Survivorship bias. Basic buff & shirtless men are the limit of what a straight mens consumption is before getting into gay territory, which they obviously don't consume and therefore don't consider. The real equivalent would probably be bara art
Honestly never watched Jojo's. But from what I've seen... are they not basically exactly the same thing as the OP image? Every clip I've ever seen from that show is just obnoxiously ripped dudes. That kind of design tends to be more of a self-insert fantasy for men rather than a sexual fantasy for women.
the image is obviously not about every media ever. if your takeaway was that the comic is saying "men are never sexualized" you're not understanding it
OP: "making a man shirtless and buff is not equivalent to the sexualization of women"
Half the comments: "okay but people find abs attractive so a man changing his shirt is basically the same thing as a whole movie's worth of bikini armour"
in the warframe community i've heard nearly the same argument as the guy in the comic about some of the designs in that game. they literally think these two designs are both equally sexualized
Now one could ask themselves why extreme sexualisation of women is "normal" in media, while extreme sexualisation of men is relegated to "gay territory".
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u/Lopsided-Farmer-9422 11h ago
Survivorship bias. Basic buff & shirtless men are the limit of what a straight mens consumption is before getting into gay territory, which they obviously don't consume and therefore don't consider. The real equivalent would probably be bara art