I think one has to read it from the context that the vast majority of the world is still made up of patriarchal societies, so when authors are writing within this context it's more of a form of resistance and celebration (consciously or unconsciously).
Would believe it to be so but reality unfortunately rings different a bit if one looks a bit far back.
Don't think it comes from the resistance point.
Female weitten romance novels have been around longer than you can imagine and trust me, the stuff that goes on in there would make you question your sanity┗( T﹏T )┛
I still read them of course because one I find it amusing and two, what's life without a little bit of madness ╮(￣▽￣)╭
But believe me, this genre of writing doesn't come from a place of resistance, both sides of the sex simply love their power fantasies, if a writer claims herself making a resistance movement when making this genre then please take no offense to my wording in the slightest but I find it baloney (¬_¬)
I like this work no doubt, but reading this made me think of something very funny .
Every now and then there's lots of whining about male written or targeted fictional works where the male protagonist is good at everything, all powerful and has girls falling for him like flies.
Boy oh boy the waves and insults of misogyny and sexism, incel and pervet for these authors will make me laugh like hell.
But then I am quite amused of the very fact that when I read female written and targeted works, the female MC who is always either plain most of the time or super beautiful is good at everything, super smart and all powerful, better than all the male warriors and has them falling for her like flies.
Won't touch the smut genre of female written works , just the shoujo is enough.
These two sides of the same coin get very different reactions online, it's always so amusing to read when viewing each of the two sides going at it, of course I know there's gonna be the gymnastics that it's different and whatnot but it's still very funny (=・ω・=).
Eitherway, I'm done now. And I still really do love this work both the FML and ML are funny stoics, one more mischievous than the other of course sometimes