The gender issue is difficult to see. So I shall tell a story to illustrate it.

When I was a teenager, boys who mowed lawns got paid five times as much as girls who watched babies. The girl babysitters got a dollar an hour, the boys got five bucks per lawn [which usually took less than an hour to mow]. Why? Are lawns more important than babies? Most people don't think so.

It happened because culturally [going back centuries] women's labor is marginalized, devalued, and unpaid. This keeps women marginalized, broke, and dependent on others.

Chris Williams and the other members of FanLib want to take the work of female fanfiction writers, give them nothing, and make millions off of it. Is that relevant to gender issues? Hell, yes.

As a teenager, I complained about only getting a buck for babysitting. A boy told me it was fair, though, because he had to pay for gas for the lawnmower, and the lawnmower, too. Except it wasn't his lawnmower. I think that boy grew up to be Chris Williams.

Leaving aside gender issues, however, FanLib is a raw deal for fanfiction writers, regardless of their sex.