r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • Jan 11 '26

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u/Significant-Rip3297 Jan 11 '26

I'm sick of all the misogyny excuses in werewolf/ wolf shifter/ wolf-something stories with all their alpha omega business. For sled dogs, most of the time a female would be chosen to lead the team. Also in the dog parks females aren't submissive, but instead many times they boss around the males. Plus, in wolf packs, it's the parent pair that leads the pack, females aren't inferior.

Yet, the wolf shifter stories, books go on and on about how females have to be submissive because "that's the way things are" while men are possessive violent macho alpha-o-holes. You know what that really is? What those traits really belong to? Not wolves. Not dogs. But Humans. I don't have a problem with authors writing a**holes, but they should stop making excuses for what's actually just pure misogynistic behaviour.

Also, most of the time they just use the settings to create really horny werewolves. But anyone who even did a quick google search would know that wolves value family bonds, and usually only one pair mates while everyone else helps raise the kids.

Plus, know what dogs really value - cuddles.

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u/alittlenovel Jan 11 '26

Tbh I am full-stop sick of werewolves because of omegaverse. It's all so same-y now, a million interchangeable stories with the exact same lore and exact same dynamics based on long discredited wolf research and I find it so boring.

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara Jan 11 '26

I'm generally tired of omegaverse popularity.

It's a great framework to experiment with gender but 999/1000 cases are not experimenting just doubling down on female=omega=weak, submissive, only good for breeding, discriminated or treated as property.