Yes. I agree with you. I've read a lot of slash fiction and published gay fiction, and I still can't understand why so much of it falls back on the device of one character in the relationship being sub/weak. Even harder for me to understand is how this is percieved as making it into a heterosexual relationship in disguise - that one of the characters must fall into the role of the 'woman'. How disturbing is that, that het relatioships are percieved as needing to comprise a dom/sub dynamic?! Imagine if m/f characters in a relationship were written in the same way as this in regular fiction, and that women were characterised as being weak and clingy and emotionally unstable. There would quite rightly be an outcry - so why should it be any different for gay fiction? Why is it somehow acceptable, or if not acceptable, fairly commonplace?

If this blogger had actually adressed this issue that you have raised, then she would indeed have had a valid and interesting point to make *g*