Werewolves are just men with an excuse for cruelty
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I've been wondering, why do so many female fantasies revolve around werewolves, beasts that could rip them apart in an instance, with zero impulse control and anger issues... And then it dawned on me that they are the simple, distilled depiction of how some women see their male partners. There's a person, he has personality, aspirations and complex relationships, he is capable of caring and loving, and then there's a man inside him, and all his masculinity manifests in is something to carefully make your peace with, a wild animal, a natural disaster that you're stuck in a room with.
Even if one doesn't realise it, even if the man doesn't have that side at all, it is something etched in us from childhood. We expect cruelty and we expect that we'll be able to make our peace with it, sooner or later. And in our fantasy we want it to have an excuse, "he can't control himself" is the phrase from real life, and fantasy adds "because it's full moon". Danger from him is compensated with danger he can protect from, absent in real life. Female power fantasy is surviving the storm that a man is to reveal a person, which is exactly what Beauty and the Beast is about.
Maybe it was obvious to all but me but since I saw it I've been thinking about it and wanted to share