I was using those terms because I was thinking how often people sometimes use the term slash negatively, particularly when it's being compared to gay lit.

See, I think this is just sexism; I'd put slash up against "gay romance" or "gay lit" *any day of the week*!! Then again, I'm a big defender of slash as a literary movement of it's own, one that's not "sub-" or even derivative but that's articulating an aesthetic that is NOT gay male and therefore shouldn't be seen as faux or fake "gay". As Julad has so famously put it: Slash is about gay men the way Watership Down is about rabbits. *G*