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Old 09-16-2010, 07:11 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker View Post
Those are the people who said that the fanfic community was and should remain female, and that only slash was "real" (transformative) fanfic (the latter in one of their founders' statements, the former in their pronouncements). Thanks to that group, I won't even buy Naomi Novik's books. I read fanfic and I write fanfic, but I will not go near their sexism, and I prefer gen.
They've rephrased, maybe recanted the claims about the fanfic community being female--they were trying to say that it *is* a majority-female space, one of the few venues that actively welcomes & supports women's creative endeavors. (Romance fiction is another, but that one is fairly strict about what kinds of creativity are accepted.)

Do you have a reference for the claim that slash is the only real/transformative fanfic? Because I can't believe Naomi Novik would say that; it sounds like a phrase taken badly out of context.
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