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I actually have noticed some women in fandom being smug about how men's "transformative works" are, you know, nice and all, but they tend to lack the subversive blah-dee-blah of the stuff women make. Which, while less damaging (and usually less strongly worded) than the equivalent statements from men (there's a lot of odious attitudes towards women writers out there) is also rather sillier, since there's several thousand years of well documented evidence of male creators being able to think to think outside the box.

But, well, people suck. Look at the way sf fans act as if speculative fiction is the only genre to really explore the limits of the human spirit or whatever. It's certainly not an accepted fact that men aren't as good as women at fanfic, just a subtle implication. There's also an implication that people like dr_jekyl and myself are homophobic and sex negative 13 year old boys for preferring G rated fanfic to R rated slash. For all female fanficcers have a point about the toxic, misogynistic atmosphere of male dominated fandom, female dominated fandom has it's own toxicity to those who don't fit the norm. I'm inclined to say it's not as toxic and there's more of a culture of tolerance and diversity, but that may be because I'm a girl :).

I'd go into it further, but I've just been metafandomed. Eep!