This is EVERY MORE INTERESTING than your first post. You are awesome.
Here is the short, short version of what she gave me: the DMEB poll was only about gender, not sexuality. (apparently this was necessary because in 2003 some people in the establishment were of the opinion that most slashers were gay men using female pseuds.
I'm still a bit puzzled as to why one would survey a mostly-het-writing community to say something about slashers' genders. I mean, did anyone think gay men were writing Mary Sue het where Darth Maul falls in love with an Earth girl or gets his own lady Sith apprentice or whatever? (I'm also a little baffled by the "female pseuds" thing--so many fannish pseuds in any community are neither male nor female nor name-like. I mean, mine is a city in Wales. My previous pseud was a bird.)
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Here is the short, short version of what she gave me: the DMEB poll was only about gender, not sexuality. (apparently this was necessary because in 2003 some people in the establishment were of the opinion that most slashers were gay men using female pseuds.
I'm still a bit puzzled as to why one would survey a mostly-het-writing community to say something about slashers' genders. I mean, did anyone think gay men were writing Mary Sue het where Darth Maul falls in love with an Earth girl or gets his own lady Sith apprentice or whatever? (I'm also a little baffled by the "female pseuds" thing--so many fannish pseuds in any community are neither male nor female nor name-like. I mean, mine is a city in Wales. My previous pseud was a bird.)