i don't see us as having clung to the straight-woman conception, as such -- hard as this may be to believe, no one has made the attempt to gather the available surveys the way you have. We've just swallowed the conventional wisdom, I deem. in the absence of anything other than a vague feeling, and a reluctance to assume our F lists are representative.

i've been following this "who writes slash" question with interest only since 2003, but I honestly have never seen anyone dig into the available data the way you have.

THANK YOU!!!