Baba Yaga:
If you don't like it, oh well. Better speak to the manager about it, Karen.
This has literally nothing to do with the entitlement and unjustified anger of a "Karen."
Regarding biglunch's assertion of "no misogyny here," I couldn't disagree more. The problem seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding of what misogyny actually means. It's denotation is the hatred, dislike or mistrust of women based on the very fact that they are women. Whether a conscious choice or not, the story in question undeniably has misogynistic undertones if not blatant overtones. The main antogonist is a woman cast as past her prime, in accordance with the societal expectation that women must remain young, beautiful, and conventionally attractive to maintain any semblence of validity. This character is simultaneously vilified for not wanting to have children and ends up being "punished" with pregnancy. Villainizing women who choose not to have kids is textbook misogyny as it frames a woman's lack of desire to procreate as inherently wrong. In relation to societal gender biases, men who don't want children are never villified in the same way. Similarly, nor are men with jobs and children ever questioned about who's home taking care of the kids or how they manage to balance their work and home lives. Ultimately, women are burdened with the expectation that they be relegated to the domestic sphere and when they're not, their competency outside the home is questioned due to their supposed duties of childrearing.
Regardless of this site's primary function as a safe place/online community for and celebration of this fetish, I think Hanselswitch's point (and forgive me if I'm wrong) is that the story peddles in societal stereotypes of women and villifies a character expressly because she exists outside the parameters of acceptable femininity and what quantifies a "proper woman."
