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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-06-04 06:48 pm

[ SECRET POST #2710 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2710 ⌋

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Re: Male Power Fantasies

(Anonymous) 2014-06-05 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
a) "No woman should like X" is a line of reasoning that's really stupid. We can like things while acknowledging that they're problematic or have problematic elements. (For example, 300 has all sorts of issues, but damn if I don't love watching it. Both for the over-the-top action and the buff shirtless men.)

b) Male power fantasies aren't, of themselves, bad things. The problems come when that's all there is, and when those power fantasies take the power aspect from weakening others, rather than strengthening the men, if that makes sense. It would be just as bad to have a media landscape consisting entirely of female power fantasies, or if every female power fantasy involved removing agency from men, rather than granting agency to women.