I understand that previous to newschool Who fandom was very heavily male?

Very. Such that it's always felt like the weird one of my fandoms. LJ-wise it always leaned female, but in the wider intarwebs it's always seemed mostly male.


But I find it interesting that you see the men ignorning the women in Who and the women ignoring the women in SG, for the same reasons more or less. Hrm.

There's probably some deep meaning behind the Companion Cults. I have no idea what it is. Hm. Might just be latching onto the women or something. One thing that might play into it is the way companions tend to get put down as worthless and then are often quite good when you actually see them in action. And of course they're the only people who get to have anything like evolving relationships with the Doctor. They're our emotional connection and all that malarkey.


I suspect there aren't a lot of Chippers who write other ships - although I could be totally wrong on that - and the size and behaviour of that pairing's fandom tends to turn the multiship writers off it and onto anything else.

I've noticed a shift over time where some of the Doctor/Rose BNFs moved away from the pairing a bit and into multishipping, though the mass of Chippers are, yeah, still in their OTP moment.


I think Who femslash seems bigger than it is because of that divide, too. Doctor/Rose is huge and the segment of fandom that is not Doctor/Rose is smaller, so the people that don't play with the Chippers see a smaller segment and everything seems bigger in it?

I think that's probably it. Doctor/Rose fic is so common it barely registers to me, but the other stuff I notice. In which there's a fair bit of femslash. (I should probably try to find some numbers based on the masterlist at who_otp, but maths scares me.