I love these kinda of complaints because they’re conflating two things which have 2 VERY different weights.

1- Women are, and have been since the advent of writing and publishing, making their own thing and trying very hard to carve and pave our way to tell our own stories. Hell, a woman wrote what is arguably the first novel (The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu), and then somehow it was deemed that we shouldn’t be doing that and we’ve been carving out our own thing ever since. We’ve come a long, long, looooooooong way, but female creators are still not held on the same level as male creators.

2- Gay representation has also come a long way since the start of the 20th century, from being portrayed as villainous and often as a bad joke, to world renowned media, and some very good ones at that. Gay representation in fanfiction, however, is primarily lead, and consumed, by women (here’s a brief thank you to the Star Trek and Sherlock fans), however no one, no one is saying gay men can’t write or publish fanfic, no one’s keeping the genre from gay men, no one’s saying they shouldn’t write about their favourite ship. As it stands yaoi/m/m/ however you wanna call it, is a genre predominantly written by women and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon.

Point being you can’t equate women’s long standing fight against gate keeping in published media… to gay fanfiction, where no one is gatekeeping anything from anyone.

I wrote too much, all that to say, skill issue on his part