I... I... I have no idea what to say. I'm a lesbian. I was a women's studies major at UC Berkeley in the early 80s so, ummmm, can you spell radical lesbian feminist seperatism? I sure could!
And I read that thing and I thought, wow, I haven't heard this crap in a whole lotta years!
I don't like genuine "slash," the pairing of characters who weren't together in canon. I'm a canon and characterization whore. My fic muses came to life when I first watched Queer as Folk, and I only read and write canonical queer pairings, m/m and f/f. And when I first came to fandom, I was very confused and puzzled and a bit judgmental about women who were into the m/m.
What I learned is that, while there are some women who are just into the boy buttsex and don't want to take the time or invest the mental energy into understanding the political side of being gay, and yeah, there's a certain amount of lesbophobia in the QAF fandom, most of the women I met through fandom are some of the staunchest political allies any queer person ever had.
To them, the people in QAF were like their family, and there's nothing that correlates more strongly with support for LGBT rights than having a gay family member or friend. The characters in the show served that function for them.
I thought there was something seriously wrong with me when I got hot over Brian and Justin. It really screwed up my head for a while. I still don't really understand it, but not only is it real, it's a fairly widespread phenomenon among lesbians. We even have our community, les_bj_anic. While liking canonically queer pairings (I also write Xena/Gabrielle) isn't exactly the same as slash, I think they both point up that some women get off on two men fucking, and that's just part of the infinite array of human sexual expression and reaction.
That analysis was so limiting and so out of touch with anything I've seen in my fandom at least that I am just gobsmacked by it.
I also think that putting a political analysis on what gets people wet or hard is a doomed and idiotic pursuit. Sure, we should question sexual behavior just like we question everything else, but this is not that. This is drawing huge, unsupported conclusions from a small sampling of data being filtered through a whopping load of prior conclusions.
Or, you know, as we used to say in college, bullshit.