Empowering women ideas

[MiaBabe23]

So wanting to write something on empowering women - though not at the expense of disempowering guys, guess ideally everyone would be empowered

Anyone seen anything interesting or have any ideas?


(Just so the comment below makes sense lol; originally this thread commented on a deleted thread - not gonna fuss about that, just gonna focus on the interesting stuff)

 

[JMJ4Play]

Turning slut for MAGA is fun though!

 

[MiaBabe23]

No it is not! But thanks for getting a bad idea out the way

 

[Rob_Royale]

I think (and write accordingly) that any story where a woman has total agency and is depicted as capable and intelligent, is empowering. I think my recent husband/wife story, Fancy Meeting You, fits the bill nicely.

 

[ericrodman101]

The question is whether women are empowered by behaving more like empowered men, or is female empowerment different from or even the opposite of male empowerment. For example, is a reverse gangbang, say, where multiple women fuck a guy, female empowerment? Women with strapons? Women as the sexual initiators? Or do women behave differently from men when empowered? Women seeking sensual rather than animalistic sex, say. I think both directions are fine, it's just deciding which form of female empowerment you choose.

 

[MikeXIrons]

The question is whether women are empowered by behaving more like empowered men, or is female empowerment different from or even the opposite of male empowerment. For example, is a reverse gangbang, say, where multiple women fuck a guy, female empowerment? Women with strapons? Women as the sexual initiators? Or do women behave differently from men when empowered? Women seeking sensual rather than animalistic sex, say. I think both directions are fine, it's just deciding which form of female empowerment you choose.

I was going to ask a similar question, though in a different way. It's obvious what ideas to discard as NOT fitting your request (e.g. rape, etc), but I'd love to hear a woman's point of view on characteristics that DO fit.

Simply swapping roles seems misguided as mentioned above. Flipping the rape from man-woman to woman-man probably isn't what you're after I assume? That's just power, not empowerment.

Less dramatically, is a woman CEO who acts like a "typical" man what you're looking for? Cheating on her spouse with the young stud hoping to get ahead in the company?

Similarly, an empowered man might seduce a woman, pursuing her with his charm and actions. Would an "empowered" woman similarly choose to pursue a man, planning and executing her "conquest"? Or would the "empowered" woman be captivating enough to get the attention of the empowered man such that he feels compelled to chase her?

It's along the lines of discussions about feminism & feminists. Do they want the right to act like MEN have always acted? Or do they want the right to act like whatever kind of woman they aspire to be? And how much overlap is there in that venn diagram?

 

[StillStunned]

Have you checked out the stories from the annual Pink Orchid event? It's about writing woman-centric erotica.

My entry this year was The Walled Garden.

 

[Carnevil9]

I have a series of stories called Hand Job Slut. It's about a college woman who has everything going wrong for her, especially her finances. Finally, as she hits rock bottom, she sits down and thinks very logically about her strengths, her weaknesses, and her opportunities. She decides to put her business major to good use and starts a hand-job for money business. She soon starts making plenty of money, and has many happy customers. She gets empowered by her own grit and determination, and everyone else in the story is happy, too.

 

[DarkSollat]

How about writing a woman who isn't stuffed with dick a second after some cock is shown to her?

 

[The_Carrie]

So wanting to write something on empowering women - though not at the expense of disempowering guys, guess ideally everyone would be empowered

Anyone seen anything interesting or have any ideas?


(Just so the comment below makes sense lol; originally this thread commented on a deleted thread - not gonna fuss about that, just gonna focus on the interesting stuff)

I have one waiting to be published, and check out my others under "The_Caroline"

 

[MiaBabe23]

Have you checked out the stories from the annual Pink Orchid event? It's about writing woman-centric erotica.

My entry this year was The Walled Garden.

I hadn’t, thanks for the recommendation

 

[MiaBabe23]

How about writing a woman who isn't stuffed with dick a second after some cock is shown to her?

How about you take your finger out your ass and read what the point of the thread is?

 

[MiaBabe23]

I have one waiting to be published, and check out my others under "The_Caroline"

Thank you, I’ll have a look

 

[MiaBabe23]

I have a series of stories called Hand Job Slut. It's about a college woman who has everything going wrong for her, especially her finances. Finally, as she hits rock bottom, she sits down and thinks very logically about her strengths, her weaknesses, and her opportunities. She decides to put her business major to good use and starts a hand-job for money business. She soon starts making plenty of money, and has many happy customers. She gets empowered by her own grit and determination, and everyone else in the story is happy, too.

I can see the inclusion of empowerment elements within the erotic focus, thank you
For my personal tastes, it feels a bit disempowering if this doesn’t at least lead to her then having a choice on whether to continue or stop
But! I haven’t read it yet, so will give it a look, thanks

 

[The_Carrie]

Thank you, I’ll have a look

I hope you enjoy it Mia!

 

[Andreas_Kreuz]

My take on an empowered woman story is https://www.literotica.com/s/ricochet-1

 

[stretch351]

I have one waiting to be published, and check out my others under "The_Caroline"

Can you post a link to your stories please?

