Also extremely prevalent and annoying: infantilization of female characters though obviously this can span literally every genre
The worst stories I ever read make the highest qualified women in the setting pretty much exist and be there because of how great their fathers were. The very worst then have her sexually crave some ego insert middle aged male character for resembling the absent father. :kombucha-disgust:
People write their fantasies, and unfortunately many authors are mediocre men whose fantasy is to come across a woman who is way out of their league but she’s too traumatized or socially unaware to know it.
A lot of the time part of that fantasy involves wanting the out-of-league-and-much-younger feeemale to see the ego-insert middle-aged power fantasy boot-brained dudebro as both a fuck buddy and a father figure.
Yes yes I try not to kink shame if two consenting adults are actually into that, but for most authors that do that it's just them cranking it figuratively onto the page and it screams of a one-sided blend of sexual pathology and angst about their own children or lack thereof. :grillman: :libertarian-alert:
The worst stories I ever read make the highest qualified women in the setting pretty much exist and be there because of how great their fathers were. The very worst then have her sexually crave some ego insert middle aged male character for resembling the absent father. :kombucha-disgust:
People write their fantasies, and unfortunately many authors are mediocre men whose fantasy is to come across a woman who is way out of their league but she’s too traumatized or socially unaware to know it.
A lot of the time part of that fantasy involves wanting the out-of-league-and-much-younger feeemale to see the ego-insert middle-aged power fantasy boot-brained dudebro as both a fuck buddy and a father figure.
Yes yes I try not to kink shame if two consenting adults are actually into that, but for most authors that do that it's just them cranking it figuratively onto the page and it screams of a one-sided blend of sexual pathology and angst about their own children or lack thereof. :grillman: :libertarian-alert: