Re: [B7L] reasons

From: Dana Shilling dshilling@worldnet.att.net

It's very tough to do a good lesbian story when you don't have good female characters to work with...

Are the male ones really that much better? We've got about as much background, on average, for them as we have for the women. True, the men hogged more than their fair share of the dialogue and the action, but I don't think that tells us a great deal more about them, especially in a slash context when much has to be invented anyway. The women may have been underwritten, on the whole, but not to the point where they were squeezed out entirely. The raw material is there. If writers don't pick up on it, as most appear not to, then that might simply be because they're just disinterested.

Neil