>>712412229
Exactly
The problem with HFY isn't it's premise, because I think exploring the biology and anthropology aspects of humanity in the context of an alien community is an interesting idea, even as a power fantasy. The real problem with HFY as a genre is that it's piloted entirely by amateur writers, and as a result for every one of the stories that's interesting or well done there's another fifty which are just pure schlock

It's less about it being a power fantasy and more about being a completely masturbatory, low quality, genre-incestuous power fantasy