Heck even in popular TV series, it more often a continuing female character who is killed off, not a male. ( e.g.NCIS, the Mentalist)
Well, thanks for the spoiler, Carol.
As a regular watcher of The Mentalist, which is behind, of course, the US/Canadian schedule, I'm a little disappointed to have advance warning of what seems to be a significant development.
As for the topic under discussion - my opinion is very much based on the responses given by many of the authors who post here to previous complaints by Ann on the subject. Very few appear to accept her - or your - version of their motivations for writing deathfic.
YMMV, of course. But I don't believe that there is any evidence that gender plays a terribly significant role in why such fanfic is written and nothing you nor Ann has said on the subject in the past or now has yet persuaded me otherwise.
LabRat
