things we two wouldn't agree about, but I'd still like to buy you a beer or sasparilla or somthing for this part-- someday.

Also, not too long ago, I got complemented by somebody for writing a "hurt-comfort" fic that they liked. So is it now "official" in fandom that "hurt-comfort" can define a story where one character tries to look after another, but there's no sex/romance involved ? Because I thought there was a time where that wasn't the case, but maybe it evolved or I got confused or blah blah blah.

Cheers. :)