Are we going to say that the guy having a literal harem of waifus with highly sexualized designs wasn’t for misogynistic male-gaze/male sexual fantasy purposes and instead was the totally authentic expression of personal sexual agency of the three fictional women in a totally egalitarian polycule? Why’s is almost always polygyny, anyway?
I’ll be the first to admit that the interpersonal dynamic between wives and husband here is less bad than in many harems, but that’s a really low bar and there’s still a clear pecking order, and again also the male gaze thing. Honestly, it’s an issue where I don’t think you could even rewrite their lines to fix without just remaking part of the anime.
because straight men are looking for water in a desert and tend to have minimal prospects or options, while straight women are bombarded with a deluge of toxic waste looking for something safe.
there is some “reverse-harem” but it’s probably cuckold stuff more often than the woman as the POV character.
It was a rhetorical question and the answer was: Because these are all male sexual fantasies that have a subtextual interest in treating women as livestock that worships you, and there is no symmetry in these fantasies between men and women where polyandry (or a more gender-equal polycule) could even be conceivable.
There are totally “reverse-harem” examples, but they are almost all targeting a female audience and, while I think those deserve criticism too, I think it’s not quite as bad or objectifying, it rarely has the same subtext of ownership except as a gag. I agree that male-targeted straight polyandry is going to just be cuckoldry fetish stuff most of the time even in the rare case it appears at all.
Are we going to say that the guy having a literal harem of waifus with highly sexualized designs wasn’t for misogynistic male-gaze/male sexual fantasy purposes and instead was the totally authentic expression of personal sexual agency of the three fictional women in a totally egalitarian polycule? Why’s is almost always polygyny, anyway?
I’ll be the first to admit that the interpersonal dynamic between wives and husband here is less bad than in many harems, but that’s a really low bar and there’s still a clear pecking order, and again also the male gaze thing. Honestly, it’s an issue where I don’t think you could even rewrite their lines to fix without just remaking part of the anime.
because straight men are looking for water in a desert and tend to have minimal prospects or options, while straight women are bombarded with a deluge of toxic waste looking for something safe.
there is some “reverse-harem” but it’s probably cuckold stuff more often than the woman as the POV character.
It was a rhetorical question and the answer was: Because these are all male sexual fantasies that have a subtextual interest in treating women as livestock that worships you, and there is no symmetry in these fantasies between men and women where polyandry (or a more gender-equal polycule) could even be conceivable.
There are totally “reverse-harem” examples, but they are almost all targeting a female audience and, while I think those deserve criticism too, I think it’s not quite as bad or objectifying, it rarely has the same subtext of ownership except as a gag. I agree that male-targeted straight polyandry is going to just be cuckoldry fetish stuff most of the time even in the rare case it appears at all.