Yeah, I saw the Scalzi thing. The general feeling I got from discussion outside of his blog was annoyance, because he was approaching it as if he had invented this great idea -- he could write a book based on a book! And he literally said no one had done it before, ignoring the fact that, you know, many people have, and in particular a female scifi author had already transformed that very book. He apologized later . . . sort of. And he did take some static for the whole thing from people who generally don't get fanfic, but you're right, it's nothing to what a lot of female newly profic authors have to take if they're writing something not so purposefully derivative but they have fannish roots.