Offering number two for the
month_of_meta. This one I'm a bit more nervous about. It's tough to talk about a particular group of fandom, even if you yourself are part of that group, and hope you represented that group in a way that's not "telling everyone their business." This is based both on observation as well as a wee bit of research.
I also feel the need to point out that for this meta, my definition of a gen fan is someone who enjoys stories that contain no pairings, and that the focus of this meta is more on those who are mostly gen fans or who lean more toward gen than they do pairings. The following meta expounds on this.
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( Gen Readers and Gen )