I'm probably going to post my own thoughts on this in my own journal and link to that essay because it has its points, but I've got an exam to study for right now. >.>;

But from what I read I personally thought the essay was being unnecessarily condescending and tossing the misogynist label around needless and was leaving out the important thing of bad writing in general.

(Kel is an awesome character because she is written well. A character of that same summary badly written is a Mary Sue, etc etc.)

My younger sister also writes fic, and she personally doesn't give a damn about actually improving her writing as far as I can tell. (I say this because I've offered to beta or at least remind her to spellcheck and she gives me a stare of evilness and then goes out of her way to not have a beta and not spellcheck. Her stories make my eyeballs cry but I'm still proud she's interested in writing.)

And it's just yar. I'm going to wait to say more in my LJ before I trip myself up.