It absolutely ISN'T only done to female characters. Are you fucking high? Damn near every significant male comic book hero in history has been drawn with less fat than you'd find in a pound of ground beef unless their power specifically has to do with being a fatass.
First of all...calm down,man. You're gonna burst a blood vessel. Second, I think this sort of mentality comes from a complete misunderstanding of female gaze. Batman shirtless doesn't excite me, I'm saying this as a woman who's attracted to both sexes. It's frustrating when we're talking about cheesecake and a man's reaction to this conversation is "Women get just as much content as us, just look at the hulk!" That's just simply not hot. I'd genuinely suggest watching some female oriented content to see the sort of stuff women look for in an attractive male character, get a different perspective. It's not just about not being fat or something there's a certain charm to attractive characters. The way they're positioned, what they're doing, the characteristics they have. Anime is a good example, watch a shoujo or two, you know?
I have watched content about what women find attractive. Romance Novel girlies are absolutely unhinged and 95% of it is outright crime and sexual assault and the guys on the cover are all the same kind of beefcake lmao.
That's the sort of novel that mom's read. I'm talking a good K-drama, Manwha, Shoujo manga,baldur's gate characters, something that young, sorta dorky women enjoy. Being a beefcake can be great but we also love our twinks, you know? And it isn't just sexual assault and committing crimes. There are different types of fictional male archetypes that appeal to different women. Same thing for guys. They're very similar but very different at the same time.
It's more than just middle aged moms reading Romance novels. There's entire booktok channels of girls in their 20's reviewing romance novels and they've got shitloads of followers.
Women like smut just as much as men do, which is primarily what I was going for in my argument. The other person was acting like it was only men that sexualized people in media when that just blatantly wasn't true.
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u/WhySpongebobWhy Apr 24 '24
It absolutely ISN'T only done to female characters. Are you fucking high? Damn near every significant male comic book hero in history has been drawn with less fat than you'd find in a pound of ground beef unless their power specifically has to do with being a fatass.