 

[NotUnperson]

She’s a big-shot CEO from the big city. He’s a Christmas tree farmer/vendor in a small town. When she gets stranded, their worlds collide.

 

[The_Carrie]

She’s a big-shot CEO from the big city. He’s a Christmas tree farmer/vendor in a small town. When she gets stranded, their worlds collide.

This sounds like a sexy Hallmark movie.

 

[The_Carrie]

Can you post a link to your stories please?

Thanks for asking Stretch! Here's the first 3: https://www.literotica.com/authors/The_Caroline/works/stories

and the most recent: https://www.literotica.com/s/looking-backwards-pt-04

 

[NoTalentHack]

This thread highlights the problem with determining what is/isn't empowering. Don't get me wrong; that's not a complaint. It's a useful discussion to have. However, I find that a lot of the sort of trappings of empowerment (female POV, passing the Bechdel test, "strong woman" characters, etc.) are often just that: trappings.

I write mostly in Loving Wives, in the marital drama subgenre, i.e., not much of the category's original swinging/swapping/extramarital fun to be found. While I try to make well-drawn characters, especially the women (a rarity there, I'm sorry to say), that doesn't necessarily make them "empowered," and the ones I write are even less likely to be so if written from the FMC's perspective.

Ellie in Funeral Dirge for a Fairytale is the POV character, but she's relatively passive; she's manipulated by her toxic first boyfriend and basically falls assbackwards into her happy ending, but she's also self-aware enough to know that by the end. The Voice of Experience is all about compulsions and addictions; the only speaking characters in it are both women, but one is essentially telling the other a cautionary tale about her many, many infidelities due to a compulsion/addiction she only ultimately escaped through medication. Neither of those strikes me as particularly empowering.

On the other hand, I have four stories in othr categories that are all from the male POV, but which still have themes I'd consider empowering to the female characters. A Very Long Engagement has the standard "younger sister/older brother" I/T setup, but it's the sister that's the prime mover in the relationship, although that doesn't become entirely clear until later. Longings from the Past has a May/December romance wherein the younger woman in it is (sort of) the pursuer, while the older one resists the temptation of trying to have anything more than a platonic relationship until the end.

Moving into a "harder" edge, Forever Bound is about a reluctant male Dom and his enthusiastic sub wife, and the evolution of their relationship; he changes for her far more than she changes for him. Grace Restored looks like a straight up noncon story when it begins, especially if you don't pay attention to the details, but which turns out to be a CNC session requested by the FMC to help her process the abuse she received when she was younger.

That brings me to "growth after abuse" as a theme. Abuse obviously isn't empowering, but can a story containing it be? I'd say yes in the case of Meat Market, a pretty standard female-POV romance about a divorcee meeting a widower, forming a friendship, and leaving the bar scene behind; I don't know so much about Medusa's Daughter, where the FMC essentially becomes a mad scientist, even if it is tagged with "femdom," "revenge," "facesitting," and "cfnm."

The nameless protagonist of Before We Talked has all the agency in the story, but she doesn't get what she actually wants at the end. Is that still empowering? What about Kylie in New Year, New Experience? She's undeniably in control of her sexuality, gets everything she wants by the end of the story, and has a great time doing it, but she still has to undertake a ton of emotional labor getting the MMC into the right headspace to achieve all of that. Where does that fall?

I think if I took a survey with checkboxes that said "Empowering, Yes/No?" for all of these, I'd find every possible configuration. What's empowering to some is disempowering to others.

 

[NotUnperson]

This sounds like a sexy Hallmark movie.

Yes, that’s what I was going for. The best part? You can use the same plot about 800 times!

Also, the guy’s a divorced dad, and his adorable kid and/or puppy has cancer.

 

[The_Carrie]

Yes, that’s what I was going for. The best part? You can use the same plot about 800 times!

Also, the guy’s a divorced dad, and his adorable kid and/or puppy has cancer.

Probably both Kid and Puppy!

 

[b7ffh1]

https://www.literotica.com/s/modest-woman-1984

This is about a very conservative, newly married pastor's daughter who ends up finding a strip search to be very empowering (despite it being very embarrassing).

 

[Kitty_so_frisky]

I’ve been rewatching Scandal (from Grey’s Anatomy and Bridgerton creator Shonda Rhimes, so you know it’s sexually charged), and the main character, Olivia Pope played by Kerry Washington, seems like a prime example of an empowered (if not perfect) woman. She runs a Washington DC team of “fixers” (most with law degrees, some with secret agent experience) who solve problems, often taking on high-powered government officials, a shadowy secret agency, murderers and terrorists.

More relevant to the question posed in this thread, she is powerful both inside the bedroom and out. She pulls strings in DC, she values her own time, she sets boundaries, she is pursued by the most powerful man on the planet, and instead of being at his beck and call or waiting around at home alone for him, she explores other options and demands that he EARN her.