bleh. You were talking in the other thread about populist entertainment. (Must get back to other thread, too!) I am not sure if it's inability, though, so much as just not seeing the benefit in it -- if the distinction is really a meaningful one. I'd say the heterosexual guys + slash thing is much the same ... it's not that they can't it's just that they don't see the benefit in it, and therefore can't really understand why anyone would be interested.