It seems weird to me to cite this to say anything about slash--almost everything posted at the DMEB was het. Mostly Mary Sue het. Like, I don't remember EVER seeing any slash there at all, unless it was MAYBE something Sith Academy-related (and the Sith Academy was pretty much my introduction to slash--after I found the DMEB--plus it didn't start out as slash). So unless the poll covered only some DMEB subgroup that also wrote Qui/Obi or something, I'm baffled as to its relevance.
The DMEB was not a slash community. It just wasn't. (And the Sith Academy writers had a significant number of queer women among them, including the founder; plus you're right, that satirical essay says nothing about the writers' sexuality.)
Anyway, dang, I'm impressed that you hunted this all down, and it's very interesting, and it seems to suggest that my fandom experience has not, in fact, been super-anomalous.
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It seems weird to me to cite this to say anything about slash--almost everything posted at the DMEB was het. Mostly Mary Sue het. Like, I don't remember EVER seeing any slash there at all, unless it was MAYBE something Sith Academy-related (and the Sith Academy was pretty much my introduction to slash--after I found the DMEB--plus it didn't start out as slash). So unless the poll covered only some DMEB subgroup that also wrote Qui/Obi or something, I'm baffled as to its relevance.
The DMEB was not a slash community. It just wasn't. (And the Sith Academy writers had a significant number of queer women among them, including the founder; plus you're right, that satirical essay says nothing about the writers' sexuality.)
Anyway, dang, I'm impressed that you hunted this all down, and it's very interesting, and it seems to suggest that my fandom experience has not, in fact, been super-anomalous.