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There's some point to be made about SJM type books being like "you can be strong AND feminine" as though there was ever an overwhelming amount of strong masculine female characters and the slow rise of tradwives and girl math and the feminine divine and pink jobs. And I won't say that SJM and booktok are to blame for what is clearly a result of rising fascism and myriad other factors, but I also won't say it has helped it any.

Like it's really funny to look back on all the "um yeah Throne of Glass is soooo revolutionary because Sardines is both strong AND feminine" defenses now in the TikTok tradwife era where it's SO empowering to quit your job and go home and stay there and cook and clean and get fucked and get pregnant :) THAT is the true sign of FEMININE STRENGTH. Like wow how convenient! That doing the thing the patriarchal regime wants you to do is the revolutionary option. How interesting!! How fortunate!!! Quick, all women, CHOOSE this option please!! The option that benefits the powers that be!! It's totally soooo empowering!

It's really kinda sad. Men are being brainwashed by Tates and women are being brainwashed by faes and alphas parroting back the same ideologies but coming from a female mouth and coated with "empowering" language, so it skates by much easier. Like a violent rapist/sex offender saying women need to suck dick and stay at home is misogynist. But your Empowered Divine Feminine protagonists "choosing" to suck dick and have babies while her man rules the country? That's just her choice. It's super empowering and radical actually. And while those two sources would say they're in opposition, fundamentally they advocate for the same things. It's kinda wild. But of course if you point this out it's "um it's just a book sweaty!! nobody actually believes these things or adjusts their behavior according to fiction!! haha grow up we're all adults here!!"

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Nesta was groomed, yet the fandom insisted she wasn’t. She was abused, but they denied it. She was assaulted, but they claimed "almost assaulted" didn’t count. She was traumatized, yet they said it had been too long—she should just get over it. She protected herself and Elain with sharp words and a hardened expression, and they called her a mean ungrateful bitch. She was bound to a mate who prioritized his brother over her comfort, and somehow the fandom called that a good thing. Nesta was a child too, yet they hated her for not bearing more of the burden instead of Feyre.

This fandom doesn’t deserve a layered female character. They can stomach someone as obnoxious as Feyre, who thinks she’s the best thing that ever happened to the NC despite being unable to govern. But Nesta? Nesta is too much. Too ungrateful. Too bitchy. Too strong. Her trauma response annoys their favorite character(s) and for that, she deserves to be hated.

This fandom is childish and shallow, and it’s no wonder so many of them can’t enjoy high fantasy literature, stuck at ACOTAR level writing. High fantasy doesn’t always tell you what to feel and think. I bet they don’t enjoy having to decide that for themselves.

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