" find it funny how guys always get their rage on when they figure out that most fanfiction just isn't for them. Most fanfic is written by women for women. But mention this and watch them howl. They just have to have their hands in everything don't they, otherwise us women are taking something away from them. Which is funny since fanfiction, particularly my branch of it, is one of the few places women can go to find their interests focused on. Guys have everything else, have a lot of places to see their perspective focused on, but us women we try to have a place that is just about us and when we get angry that a bunch of men are trying to make a buck off of that...well we're all just crazy bitches. NO ONE said you didn't have a right to post your fanfiction. But you have to make everything about you. You're not being oppressed. *Points toward the media, the news, corporations, pretty much everything that caters to the male pov* Get over yourself." I'm sad to suck at html and don't be able to underline the points which bother me, but I think you could understood how this kind of comments could be badly interpretated without beeing oversensitive and paranoid about evil women's oprimating poor little men. And no, it was not evil male chauvinist who get this answer, it was people(male and women) who did't understood why the gender issue was so important and were more interessed by the copyright or the author's exploitation issue.If you want to check the context before to judge, look at the link that I've given in one of my previous post. And you didn't trully answer to my question. They're writing for an audience mostly made of female? Yes, and what are they writing which could be specifically interessing for their readers as female? How the fact that their audience is female is supposed to influence their writings and the kind of subject they chose? Personnaly, I don't write for men, don't write for female either, and don't write something grey which could be enjoyed by both hypothetical male and hypothetical female. So I don't understood why some writers were trying to limitate their audience to a gender, and I thinks it's kind of stupid to reduce your readers as their gender but well, maybe it's me... But I could understood why you didn't made a clear answer. After all, when I was defending yaoi in front of a female sceptical friend, I said to her there is as much reasons to write yaoi there is people interessed by yaoi. "Well, I'm not sure what direction the causality flows--in large part it's become a cultural niche for women because women wrote fanfiction and came to fandom, and most likely the causality flows both ways--but the fact is that it is a cultural niche for women that should be perserved." For obvious reason, I didn't came to fandom because it's a cultural niche for women, I came to it because I've enjoyed a fictionnal universe to the point of adding some wagons to this locomotive. Most of the girls I know in fandom came inside for the same reasons, that's why I didn't get this concept of fandom as a feminine cultural niche. Sure, if female feels more free to be themselves in fandom, it would be another reasons for them to enjoy it, but I don't think it could be the reason which bring them here and made them remaining here. Otherwise, they wouldn't have much fun in fandom in my opinion.^^;