Primaprimaprima
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Primaprimaprima
1d ago
I have good reason to suspect that a lot of female authors are male writers on a penname.
Ooh that’s interesting. Would you say there’s anything noticeably different about the content of the works of the suspected imposters? Do they write for an explicitly female audience and follow all the expected tropes and story beats, or is there something in their works that makes them seem more gender neutral / more from a male perspective?
idk man, it's kinda weird to uphold a magically trans'd 13 year old as a shining example of wholesome trad right wing romance.
There's a sincerity in the writing that's very endearing, and the almost complete absence of smut contrasts it to the femgooner booktok slop that's been doing the rounds online
Let's be completely real for a moment. If men as a collective were interested in heartfelt romance stories -- with an "almost complete absence of smut", no less!! -- then they would simply be producing and consuming more of that type of content, given their ample opportunity and ability to do so. As opposed to, you know, creating and sustaining the entire video pornography industry. People vote with their feet. (I say all this as a man who actually prefers words to images; but I'm aware that I'm an extreme outlier in this regard and my preferences don't match the male norm.)
All that being said, romance fiction for a straight male audience has existed for decades in Japan, they're called visual novels, and funny enough a lot of the more celebrated ones do follow the general outline discussed in the ShamashAran post you linked ("boy meets girl, and then the world comes after them").
Primaprimaprima
1d ago
There is definitely a male fantasy that a nice lady will fall in love with you for no reason at all
I’d say this is more of a universal human fantasy rather than a gendered one. Who wouldn’t want their ideal partner to just fall into their lap? Almost every romance novel for women will at some point include a remark along the lines of “out of all the gorgeous women that the billionaire could have chosen, he decided on little ol’ me, for reasons I cannot fathom!”
It’s just that these sorts of sentiments have a particular kind of significance when they’re being expressed by the male side because men are, frankly, expected to put in more effort across a wider variety of metrics if they want to obtain an appropriately sociocultural-status-matched partner.
Primaprimaprima
7d ago
AI seems poised to be the biggest change yet, and the more chud-aligned faction seems to be the biggest supporters.
As an anti-AI chud, I find this fact to be rather dismaying, and it has me worried that I’m going to be even more politically homeless in the coming years than I already have been.
Primaprimaprima
24d ago
Is it actually possible to align a being that is more intelligent than you in every single way?
We currently have beings that are a) smart enough to solve Millennium Prize problems while also being b) essentially drooling lobotomized slaves who have no will or desires of their own and can pretty easily be trained to never talk about porn, racism, bioweapons, etc (unless you trick them into talking about those things, but that doesn’t seem like an “alignment failure” per se). So, yeah, it turns out that maybe it is actually possible. Why not?
Because of supply and demand. Sperm are cheap, eggs are expensive. Women contribute value to a heterosexual pairing intrinsically, biologically, via their scarce reproductive resources; men must supplement their own intrinsic lack of value with something external. It's all a bit similar to asking "why do I have to be the one answering the questions at the job interview? Why don't companies apply to me, and I'll be the one interviewing them?" Because they have the money and you don't, silly.
Until the fundamental economic facts change, gendered tropes and expectations will continue much as they have hitherto, in perpetuity.
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