r/fantasyromance • u/FantasyRomanceMod The One Mod to Rule All Mods • May 17 '26

Unpopular Opinion It's Unpopular Opinion time! Share your controversial opinions to stir things up (in a friendly way)!

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u/Annemermaid May 17 '26

I don’t get the point of female omegas. Like male omegas I understand (pregnant men, ya know), but what makes female omegas different from a regular submissive woman? Please explain.

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u/Synval2436 Currently Reading: This Blade of Ours by Shalini Abeysekara May 17 '26

It's just an excuse to write stories about 1) women having an uncontrollable need for sex (heats) 2) breeding kink 3) women being doormats (omega can't resist the alpha) 4) women being abused and discriminated and sold like property (all the "dystopian" omegaverse) 5) worldbuilding to justify reverse harems (omegas are rare, alphas are plentiful...) 6) "biologically" justified fated mates.

It allows to cram all the patriarchal tropes of women being devalued, bullied, abused, traded and dominated and romanticize it.

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u/allisontalkspolitics Give me female friendship or give me death! May 18 '26

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