But..tv shows like Breaking Bad? Where power is achieved through increased violence...and in the real world? Walt would in prison or dead.
Naja, not sure it's the best example. Because in BB the negative consequences of power through violence are shown in every detail and I am fairly certain the show will end with Walt dead or in prison. It's more slowly describing the way there. The consequences are not ignored.
The Boddice Rippers - which I have a feeling are the ones that pushed your buttons?
I think the books I'm thinking of would be categorized as that, yes. They really did not leave any room to call it anything else but rape. It was only backwardly glorified rape that ended with marriage.
The Pern series is for example nothing I would categorize as romance, so maybe we are also regarding wildly different fields here.
fantasy is an escape from it and we're smart enough to know the difference. At least most of us are.
Are most of us? Where romance is concerned? I guess that is why I find them so triggery because while downright fantasy/scifi etc. is known to be unreal by almost all it's readers,I see many people who buy into the romance type fantasies in the sense that many women focus themselves entirely around the male gaze and self objectify massively in order to achieve something with those imagined "weapons of a woman".
I guess if I could see it as just fantasies that no one buys I would be more bored and less bothered. But for that I see too many women with really skewered views of themselves.
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Naja, not sure it's the best example. Because in BB the negative consequences of power through violence are shown in every detail and I am fairly certain the show will end with Walt dead or in prison. It's more slowly describing the way there. The consequences are not ignored.
The Boddice Rippers - which I have a feeling are the ones that pushed your buttons?
I think the books I'm thinking of would be categorized as that, yes. They really did not leave any room to call it anything else but rape. It was only backwardly glorified rape that ended with marriage.
The Pern series is for example nothing I would categorize as romance, so maybe we are also regarding wildly different fields here.
fantasy is an escape from it and we're smart enough to know the difference. At least most of us are.
Are most of us? Where romance is concerned? I guess that is why I find them so triggery because while downright fantasy/scifi etc. is known to be unreal by almost all it's readers,I see many people who buy into the romance type fantasies in the sense that many women focus themselves entirely around the male gaze and self objectify massively in order to achieve something with those imagined "weapons of a woman".
I guess if I could see it as just fantasies that no one buys I would be more bored and less bothered. But for that I see too many women with really skewered views of themselves.