But the fantastic is much more. Most critics agree that the fantastic offers a fantastic dramatization of a real-world problem with a simple solution which satisfies or teaches the reader or viewer. These works address the eternal questions, either traditionally in the forms of myth, folk tales and fairy tales or contemporarily in that they employ some common conventional knowledge in a fantastic way to create new conventions. The created worlds of the fantastic are not just different but alternative worlds. There is a reaction to the norms and above all, this type of work combats aesthetic boredom and demand the attention anew.
Women have to create everything anew.
As a result, it can be said that the actual genre of fantastic by women tends to go yet further, being logarithmically fantastic, if you will. In a reversal, that which is traditionally feminine may be negative and that which is traditionally unfeminine may be positive, thus being even more fantastic. In almost all art by women, in any media, power turns out to be a principal theme below the surface. For the feminist, power is absolutely the major interest. Not surprisingly, works of the sort that broach overt female power are frequently futuristic in order to placate the reader whose experience indicates that this is not a very realistic representation or who may be threatened by such power.