Since you want to hear from a feminist, I thought I’d give it a try.
Feminism is about full rights, respect and equal opportunities for women. However, feminists have very diverse views on sexuality. Many are strongly opposed to pornography on the grounds that it’s exploitative, demeaning and subversive. Others, using the term, “sex-positive” feel any woman’s sexual activity, including sex work, is fine as long as it’s her free choice, she enjoys it, and there is no coercion. I had a stripper friend who said she felt empowered and that the exploitation worked two ways.
Most feminists are fine with women competing in formal combat sports. They would not be ok with irl catfights the same way no decent human being would want to see human beings getting hurt. As for catfight fantasies, feminists would not approve of most of the material on FCF. Common themes in catfight stories, like physical or emotional harm, fighting over a man, humiliation, etc. are all deal breakers.
That said, my own perspective on catfight stories can be found in my profile. An occasional woman, like me, can see artistic and erotic expression in fantasy only. All of the female fight artwork in my photo gallery were created by women. In short, as someone who has been in large groups of women for my entire adult life, I use catfights as metaphorical stand-ins for the crappy way women (including outspoken feminists) often treat each other.
Near the end of my story “The Poacher”, I wrote:
“For weeks, the fight between Katie and Paula replayed in my mind. No doubt, it was the strangest, most incomprehensibly vile thing I’d ever witness. How on earth could women treat each other like that? But the funny thing is, that over time, I saw catfights everywhere. Not physical fights, but in the form of gossip, lying, backbiting and worse. At work. At the gym. In my neighborhood. In my social circles. Is spreading untrue stories really much different than slapping and scratching? Could harming someone’s reputation be worse than stripping them naked? Is destroying a person’s dignity and self worth in the board room the moral equivalent of shoving your vagina in their face? Do the people we step on to advance our careers become trophies mounted on the walls of our minds? Perhaps Paula and Katie only personified what we figuratively do to each other every day.”
I hope this makes sense.
Finally, I know many guys here feel conflicted. Your fetish is part of your sexuality. You didn’t choose it. It just happened, just like we don’t choose our sexual orientation. If you worry that your fantasies are misogynistic, that need not define you as a person, nor prevent you from having healthy, mutually respectful relationships with women. Everyone has a private kink of some sort. I’d rather have a husband with a catfight fetish than a guy who wants me to tie him up and stomp all over his naked body while wearing stiletto heels.
