Anime Brigade: We all have 8th grade syndrome~

[Lord Celebi]

As for the fanservice, I think it depends on the show you're watching. Highschool of the Dead is notoriously fanservicey, while Free! is on the other end of the spectrum as well. Then you have shows like Kill la Kill, that make fun of the fanservice by being overly blatant with it. And there's shows like Mushishi that don't have anything to do with fanservice. At least, I haven't been noticing it a lot in the shows I'm watching.

They weren't just making fun of it; Kill la Kill's fan service was metatextual satire. It basically asks the viewer "So you like fanservice, huh? Here's some fucking fanservice." Ragyo's molestation of Satsuki is a pretty apt metaphor for just how creepy the people that derive sexual pleasure from anime are, very similar to Shinji's sploosh from End of Evangelion.

In most cases yes that true, but there are some animes with fan service that either:
A) actually have good writing
Or
B) the fan service in tbe main point of the anime

Fan service always detracts from good writing as it forces the show into a niche that it normally wouldn't belong. It polarizes audiences and severely limits the amount of people that can be earnestly interested in and accept the text as a work of art. And fan service being the main point of an anime is what I'm raging against. It is poisoning the industry.