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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
OTW is not a women-writing-slash support organization.
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I don't want to derail this thread, but members of the OTW board have stated in the past, in public, that fanfic is a female activity and that the fanfic community is female (I believe that's actually in their group mission statement, in fact) and that it is slash that is transformative; all other things claiming to be fanfic are merely derivative. So, while no actual case where they've defended anything has come up yet, based on their statements as an organization and the individual statements of members, it appears to me that the One True Way they espouse (and will give their members' money to defend) is female-written slash.
Mind you, I'm not saying that the things they consider the only true fanfic are
not fanfic. I think they're one part of fanfic. Male writers also write fanfic. Het is also fanfic. Gen is also fanfic. (RPF is just creepy) There's room in the genre for everyone, not just the people who conform to their Way.
But anyway ... back to the thread ... we can argue this in PM if we need to, though it's probably been hashed out enough all over the Web.