It's all overly shredded men with insane proportions doing ridiculous poses.
I think another angle of it is that men aren't as against being sexualized and unless it overtly appeals to them because their gay/bi. they just gloss over it. Conan, jojo, fist of the north star, "manime" in general, etc.
If you find no appeal in the male form like me, this shit is just cool. Im just aware that this is kind of the same thing as above.
Almost naked greasy buff dudes doing goofy poses while doing stereotypical manly things, with their junk regularly emphasized.
edit: I want to add a little addendum to this.
If you read this whole mess of a thread, i think (or atleast I hope) you might take away not so much as changing your entire world view, but rather the nuance of what I'm trying to get across.
I have my opinions, you have yours, but i hope at the very least the nuance of it is something that can be communicated. Even within this thread I have reached agreeable conclusions with those i was debating.
At the end of the day I suppose the only thing we can ever take away is our own conclusions.
Abusing steroids can basically cut your lifespan in half. Being skinny isn't halfway as dangerous unless we are talking anorexia, which no one considers attractive
Why do you have to claim one is worse? Restrictive eating can easily lead to anorexia even if being severely underweight is not your initial goal. And women abuse laxatives and appetite suppressants in the same way men abuse steroids. Again, I’m not saying one is worse for your health than the other as I don’t factually know which is worse or if one even is worse, I’m just questioning why you feel the need to do that?
Because OP is minimizing one and overemphasizing the other. Tbf I don't really consider either male or female oversexualizing in media to be much of a problem. Also I do think most female bodies in media are achievable by just not over eating and healthy life style, while male physiques need rigorous lifting and dieting for multiple years or steroids, which many male action movie actors are clearly using but isn't nearly as media worthy as if movie execs would require a female to be anorexic (which doesn't really even happen)
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u/jbyrdab 15h ago edited 11h ago
I mean if we wanna be fair.... Araki...
It's all overly shredded men with insane proportions doing ridiculous poses.
I think another angle of it is that men aren't as against being sexualized and unless it overtly appeals to them because their gay/bi. they just gloss over it. Conan, jojo, fist of the north star, "manime" in general, etc.
If you find no appeal in the male form like me, this shit is just cool. Im just aware that this is kind of the same thing as above.
Almost naked greasy buff dudes doing goofy poses while doing stereotypical manly things, with their junk regularly emphasized.
edit: I want to add a little addendum to this.
If you read this whole mess of a thread, i think (or atleast I hope) you might take away not so much as changing your entire world view, but rather the nuance of what I'm trying to get across.
I have my opinions, you have yours, but i hope at the very least the nuance of it is something that can be communicated. Even within this thread I have reached agreeable conclusions with those i was debating.
At the end of the day I suppose the only thing we can ever take away is our own conclusions.