by i am insane » Wed Sep 29, 2021 9:46 pm
At least in part, it's probably that the giantess fetish is a more 'acceptable' one. By first glance, giantesses can just be about 'bigger boobs' or something, maybe looking up a woman's skirt, which if explained like that would seem 'normal' for a fetish, so you don't think much of it (I remember, from when I was first figuring the fetish out, finding a beer commercial with some guys having shrunk. A girlfriend walks into the room, bends over in front of them, and they all cheer at the look at her now larger rack.) Shrinking women, on the other hand... ignoring how there are *less* boobs now, the dynamic of it fall pretty clearly in depowering women, which isn't really something people like to admit in public. In many ways, I think of SW being something like bondage, honestly.
Also, at this point, the sheer saturation of giantess in normal media is probably helping recruit/open people's eyes to the concept; hell, I remember someone commenting that a GTS character in a game opened their eyes to the fetish (and then the community promptly drove them away, lol), while SWs continue to be less common in that kind of thing.
At least in part, it's probably that the giantess fetish is a more 'acceptable' one. By first glance, giantesses can just be about 'bigger boobs' or something, maybe looking up a woman's skirt, which if explained like that would seem 'normal' for a fetish, so you don't think much of it (I remember, from when I was first figuring the fetish out, finding a beer commercial with some guys having shrunk. A girlfriend walks into the room, bends over in front of them, and they all cheer at the look at her now larger rack.) Shrinking women, on the other hand... ignoring how there are *less* boobs now, the dynamic of it fall pretty clearly in depowering women, which isn't really something people like to admit in public. In many ways, I think of SW being something like bondage, honestly.
Also, at this point, the sheer saturation of giantess in normal media is probably helping recruit/open people's eyes to the concept; hell, I remember someone commenting that a GTS character in a game opened their eyes to the fetish (and then the community promptly drove them away, lol), while SWs continue to be less common in that kind of thing.