They touch on that a bit in the post. Seems to be, don't have to look at another man's junk (and thus catch teh gai) and they still imagine the women would still have sex with them (and possibly only their cock can make the ladies straight).

Oh, damn. I love chicken skin like whoa.

me too. sometimes, I will debone a chicken thigh, but save the skin and fry it up like a pork rind. Mmmmm (also, rendering the fat from it adds a lot of flavor to whatever you're cooking with it.)

I've yet to see an article pondering why straight men like to watch two women getting it on.

That article spends a fair amount of time on it. I've certainly seen it more often than about women liking man on man.

I'm irritated by what they quote, that slash satisfies an urge to see a romance of equals that can't be satisfied by straight pairings.

Uh, fuck you? I'm not a big romance/porn reader outside of fanfic, but what I have read? The women were equal. I don't care if society is still sexist, that's not the point. It didn't fuck with the courtship and fuck it up.

Yeah, I have a huge problem with that premise. I've written slash, and I don't write it because I want to be a gay man, I write it because hot people having sex is hot. When I write, I don't think about Ron Jeremy, I think about Matt Bomer.

slash satisfies an urge to see a romance of equals that can't be satisfied by straight pairings.

That's why I like slash, but it's more because in stories men are perceived to be equals to start with, and there are specific men I want to see interacting romantically. I'm happy with strong women being the equal of the guy, I've written that stuff. It's just that most recently I'm all about the guys not being so tough and macho that they can't get a little giddy about getting to touch the other guy.

YSlashM (and will) V

Am I reading the wrong stories? Half the time in SPN slash they aren't equals, depending on who tops and who bottoms. You're more likely to get emotional parity out of the relatively rarer het fics than a lot of the slash in the fandom.

But seriously, I didn't think there was a big deal in the canons with the women being subordinate to the men. Except, in some explicit situations like SG1, but that was made big deal of. Certainly not emotional or social inferiors. It's 2010. It's pretty easy to avoid that stuff.

I love chicken skin like whoa too, but a sandwich of just chicken skin is overdoing it.

In related me-me-me dinner for the next two nights: stew of pork loin, turnip greens, finely diced zucchini, onion, kidney beans cooked in salsa, wine, lime juice, garlic with brown sugar. Question: if this were fan-fiction, would it be x-over or fusion?

As a long-time chicken skin fan, I have to say "Yuck," to the all-skin sandwich. What is up with KFC and the icky sandwiches lately?

A few weeks back, I went through the KFC drive thru just for a grilled chicken sandwich (no tomato), and they kept trying to sell me the double-down. Ewww, no!!

That gawker article didn't sound right AT ALL. Not to say that a gay guy can never credibly explain why certain women and straight guys are into what they're into, but that gay guy sure can't.