One of the funniest ironies to come from the bitter insistence that James Bond was merely a decades-old male power fantasy is that it's typically from critics who overlooked the amount of "fangirls" who also enjoyed the franchise over the years, as well as some of the actors who took up the mantle of Mr. Bond.
A similar phenomena has also appeared within female fandoms of certain fictional series with male protagonists including comics. There are literally women who have fetishes for fantasizing about Superman, Batman, Spider-man, etc. Just look at the fanfics.
Like I'm not shaming anyone for that; people are into what they like. I'm just saying I for one am not surprised there's some women who were prefer Bond stay a seductive "alpha male" cliche. It's an attractive archtype for both storytelling and fantasy.
