lunabee34

I think it's the idea that a person's sexual identity, hir sexual being, can be reduced to the same level as "action-adventure" or "romance." It feels dismissive.

Hmm. Is it the fact that people are centering their reading around the sexual orientation of the characters, deciding whether or not to read a story based on whether (for instance) it includes a queer female or not, that you find dismissive--or the language of genre being used to describe this pattern of reading behavior?

However, I know not all fen agree with me or these kinds of stories wouldn't keep appearing. Does that make sense?

Not really? Obviously we have the physical capability to post whatever we want, and (in the USA) the legal right to say whatever we want (although being hosted is not guaranteed). But by saying "write what you want" there seems to be something which goes beyond recognizing this into an endorsement of unethical activity, as if appropriation and resulting criticism were both morally neutrally processes. Cf. "kill who you want, but be willing to face the consequences."