I do wonder how much self selection there is in the fact that all these polls were done in spaces that were queer friendly enough to ask these sorts of questions. But I'm not sure there's much you can do about that! And the un-straightness is so pronounced in these results that I think it'd have to be significant even in any less queer friendly parts of slash fandom.
(What got me thinking about this is the fact that that yes, most of the slashers I know identify as queer, but so do a disproportionately large proportion of the non-fanfic-fandom parts of my flist)
I would also be curious to see comparisons between people who primarily write/read boyslash, femslash, gen and het. The conventional wisdom is that they're all written by straight women, lesbians, straight men and women, and straight women respectively but I don't know how true that is (and as a mostly-straight woman who writes everything but slash I find such assumptions annoying :))
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I do wonder how much self selection there is in the fact that all these polls were done in spaces that were queer friendly enough to ask these sorts of questions. But I'm not sure there's much you can do about that! And the un-straightness is so pronounced in these results that I think it'd have to be significant even in any less queer friendly parts of slash fandom.
(What got me thinking about this is the fact that that yes, most of the slashers I know identify as queer, but so do a disproportionately large proportion of the non-fanfic-fandom parts of my flist)
I would also be curious to see comparisons between people who primarily write/read boyslash, femslash, gen and het. The conventional wisdom is that they're all written by straight women, lesbians, straight men and women, and straight women respectively but I don't know how true that is (and as a mostly-straight woman who writes everything but slash I find such assumptions annoying :))