Nov 15, 2025
The popularity of deeply patriarchal romance conventions is entirely unsurprising and I dislike when it’s positioned exclusively as an individual failing on the part of politically backwards women who need to be re-educated so that their preferences in this area become more progressive (not likely achievable anyway). But unfortunately it’s incredibly unpopular in certain social media milieux to admit you enjoy something in fiction that’s an obvious product of the dominant ideology, hence incoherent takes like “Tolkien’s work is anti-imperialist” and “male monster x female human romance is uncomplicatedly feminist”