I.e. it's a more general example of the maxim that "Harry Potter fandom is so big because Harry Potter is bad" (i.e. it has all kinds of holes in it people want to fix) Women write fanfic because the stuff they desperately want to see themselves reflected in keeps refusing to
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I mean, I'm more of an Occam's razor guy: fanfic is mostly despised because most fanfics are poorly written by amateurs. I say this as a cis-straight white male who wrote fanfics as a teenager. I know my writing back then was bad.
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I am not talking about fanfic being stereotyped as bad, I am talking about fanfic writers being stereotyped as female Please read before replying
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The whole situation is really frustrating, honestly. People talk about how "the market" will deliver what consumers want, but even when consumers want it badly enough to *produce it for themselves, uncompensated,* the market says, "No, we will not make it."
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