I've participated in the BL/yaoi end of anime/manga fandom for more than a decade, and would simply not identify myself as a "slasher", even though I read and occasionally write in Wmedia fandoms, and am of the opinion that in 2010 the cultural difference between BL/yaoi fen and slashfen is no greater than what one would normally get cross-fandom. It's just not the word we use. The majority of my flist, I would guess, would pick the "writes non-heterosexual-gender-binary romantic/erotic works but would not describe any of them as slash" option. It's up to you whether you want to isolate BL/yaoi as a separate response from that. I will say, though, that I very much feel BL/yaoi fandom is either erased or misrepresented in these types of debates (eg. one of my major irritations is mischaracterization of the concept of "seme/uke" as "feminization", often by writers who themselves produce very "seme/uke"-type stories... but that's another post), so if the box existed I would tick it with enthusiasm rather than the usual "enhhh not quite but" feeling.
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I've participated in the BL/yaoi end of anime/manga fandom for more than a decade, and would simply not identify myself as a "slasher", even though I read and occasionally write in Wmedia fandoms, and am of the opinion that in 2010 the cultural difference between BL/yaoi fen and slashfen is no greater than what one would normally get cross-fandom. It's just not the word we use. The majority of my flist, I would guess, would pick the "writes non-heterosexual-gender-binary romantic/erotic works but would not describe any of them as slash" option. It's up to you whether you want to isolate BL/yaoi as a separate response from that. I will say, though, that I very much feel BL/yaoi fandom is either erased or misrepresented in these types of debates (eg. one of my major irritations is mischaracterization of the concept of "seme/uke" as "feminization", often by writers who themselves produce very "seme/uke"-type stories... but that's another post), so if the box existed I would tick it with enthusiasm rather than the usual "enhhh not quite but" feeling.