tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13848504.post4373884122594031053..comments2023-09-09T04:03:00.560-05:00Comments on The Fortress of Soliloquy: Power FantasiesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13848504.post-54715406427310027612011-07-14T02:38:49.941-05:002011-07-14T02:38:49.941-05:00Re: Female power fantasies: You could probably ana...Re: Female power fantasies: You could probably analyze the whole <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_girl" rel="nofollow">magical</a> <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MagicalGirl" rel="nofollow">girl</a> <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/SoYouWantTo/WriteAMagicalGirlSeries" rel="nofollow">genre</a> to see if you can pick out any fundamental differences from male power fantasies, along with western equivalents like Amethyst, She-Ra, Jem, etc. (Right off the bat, pimped-out frilly costumes seem to be a common thread.) You could write a thesis on Sailor Moon alone.Will Stapleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05102456593495895955noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13848504.post-41862250068196967822011-07-10T21:08:32.586-05:002011-07-10T21:08:32.586-05:00That's an interesting perspective, and one tha...That's an interesting perspective, and one that makes a lot of sense. It does suggest the existence (or possibility) of an anti-power fantasy story, where the appeal is that the character is so put-upon and powerless that the reader feels the catharsis of having a better life than that. <br /><br />The question then becomes whether or not different groups of people have different kinds of power fantasies. I suspect that the power fantasy of the child (to be a hero!) is different from the power fantasy of an adult (to do all the stuff I can't get away with!). So do men and women (on average) have different kinds of power fantasies? And how do they differ?Tom Fosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796424725228769265noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13848504.post-65612632859559585652011-07-10T20:57:25.081-05:002011-07-10T20:57:25.081-05:00All fictional stories are, at least partially, pow...All fictional stories are, at least partially, power fantasies. I believe this. Any story you read, you're fantasizing about being that person instead of being you, on some level. And all those characters have power: they have the power to not be you, to not care about the specific circumstances of your life, to get to deal with the more exotic demands of fiction instead of the quotidian details of reality.<br /><br />I think the superhero stories and the princess stories are just more obvious about it.<br /><br />Of course, if they're all power fantasies, then it becomes uninteresting to point out that any one story is a power fantasy. I believe that too.Matthew Ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01007497367844755093noreply@blogger.com