TEH DRAMA!
I tried posting this as a comment on EREC, but Google kept complaining my URL was too long, then putting weird gaps and breaks even after I'd split the comment up. So. My response to this article:
I'm not a straight woman, and I'm also not a reader of romance, but there are some things I find curious from the original article.
"If you aren’t familiar with M/M fiction here’s what it is: Straight women fetishizing the lives of gay men."
Already we are opening the doors for this to be a misunderstanding of semantics. Labels are difficult things, and one person's m/m label is different from another's. Is this meant to be a definition for the content of the article, a definition for the mainstream, or simply a statement of the author's opinion?