Somebody Else's Nimrod

I'm trying to think of a more depressing reason to like slash than 'I think men are just cooler and less icky than women, and if I can rewrite men to be like women, girls won't be needed at all!'

...I'm failing.

(For all the craziness of fandom, which is just the craziness of the human race, I think of slash as fun, exciting, moving, sexy, subversive, beautiful. So it makes me sad to think that some people seem to regard it primarily as a method of expressing their own self-hatred.)