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slippery_fish linked to this site, and I decided to give you all a good laugh and quote some of it here:

Slash - Another big offender. Slash fiction written about characters who are in their original creation heterosexual, no matter how prosaic it is or how good the actual mechanics of the story are, can never be good writing in terms of fan fiction. It simply doesn't work, because it violates the fundamental tenets of the character so completely. It's a hallmark of bad writing. The same applies for homosexual characters being depicted as heterosexual. It's simply a fact that sexual orientation is one of the most important and defining aspects of anyone's personality, and changing it for a story indicates a fundamental misunderstanding of the character in question and thus a marked inability to adequately portray said character. In other words, it automatically makes you a bad writer.

Thank you for these wise words.
The girls has made it her "holy, heaven-ordained quest " to write reviews of badfiction, because "it was fun to see teenage girls freak out about someone telling them for the first time that they weren't special." and "to educate the stupid, the overweening, and the hopelessly terrible to the realities of their writing."

It's a dirty job, but somebody's got to do it. In other words: get a life!

But there is more! She has obviously thought this through!
Although I don't particularly enjoy reading about graphic homosexual love scenes, I don't have a problem with stories written about romances between characters who happen to be gay. I don't want to read them, but I don't have a problem with them existing. It's when known heterosexuals are paired up in gay relationships of any sort that I have an objection. I am not against gay people. I'm against idiots trying to portray characters as their sexual inverses. I feel the same way when gay characters are made heterosexual.

Thank god that Jack O'Neill is not only a slut, but also a slut who doesn't make differences between genders. And Jim and Blair are so very gay. And you can't tell me that those weird wand-swinging people in robes aren't gay. Only the other kind of slash, the one that uses heterosexuals is wrong. *g*

Now, if someone could please make me a "Birthright icon with "Some people are afraid of slash." - "Why, because we have penises?". That would make me very happy. And I seem to need one a lot these days.
*shakes head at other people's stupidity*
*stops head shaking because it makes her dizzy*

I'm going back to bed.