Maybe "privilege" is a many headed beast, and the boxes that Strange ticks are all boxes that come under the heading "privilege". He's a tall, slim(ish), white, young(ish), rich, charming, attractive(ish), intelligent (well, intelligent enough to be a scholar of magic), happily-partnered, magically powerful, unusual (almost unique at the start) man: any one of these would be reason enough to make him alluring as target, if that was what makes people want to see him brought down.

But for myself, when I read these stories, I have a dual response: I am drawn into what it must feel like to do these things to him, and also what it must be like for him to experience them. And then when the rescue comes, i swap my attacker mentality for a tender mentality, and before you know it, I'm in a soft and cosy dreamworld.

Is this oversharing? I hope not. Does anyone else switch sympathies like me?