The fuck is it with women and love triangles. every fucking YA and romance novel adapation is all about 'oh no...

the fuck is it with women and love triangles. every fucking YA and romance novel adapation is all about 'oh no, she can't make up her mind'.
is this like the ultimate female fetish?

>they put peeta on a stool for this photo

Must've been embarassing

the ultimate female fantasy is being the center of attention, so yes

two males fighting over a female is the oldest and most primal of animal behavior

>is having multiple guys struggling for her affection the ultimate female fetish?
the more, the merrier

It appeals to Women's polygamy

I think the hunger games represents where female are in their minds.

they go for the hot bad boy they actually desire at first, then once they're done and ready to settle down, they settle with peeta the beta.

Or you know just photoshop you woman

Wow, people like the idea of multiple beautiful people pining after them and wanting their dick/pussy. What a shocker.

that's where the term peetastool comes from

>settle down

where does this happen?

Yeah it's unrealistic because irl every 5/10 or above has at least 5 orbiters

shut up, manlet

This shit is why you don't have a girlfriend.

yeah, but you never see 2 girls 1 boy. it's always 2 boys 1 girl.

it's just really easy to write
YA and romance novels are the bottom of the barrel
Plus most people, and most women, are plebs anyway. Look at all the capeshit that comes out

as they start to get older, maybe like, toward their 30's when they're worried about not being able to have their pick of guys anymore as they're losing their looks.

But if you're wrong and I have had many gfs and am popular with women then you're going to feel like a right idiot aren't you?

You'll never know apparently.

There's many a male hero who has multiple women who are in awe of/love him and many possible love interests.

The only difference is how male characters and female characters typically react to it or what kind of focus it gets in the narrative. Women usually question the morality of stringing one along and try to figure out which they want. Male characters don't typically go through that.

>one is a turbo manlet

It isn't a hard choice

>what is anime and manga harems
also, a lot of YA romance books have a female competitor (who obviously loses)

>as they start to get older, maybe like, toward their 30's

i'm talking about the movie doofus

I actually had 2 girls vying for me for several months in highschool

Mind you, they were both fugly, dumb and mentally ill, but it still felt good

Even in comics the male hero often has multiple female characters interested in him. It's there in a lot of things.

I've had the same thing only with a 6/10 and 8/10

Their competition ended up being a turn off

oh, when she grows up and becomes/accepts her place as a leader. Accepts her responsibilities and becomes an adult.

movies aren't literal user, they're full of analogy to our regular lives to appeal to us.

>it's an r9k thread

well time to close the tab

Damn bro. Livin la vida loca.

10/10

>You'll never know apparently.

I'm sorry you think this way

>gets btfo
>welp, it's an r9k thread!

I'm not argueing with you in a hostile way here when i ask this, but what?

what do you mean by "I'm sorry you think this way"

maybe you misunderstood the comment I made. I said you could never know if i was what you had claimed i was (without a gf) or whether i was actually really popular with women and there's no point in arguing on that because you'll never know the truth of it.

Super easy drama. Encourages fan engagement with "Team Scott" vs "team Logan" type shit. I actually feel like movies have gotten better about using love triangles as a crutch.

Truth

>It never ends in a threesome

What a fucking waste

>tfw to intellijent to real eyes when girls are interested in me

this is the truth.

>have two hot dudes fight over you

Yeah no idea OP :^)

It's not even a woman thing. Who the fuck doesn't want more than one person lusting after them? It's amazing when it's just a single person doing the lusting.

This fantasy is present in a ton of media, geared towards men or women.

It's a bit overwhelming when it's 2 girls tbqh lad, too much tension in the air and you have to be very cunning to manage them both properly if you want to reap the benefits

It's not all it's cracked up to be with two men either. Men get creepy and possessive really easily in that scenario.

Funny enough, they portray that downside within YA novels but women still like the idea of it and find it hot. I think it's because they never experience it in real life.

Man, really? How old are you guys? I've had 4 girls on the go at once. Think I nearly got to 5 but we didn't keep it going.

Women understandbly love the idea of being attractive to men. That is why rape is such a popular fetish and why every woman like to think she is in danger of being raped at all times. Its an ego boost for them to think men are so attracted to them they cant control themselves.

Male characters are always either sexually indiscriminate Chads (a la James Bond) or they are persued by multiple women but only focus on/feel affection for one.

To be honest, they are rarely ever represented being in state of loving two people at once, as opposed to female protags (from Katniss to Bridget Jones) who are ALWAYS depicted that way.

Males can be pricks etc but at least they can do loyalty.

The most basic self insert fantasy templates for women all include fundamental emotional/psychological disloyalty.

>tfw he's not team damon

Women are always "torn" in these but in the end they always pick the one you'd expect and stick with them. Even if it only happens after a lot of back and forth.

out fucking rageously good post

Yeah. Women want to be fought over. It's just nature.

It is overwhelmingly more popular in female targeted media.

>Hunger Games
>Twilight
>True Blood
>Bridget Jones
>Buffy
>The Kane Chronicles
>The Vampire Diaries
>Gilmore Girls (x2 because each of the main characters has a different set of guys after her simultaneously)

And those are just the ones I know about from having a sister.

>inb4 yeah right

Writers take a different approach to female audiences, and this is common and specific enough that its clearly trying to tap into something other than a general "Everybody wants to be wanted XD" thing.

r/k Selection theory suggests that females are attracted to different qualities in different parts of their sexual cycle and subconsciously seek to get sperm and mate-commitments from different kinds of males.

So its pretty obvious why this is a thing.

You're not being honest with yourself if you say that this applies equally to both genders.

love triangles have been favorite chick topics even in old ass literature we read in hs...

Yeah, because fictional stories generally rehearse social morality.

But its what is being tapped into, the appeal to a female psycho-sexual hot button that is revealing here, not the fact that the endings are morally conventional.

Its the same reason heroes whose appeal is being violent (Rambo, Hitman etc) always have to in some way morally disavow violence in the movie.

i think the fetishisation of it has come from its massive overuse as a familiar/relatable trope because it is easy to write and easy to draw drama out of.