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F!S Anon Meme (the ??th)

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3. No dropping personal info or IRL contact info, etc.

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(Today's post is below.)

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, me too. I'm into hurting male characters. Except without the comfort afterwards, so it's twice as skeevy. I was still a teenager when I saw The Empire Strikes Back, and the Han torture scene. Since then it's a theme in what I like. It's the punchbag/chew toy male character of any ensemble that I'm drawn to.

With women, I want them super-capable, witty and perhaps Amazonian in build, which is just as embarrassing.

I think it's because it's pure fantasy? The same way that a lot of men are drawn to manic pixie girls and big muscled men in their narratives. I've stopped feeling so bad about it.

[(Anonymous)]

OP - yeah, good point about it being fantasy. In a lot of media, the male characters are heroic and strong, and the female ones are the... well, damsels. So it's a nice inversion to see male characters being victimized (and other male characters, given those aforementioned m/m ships being nurturing - the 'nurturer/healer' role is traditionally feminine as well) and the female characters being amazing heroic badasses.

(Also, I've always preferred Luke and want him to get All The Hugs after the encounter with Vader. Heh.)