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OC [OC] Same thing?

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u/stanleysladybird 13h ago

No one is saying that men aren't also victims of the patriarchy in exactly the way your outlined, just that they don't get sexualized in the way women do.

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u/Peanut_Butter_Toast 11h ago

To be honest, I don't even know what it would look like for men to be sexualized in this way. Why don't women sexualize men in this way, and what would it look like if they did? There are plenty of heterosexual female artists and writers, so why aren't they interested in sexualizing men this way?

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u/chooseyourownstories 11h ago

They do, it is just in writing or yaoi or something. Judging from my female friends it tends to be smut, some sort of gay manga, or creating characters that they mod to have sex with each other in a mmo or something like that.

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u/Rufus_king11 8h ago

I think you likely haven't looked super hard then. For one example, Fifty Shades of Grey broke into the mainstream and got a trilogy of movies. With a little more searching, you start running into the erotica subgenre of novels, which includes such gems as seen below.

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u/BellaPona 11h ago

I’m assuming it’s because we know that it feels dehumanizing.

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u/ArgonianDov 7h ago

Unforunately I have seen people hold that belief, believing it only effects women.

Notable those who do believe such tend to be cishet white women... not all are, but the main demographic that hold such idea tend to be