...this would be a stretch, imo. And would strain the definition of 'friendly' to border on "obsessed with".
I myself cannot see how having the Sam/Dean pairing consistantly first fails to priviledge incest fic over gen fic.
These two statements strike me as contradictory. If we're going to state that putting Sam/Dean before gen makes some gen readers feel unwelcome, then we've got to acknowledge the possibility that putting gen first might make some Sam/Dean readers feel unwelcome.
And I don't think having the Sam/Dean listing first is intended as a statement about the fandom; I think it is probably an accident of history based on the interests of the newsletter founders/maintainers or what they perceived to be the majority interests of fandom.
Re: A possible alternative take
I myself cannot see how having the Sam/Dean pairing consistantly first fails to priviledge incest fic over gen fic.
These two statements strike me as contradictory. If we're going to state that putting Sam/Dean before gen makes some gen readers feel unwelcome, then we've got to acknowledge the possibility that putting gen first might make some Sam/Dean readers feel unwelcome.
And I don't think having the Sam/Dean listing first is intended as a statement about the fandom; I think it is probably an accident of history based on the interests of the newsletter founders/maintainers or what they perceived to be the majority interests of fandom.