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Controversial gaming opinion: video games are good.
Well, that's silly of them, frankly. Part of the fantasy is being attractive, and sometimes being attractive is plenty when it comes to wanting to draw porn or whatever. Arguing that no women are attracted to, say, Chris Evans as Steve Rogers or whatever because Steve Rogers is a power fantasy is taking the reasonable argument that he's not sexualized in the same way women often are to an unreasonable conclusion.But I wasn't talking about my position, I was talking about seeing people who would flat-out say "No woman is attracted to this dude." No reference to presentation, no qualifiers, no respect for women as individuals with varying tastes and interests (to borrow some sarcasm from my favorite feminist blogger, 'almost like people!')... basically, sexist jerks, but they were kinda noisy and hard to avoid.
Actually I am very curious, because... see my comment about venn diagrams.
That's not really fully accurate to what I'm saying - my first example of the 50 Shades movie involved Christian being a dominant partner in a (very toxic, very unhealthy, basically abusive) BDSM relationship.I think that the best way to sum it up is that virtually no media portrays men as subs and/or bottoms.
Being Monster Hunter, and as FFXIV did it in the same way, "cutting tails" just means the tail pops off bloodlessly with a cartoonish cross-section. (There are also gameplay effects, but that's tangential to the point.) But according to ratings boards, dismemberment is dismemberment.
It is not as well remembered as its older sibling, but Rule 36 of the Internet is still applicable.When ever someone says "no X would be attracted to Y", it canbe safely be assumed that either they are exaggerating for effect, or just plain wrong.
I don't know where you all are getting "no one would be attracted to X" from. Every time I've seen it used it's been in the context of pointing out that there's more that goes into the character design then just innocent fanservice for the guys/gals/etc.
I see somewhat the opposite. In female-oriented media, heroines are rarely portrayed or coded as dominant. There are examples of equal relationships, more assertive or sick modest characters, toI think that the best way to sum it up is that virtually no media portrays men as subs and/or bottoms.
I'm... pretty sure it wouldn't really matter what method you used to measure it, you wouldn't find femdom to be particularly common in any general genre? Like, I've been online for decades, I work in a library, I read voraciously -- my media consumption is fairly specific but exposure is pretty goddamn wide at this point, partially because it's literally part of my job.
Sexually dominant female characters exist, but outside of fairly specific fetish niches they're very much not nearly as common as other options, and that remains pretty darn true across, like... every permutation of genre and author gender I've encountered, in every sort of media I'm aware of. Submissive men are also at least as rare, especially as anything approaching a main character.
I don't think it's actually difficult to get a universal enough overview of popular entertainment in general to say which one is more common, because this is one issue where it's both very obvious and very, very pervasive.
I'll take your word for it. I just wanted to point out that people can receive very different impressions based on their own consumption of media, which can be skewed. I mean, let's be honest, even you are just a single person and your day has 24 hours, just like everyone else's. There are factual, hard limits on how many things you can actually see, even if you spent 18 hours a day doing nothing but reading or watching TV shows. It's a fact of life.I'm... pretty sure it wouldn't really matter what method you used to measure it, you wouldn't find femdom to be particularly common in any general genre? Like, I've been online for decades, I work in a library, I read voraciously -- my media consumption is fairly specific but exposure is pretty goddamn wide at this point, partially because it's literally part of my job.
That'd be basically the sole exception (with m/m stuff going with sub men), and existing as a(n unfortunately still too damn small!) subset of general romance writing. Wasn't thinking of it as a broader genre, basically, heh.Just. Read stuff with lesbians in it? Romance books and lesbian erotica are both necessarily gonna have a woman taking a more active role in the relationship at some point, yeah?
I mean, yes, if you require omniscience to be the baseline for this kind of observation, yeah, there's not much room for it, heh.I just wanted to point out that people can receive very different impressions based on their own consumption of media, which can be skewed. I mean, let's be honest, even you are just a single person and your day has 24 hours, just like everyone else's. There are factual, hard limits on how many things you can actually see, even if you spent 18 hours a day doing nothing but reading or watching TV shows. It's a fact of life.
Well, that is true and I was hardly claiming the opposite. *shrug*Some stuff really is just kind of incredibly pervasive, though. This particular issue is one you'd have to be, like, actively curating to avoid to miss how common it is, and I'm not even sure that would be enough. You don't exactly just trip over a preponderance of femdom or male sub material in your media consumption, and you very much do trip over the inverse.
in response to criticism about her design prerelease and then the secret reason for her exposure was just that she breathes through her skin.
I have some respect for him but not for being honest about being horny.If you've ever found yourself saying 'I respect Yoko Taro for being honest about it' ask yourself this: would you extend the same latitude to Takaki Kanichiro, the creator of Senran Kagura?![]()
My vagueish vibes is that females in works aimed at females can be aggressive but not dominant because the first is being proactive in relationship matters and the second is how they like their relationships to proceed and the majority of females like being 'sub' (for a very broad definition of that term) and so wouldn't be interested in a dominant female protag. Which ends up that femdom stuff is either aimed at lesbians (on account that if you want any kind of dom/sub relationship you have to pick one of the girls) and at works aimed at men (I'm less sure why on this but there clearly is a market)I'm... pretty sure it wouldn't really matter what method you used to measure it, you wouldn't find femdom to be particularly common in any general genre? Like, I've been online for decades, I work in a library, I read voraciously -- my media consumption is fairly specific but exposure is pretty goddamn wide at this point, partially because it's literally part of my job.
Sexually dominant female characters exist, but outside of fairly specific fetish niches they're very much not nearly as common as other options, and that remains pretty darn true across, like... every permutation of genre and author gender I've encountered, in every sort of media I'm aware of. Submissive men are also at least as rare, especially as anything approaching a main character.
I don't think it's actually difficult to get a universal enough overview of popular entertainment in general to say which one is more common, because this is one issue where it's both very obvious and very, very pervasive.