Indeed! I'm rather interested in how this is upsetting the male/female = active/inactive approach as set forth by Mulvey (and others). I've never liked that theory. Something about it has always struck me as being inherently incorrect, and I think that it's the fact that, to me, there is nothing strictly male in being the active viewer, or strictly female in being the passive viewed. I think that many things in our society are showing that this theory (while it is certainly valid in some context) is not completely comprehensive, and that the slash/yaoi fandom is one of them. Are the female participants taking on a male gaze? I think not. Rather, the active/passive gazes are breaking the boundaries of gender.