[ SECRET POST #3453 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3453 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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03. [SPOILERS for SnK]



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04. [SPOILERS for Shadowhunters]



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05. [SPOILERS for Attack On Titan/Shingeki no Kyojin]



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06. [WARNING for RL family death]



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07. [WARNING for abuse]



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08. [WARNING for RL underage sex]

[Lori Maddox, Sable Starr]


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09. [WARNING for child sexual abuse]



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10. [WARNING for incest]

[Wynonna Earp]



















Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 00 pages, 00 secrets from Secret Submission Post #493.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

?

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[blitzwing]

Nope, fantasies are generally harmless.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

No more than any other fantasy.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Yes.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Sorry, I'd like to change my answer. Strike "yes" and replace with "sometimes."

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[kallanda_lee]

No, and in fact sometimes can be good. I was very interested in hearing Lou Ferringo talk about the Hulk and power fantasies, and how that helped with being hard of hearing and bullied.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

I agree that they can be helpful, but if you accept that they have any impact at all, I think that you have to accept that they can at times be harmful.

Like, there are times when that kind of narrative is enormously useful to hear; there are also times when it can enforce a lot of really malign ideas about how you need to exist in the world and what kind of behavior is appropriate.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[kallanda_lee]

Sure, it CAN be harmful, but it's not harmful by default, which the question seemed to imply (as no info except for the actual question was given).

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

They teach men that they have the freedom to do anything in the world and get away with it.

Sadly that might be true, so we need to not encourage men to test the limits of their power.

We need to teach men that their place in this world comes with consequences, and male power fantasies undermine that.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

When men get actual laser eyes and the ability to lift a tank, I'll be worried.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Are AR-15s close enough to laser eyes or do we need to be totally literal?

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

They already have the freedom to rape women, be found guilty, and spend only 3 months in prison, in protected custody, with full media access.

That's a much scarier super power than laser eyes.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Any man who doesn't live in self hate and fear is a bastard.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty much.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

You're either a troll, or a very poor excuse for a human being.

2/10

[raspberryrain]

What's a woman who doesn't live with depression and self-loathing, just for comparison?

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

You disgust me. Leave.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Everyone wants silly self indulgent stories.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

That doesn't mean those stories can never be harmful.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

True, but not everyone deserves them.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[herpymcderp]

I'd say not inherently. It becomes a problem when it becomes the default, though.

I mean... most writing has some kind of fantasy fulfillment. Whether it's a power fantasy, a sexual fantasy, a romance fantasy or something else totally depends on the genre. That doesn't mean it's limited to being a fulfillment of a fantasy and nothing else, but generally the function of fiction is to play out a concept that is interesting to both reader and author.

The problem arises when you look at a genre and there's nothing but power fantasy after power fantasy with nothing else that actually challenges a reader. That's when you sort of get an expectation that nothing bad can happen and the good guys always win and the good guys are always big brawny MANLY MEN... it's damaging to one's perception of their own masculinity as much as it is somewhat of an othering of men in general.

tl;dr It can be, but doesn't have to be.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Apparently everything under the sun is harmful. I'm bored.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[(Anonymous)]

Kind of, yeah

That's why we as humans have to do our best to be aware and intentional and tender and all that shit

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[kallanda_lee]

Well it is. None of us are getting out alive, in the end.

Re: Is "Male power fantasy" actually harmful

[dancingmouse]

Key word here "FANTASY"

No, it's not harmful, as long as no one's actually acting like that in real life. Same with any other kind of fantasy.