The artist is coping at levels which shouldn't be possible.
She (yes her, the artist) absolutely does want a man who treats her like an object. She (the artist) has absolutely, 100% probability, been turned on by the thought of chad treating her that way. She has absolutely said things during sex along the lines of, "yeah! I'm your fuck toy!" and she gushed at the thought of it.
If this was not then she would be in a long-term relationship with any generic male feminist beta who wont treat her that way. Those men are easy to find. The reason she's not in such a relationship is that she doesn't want that. She wants to be treated like an object.
And by the way, I can gender-flip this example too! Men have protection fantasies and "dying the hero's death" fantasies. We've all fantasized, at some point in our lives, about saving a woman in danger. So, if a man created a comic where he pretended he didn't want that, he'd be coping just like she is.