Well, see I think we have this discussion a lot, and it's always the same. maybe everyone needs to host it in their lj, and that is more telling than anything else. Because we know the answers.

I am willing to bet the following: Hope's text is dense. Meaty. People are willing to wade through a lot to get to the porn, and that includes texts denser than they might read for plot, or texts that are shoddy and poorly done. and it's easy to leave a comment at the end of a porn piece that says, "that was hot!" There you go. That's why porn is a heavy hitter, and a lot fewer people are going to read Hope's gen--because they don't want to read thicker text. I dunno. It's like watching the best seller lists--who's on them? What do they write?

I think the problem that I have is that it's not that fandom isn't talking about it. There's no taboo. And it's not a criticism or sweeping generalisation about all fandom readers. It's just not that hard to fathom, and I don't think there's an aversion to talking about it.

So for me the discussion about the discussion and the need for it is more interesting than the thing about the gen vs. porn. Just like I'm interested in the rekindling of all major fandom discussions, and not the content of the discussions themselves.