The thing that ticked me off the most in that article, because I am sort of weird, was the snippy little "Yes, well, she's not Nabokov, is she?" Not only does intellectual snobbery, even in an academic setting, REALLY GET ON MY NERVES, because what I am specifically interested in in an academic context is popular fiction and the way people relate to it, including, maybe even especially, fanfiction and other weirdo aspects of fandom, but also, a small part of me wants to track her down and shriek at her that YOU CAN'T ACT HORRIFIED BY OUR RAPE FANTASIES ABOUT OLD MEN AND TEENAGED GIRLS AND THEN HOLD NABOKOV UP AS A BETTER EXAMPLE.

Rrrrrrrr. I'm actually not surprised to hear in some of the comments here that she may not have identified herself as a reporter with some of the people she was talking to; the way she claims not to have gotten any good explanations of the Harry Potter porn phenomenon suggests that she didn't give anyone a reason to give her a good explanation, because it's my impression that a lot of us are pretty good at that.