I'm rather shocked how little it comes up in this discussion.
It's a running joke in the community that the series does this despite not being gay/yaoi focused media and having like... 4 gay people in the series, both of which die in part 5.
People don’t like over sexualizing women because it’s unrealistic and can hurt women’s image and beauty standards.
If you think that these men in Jojo are normal and this is how men look and aren’t over-exaggerated to look hot, then you might be apart of the problem too
Yeah, if people really think this is simply "a man in good shape," it's making a lot more sense why eating disorders and BDD in teenage boys receives virtually no resource dedication despite having really comparable rates to teenage girls
I once said to my wife "I think my ideal build would be Brad Pitt's when he was in Fight Club" and she goes "Oh, but that's so scrawny. I'd go for something a little bigger like Alan Ritchson."
People seem to have no idea where the standards are for men. I think the manosphere shit that goes around is nonsense but it's these sorts of things that give demagogues hooks into young men.
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u/jbyrdab 15h ago
Jojo.
I'm rather shocked how little it comes up in this discussion.
It's a running joke in the community that the series does this despite not being gay/yaoi focused media and having like... 4 gay people in the series, both of which die in part 5.