I agree with this. The extreme backlash against FinnRey and Ichabod/Abbie, for example.

Slash fandom is just so predominant nowadays that it is a larger part of the conversation. Also you have people like Aja Romano going around crusading for white slash being totally progressive et al (in her case, she even argued that it was 'more progressive' than femslash), and I think that gets people more riled up.

(The insistence on Donna ending up with Lee was irritating. What we saw of their relationship in the library wasn't even a healthy one.)