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Because Attack of the 50 Foot Woman turned giant women into a symbol of feminism, making it something palpable to the general public, while giants… aren’t.

It gives giantess as a concept a foothold in the public imagination to start from, and then just showing skin is enough to get a lot of guys into it because, well, boobs.

Meanwhile, the equivalent is Incredible Shrinking Man, so the concept of a giant man doesn’t have much to go on beyond ‘big movie monster’, and honestly the giant man adjacent concepts have basically been absorbed into King Kong, since the pre-Monsterverse versions have him grabbing and prizing a tiny woman in all the ways you’d expect.

It’s something I’ve seen in a few stories, but it’s something I can never get into, personally, because for most SW sizes it feels like just killing them with extra steps.

And don’t get me wrong, it’s treated like that sometimes, but a lot of the time I see butt crush where the person is under a quarter of their size, if not measured in inches or less, and they get away without a scratch, and when that happens it just takes me out of the scenario.

Am I missing something? Is this not the death sentence I thought it was?

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5v_rYKeNS8I

…but it’s amazing how SW the comments on this get.

A little research tells me this is a hack and slash game, tbr, where the fairy tale princess rise up and take back their happy endings by the sword. Or axe. And considering that they’re rising up against the evil stepmothers… yeah. I get the vibe that that fanservice is in ever inch of this game.

Sadly, though, unless the fairy godmother character returns in the actual game, this is probably all the SW that will feature.

@TakoAlice8
Because they’re going to go swimming! Swimming in ice cream is not only delicious, but it’s great for keeping fit as well.

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…Don’t worry about the spoon it’s fine.

@TakoAlice8

Random question: maple syrup, whipped cream, or barbecue sauce?

One of the eternal classics of the SW is the woman in food: from mud wrestling on a syrupy waffle to coated in chocolate or whipped cream… you gotta love it.

What’s your food woman of choice? Or what food do you like being dropped into?

Around? Sure. Active… not so much. We’re missing that critical mass of people talking to keep discussion of any form going past a day or two.

Honestly, I get the vibe giants are more common because a giant guy is a rare but still existent movie monster.

It puts the concept into people’s minds. Meanwhile, SWs have been phased out, if anything, probably because some people think it’s offensive to women and a larger portion are afraid people will think it’s offensive to women.

Ao3 has a, well, vibrant fetish community, from what I’ve seen. The tagging system I think is how the justification of that works, but you can also hide bookmarks on a ‘public’ account if you’re there for more normal stories.

I know there are shrink stories, I’ve bookmarked quite a few (and a ASMR from a script from littleestlily, who is here), but SW still isn’t that common a story there, either.

@xformbob said in Personality in Fantasy vs IRL:

This topic is a little old, but the board seems quiet like folks have moved on to other place and I figure I might as well see who is still listening.

A community needs a certain critical mass of people to be active; people responding to people sparking responses and so on. Our community is so small and have to be quiet about or interests so we have trouble keeping forums active in the way another fetish does, but people will keep tabs as long as it remains around.

Dehumanize her.

“Oh, are you too weak to lift up your own dress? Pathetic.”

"You can’t even reach the doorknob? You really are pitiful. Here, let me do that for you, surely you can take care of it from there, right?

What’s that? You still can’t do it? You can’t get down?"

“You can’t cook, you can’t clean, you can’t even open a door. What can you do? Anything? Can you even be considered a person when you’re that helpless?”

Welcome! Always good to get new life in these places.

@Calypsa
Honestly, a lot of what I’m interested in is usually a subversion of the classic SW tropes: she shrinks, but she’s into it before the man is, or actively did it to herself. I’m growing, but she’s doing to me, or is the one who is excited about it.

I like… the push pull, where both sides have some levers on the other, even if it’s just on emotional manipulation or something, making both ends of the equation active, if unequal, actors. If it’s just the basic ‘bigger person grabs smaller one, sex’, it’s… bland, almost? The situation, the relationship, that dynamic, flavors it.

In the same way, I’m interested in levels of dehumanization, but it can go too far, because it’s the fact that they are people that make it so interesting. If you reduce the woman to just an object, so much of what makes everything special is gone; it’s like you’ve replaced a gem with a Christmas light.

Ah, another for the ‘Ace but weirdly and deeply into a really kinky fetish you probably can’t ever explain to anyone normal camp’. Welcome!

Yeah, I’m not quite the exact same as you, I like all the girly bits, and dicks are… ugh. Not interested, but good/tolerable in limited quantities? How they’re used to present the women?

I’ve never really had any interest in sex, but I feel like, in some way, I grew out of even my fetish-y interest in sex? The power dynamics and relationships and so on interest me, and the sex is general just kind of folded in there (not even getting into the 'are women even into this??? that gets in my head at times).

Regardless, these days I’m more interested in cuddling and actually sleeping together, though I figure at least part of that is the all consuming exhaustion thing.