r/comics • • 15h ago

OC [OC] Same thing?

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u/mace30 15h ago

All I get from this is we lack interesting and varied ways to sexualize men.

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u/Van_Weezer 15h ago

It's an ongoing problem. No one agrees on what makes men attractive, even when hyper sexualized. Some people will point to Hugh Jackman on the cover of Good housekeeping as an example of a mans thirst trap. But that doesn't exactly feel equal to the kind of thirst traps we see with women.

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u/Big_Excitement_3551 15h ago

You honestly can’t really sexualise a man in the same way you can a woman in our current society

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u/Lopsided-Farmer-9422 10h ago

From the perspective of predominantly male fanbases these tend to be catered too, male sexualisation is aspirational while female sexualisation is objectifying