Dipping my toe in this out of curiosity more than anything else...the femdom/not femdom argument comes down to consent, yes? Kane can't exactly consent to a lot of this stuff, so it's not femdom? Kane consents to secret sub things, with multiple windows to back out (at the cost of demotion and Allesandra hatred).
Not what I expected to type when I woke up this morning.
Exactly it comes down to content and consent but in a sexual manner. Femdom as a term is a pretty modern term, much the same as the acronym BDSM. But all definitions of femdom come down to being sexual and within the BDSM umbrella.
So given that, hether some folk want to accept it or not, the vast bulk of scenes within KG do not constitute femdom, one because most scenes are not sexual in nature and two because without consent, without explicit willingness to submit....there cannot be any femdom.
You've seen the arguments here I'm sure, as a practicing dominant for longer than the term BDSM has been around (and coincidentally I was taught by a dominatrix heh), I don't really need to prove anything to anyone here because as I repeatedly say, very little femdom with the exception of on the SecretSub route where Kane does have the opportunity to say no to Alessandra on numerous occasions. To also add, Master/Slave is what we see mostly in KG but even then, within BDSM, the slave has still explicitly consented to be treated as such. Is that what we see here? No, it isn't.
Perhaps some folk wish or think the term means something other than it's official and dictionary term...who knows but it is a hill I will very much die on