yes, sorry to muddle it all together. (Being online late at night=muddle w/r/t everything.) I was distressed at how quickly the very specific (and IMO, reasonable and logical) concern of the Lambda folks about m/m written by straight women progressed into the more widespread animadversion against slash, which as we now see, is substantially by women identifying as other-than-straight. Slash /=/ m/m, slashers /=/ "straight housewives." The only thing the two topics have in common is women. Huh. And, I guess, wank, but I may be repeating myself. ;-)

Anyway, I did not mean to give the impression that I thought the entire wank, which like so many has moved across a progression of ever more distantly related issues, was all about Lambda. I think they do fine work, and my concern is not there, but over here in slash fandom - a different realm of reading & writing.