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Reign: Hard vs. Soft Power [4/???]

#in every fandom i know the setup on the right is greeted with oohs and aahs of look how much power mary has #and i love how seeing the real thing juxtaposed with it highlights the fundamental inherent fallacy #it’s called soft power for a reason 

#that’s the thing about scenes where a man ‘grants’ his female love interest ‘equality’ #like they’re always touted as ~empowering for the woman #like when francis told mary that it was better for them to ‘rule as equals’ in this ep #but isn’t there something fucked up about a setup where the man has the power to do that in the first place? #where he gets to decide whether or not a woman is worth treating ’as his equal’? #that’s not equality #and what can be given can also be taken away (ofc when this happens fandom says it’s ooc or bad writing rme ) #as frary demonstrated on multiple occasions

#i’m just saying why do people go so much by what the man in a ship says #when assessing the power balance in the dynamic #without considering what a fundamental flaw it is that it’s up to him in the first place #and all this holds regardless of francis’s personality or intentions #the setup itself is unfair to begin with #no woman would ever say that to her male love interest; because it would be a given; taken for granted #not to mention it wouldn’t be up to her in the first place