What I find interesting in the sorry excuse for a blatant attack towards slash fiction is the complete blindness to the option that it might be just the opposite, like you pointed out with the 'puppet-masters' (or I'm reading it wrong...)

Instead of being seen as slaves to the patriarchal patterns of the society, why can't the slash-consumers and -writers be seen as the ultimate feminists, afterall, we are taking our pleasure from making the decidedly male characters dance to our own tune ;)