I don’t find the slave dynamic in on itself a problem. When looking at cheap romances, it is filled with dangerous power dynamic even when aimed at women. Example, the infamous 50ShadesOfGray.
I take more of an issue with how the slaves fall in love with the bare minimum of effort and how despite otherwise portraying a monogamous culture the slave is fine with being one out of a dozen in the owners harem.
I don’t find the slave dynamic in on itself a problem
Well, I do, and so does any reasonable person. Why are you such a freak?
They probably think BDSM is actually how people would like to live IRL and not just a sexual kink. You’ll find a lot of this in hentai/doujin and can’t distinguish between a fetish/fantasy and how things actually work IRL.
Basicaly their rationale is “I’ve seen rape slave porn before, therefore slavery is fine right guys? Surely if they’re enjoying it this much…”
If you wanna see a web comic that actively calls out this kinda shit, I can’t recommend ‘This Isekai Maid is Starting a Union’ enough.
And if you wanna see the complete opposite, try subjecting yourself to Kuma Kuma Bear, the whole thing is just the author’s neoliberal power trip. It hasn’t gotten to the point of slavery (yet) but apparently child labor is fair game and God really loves you only if you accumulate wealth.
apparently child labor is fair game and God really loves you only if you accumulate wealth.
tbf it seems the character is introducing (an idealistic sanitized version of) early stage capitalism within a fantasy feudal society so it can be a progressive force by comparison but yeah, I get what you mean.
If this is the grizz that runs the r/konosuba discord they used to be extremely right wing so this would be a very significant shift leftwards for them.
