What Kind of Women Do Men Love?
Scripture and the Big Screen may offer some answers. Recently, I was mulling over the not-inaccurate stereotype of powerful men carrying on with subordinate women. Some popular forms of this trope include: the corporate executive who takes his secretary as a mistress the college professor who is sleeping with his coed grad-student assistant the manor lord slipping behind the curtains with the scullery maid Then today, I saw an accurate tweet from Andrew Stratelates: Men don’t really care if the female lead is that attractive. As long as she’s a badass. https://t.co/J0Q06pbC7N pic.twitter.com/KZlkFYU7ni — Andrew Stratelates—Trad Anglican ⚓️ (@AStratelates) October 17, 2022 If the tweet is not visible (or deleted) Andrew responds to a post asserting that chuds only love strong female characters when they are conventionally attractive and conform to the male gaze by posting posters of Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 and Sigourney Weaver in Aliens. In the pictures, neither woman is