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<blockquote data-quote="Dinkeldog" data-source="post: 969365" data-attributes="member: 195">What has the discussion on whether it's possible for a woman to rescue a man and feel romantically attracted got to have anything to do with biological structural differences between sexes (gender is an inappropriate term here)?You can posit that women won't be attracted to a man that she needs to rescue.&nbsp; That's a fine hypothesis, but the moment at least one woman says she would be okay with it, your hypothesis is blown out of the water and you have to try again.&nbsp; I could see an argument of &quot;most women won't be attracted...&quot;&nbsp; That seems reasonable, but then you have to acknowledge that you're talking about heroic women of the Flash Gordon caliber.&nbsp; There are plenty of examples to the contrary in our fairy tales.&nbsp; The Seven Swans comes to mind where the heroine has to knit shirts out of nettles to save the Prince that she then marries.&nbsp; Gretel saves Hansel (of course they're brother and sister--that would be ooky--but she doesn't look down on him because she had the opportunity he didn't).&nbsp; Medea saves Jason.&nbsp; Eilonwy pulls Taran's bacon out of the fire several times.&nbsp; Mulan saves what's-his-name.&nbsp; That covers eastern Europe, western Europe, the Greeks, Welsh, and China.Once you're talking about a rare example (most women aren't going on &quot;adventures&quot; just like most men aren't), then I think you need to take your rulebook of expected behavior and throw it out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dinkeldog, post: 969365, member: 195"] What has the discussion on whether it's possible for a woman to rescue a man and feel romantically attracted got to have anything to do with biological structural differences between sexes (gender is an inappropriate term here)? You can posit that women won't be attracted to a man that she needs to rescue. That's a fine hypothesis, but the moment at least one woman says she would be okay with it, your hypothesis is blown out of the water and you have to try again. I could see an argument of "most women won't be attracted..." That seems reasonable, but then you have to acknowledge that you're talking about heroic women of the Flash Gordon caliber. There are plenty of examples to the contrary in our fairy tales. The Seven Swans comes to mind where the heroine has to knit shirts out of nettles to save the Prince that she then marries. Gretel saves Hansel (of course they're brother and sister--that would be ooky--but she doesn't look down on him because she had the opportunity he didn't). Medea saves Jason. Eilonwy pulls Taran's bacon out of the fire several times. Mulan saves what's-his-name. That covers eastern Europe, western Europe, the Greeks, Welsh, and China. Once you're talking about a rare example (most women aren't going on "adventures" just like most men aren't), then I think you need to take your rulebook of expected behavior and throw it out. [/QUOTE]

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