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r/comics • u/EmployeePractical514 • 16h ago
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The difference between idealizing and sexualizing.
1 u/Remote-Waste 6h ago Yeah, like yaoi hands. No guy is like "I dream of my hands being the size of baseball gloves." 1 u/Returninvestor 4h ago Yaoi is primarily consumed by women 2 u/Remote-Waste 3h ago https://giphy.com/gifs/rcfSXohU0EzOYuRFrK 1 u/Nearby-Weird9535 2h ago the difference being who the media is intended for. In lit-smut male love interests are sexualized, while the female main character are idealized, because that corresponds to what the audience is supposed to self-insert vs fantasize about
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Yeah, like yaoi hands. No guy is like "I dream of my hands being the size of baseball gloves."
1 u/Returninvestor 4h ago Yaoi is primarily consumed by women 2 u/Remote-Waste 3h ago https://giphy.com/gifs/rcfSXohU0EzOYuRFrK
Yaoi is primarily consumed by women
2 u/Remote-Waste 3h ago https://giphy.com/gifs/rcfSXohU0EzOYuRFrK
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https://giphy.com/gifs/rcfSXohU0EzOYuRFrK
the difference being who the media is intended for.
In lit-smut male love interests are sexualized, while the female main character are idealized, because that corresponds to what the audience is supposed to self-insert vs fantasize about
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u/CeramicToast 7h ago
The difference between idealizing and sexualizing.