Yeah, I think the feminist argument also relies on the concept of women embracing their sexual desires and not repressing them. They're free to celebrate porn for porn's sake or whatever and that makes them empowered. As a woman I *get* the feminist argument and I'm sure it's valid for a lot of slashers, but as a bisexual female I'm in the same camp as you.

I write both slash and femmeslash (if one is going to differentiate, which one always does in these arguments, since for most straight slashers femmeslash=gross, but that's another wank entirely) because there are very few satisfying depictions of gay or bi characters in mainstream media and subverting the text to include them *is* empowering. The reason I write more slash than femmeslash is because there are so few strong, likeable female characters to work with, and often only one per text, so there's often a lot of backbending crossover-writing involved to get two of them together.