It's biological. Goes for most women, some just try to fight it because they have been taught it's bad.
I offer one proof: check out what type of men you will find in all the romance and erotica novels, movies and television series aimed at women that sell best. Well, they are pretty much all handsome millionaires or billionaires or otherwise on top of their society, but if you take that out, and just look at their behavior? Let's take the best known ones that were made into movies: 50 Shades of Grey, Twilight, if you go old school Gone With the Wind (still on top of most lists of movies that have made most money, because it just kept on selling for decades), Gabaldon's Outlander series, what is selling right now would be Bridgerton... now, how do those male love interests in those stories treat the POV female? Especially when they first meet, and she falls in love with him?
They most certainly don't take any crap from her. They dominate, often in the older novels even force themselves on her, and take charge. They may get a bit more interested when she shows that she does have a will of her own, but they never bend to her will.
And when it comes to how they deal with other men: they seem to be pretty much always the alpha types, able to lead and domineer men too.
And even our modern, self-sufficient "we don't need any men" women who pretend that they prefer the soy boy types in their life, will pay for those stories, devour them, sometimes in secret, and daydream about the type of men they will loudly condemn if anybody asks them in their day to day life. Those stories SELL.
It's biological. Goes for most women, some just try to fight it because they have been taught it's bad.
I offer one proof: check out what type of men you will find in all the romance and erotica novels, movies and television series aimed at women that sell best. Well, they are pretty much all handsome millionaires or billionaires or otherwise on top of their society, but if you take that out, and just look at their behavior? Let's take the best known ones that were made into movies: 50 Shades of Grey, Twilight, if you go old school Gone With the Wind (still on top of most lists of movies that have made most money, because it just kept on selling for decades), Gabaldon's Outlander series, what is selling rightnow would be Bridgerton... now, how do those male love interests in those stories treat the POV female? Especially when they first meet, and she falls in love with him?
They most certainly don't take any crap from her. They dominate, often in the older novels even force themselves on her, and take charge. They may get a bit more interested when she shows that she does have a will of her own, but they never bend to her will.
And when it comes to how they deal with other men: they seem to be pretty much always the alpha types, able to lead and domineer men too.
And even our modern, self-sufficient "we don't need any men" women who pretend that they prefer the soy boy types in their life, will pay for those stories, devour them, sometimes in secret, and daydream about the type of men they will loudly condemn if anybody asks them in their day to day life. Those stories SELL.