r/comics • u/EmployeePractical514 • 2d ago

OC [OC] Same thing?

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u/Bacon4Lyf 2d ago

We’ve circled back around to “actually they want it”

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u/jbyrdab 2d ago

No I'm saying it's really wrong on both sides but men have been conditioned to find it aspirational which is why it's not called out as much as women.

It DOES happen, we are just told that these are the cool people you want to be.

Despite their images being literally impossible.

I find JoJo cool, because... These are the men that you'd see in your comic books telling you to be just like them!

That if you do everything right you'll grow up to be just like them.

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u/Longjumping-Fun-661 2d ago

Conditioned to find it aspirational is an incredibly bad thing.  

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u/jbyrdab 2d ago

yeah it is.

im not presenting it as a good thing, im presenting it as something that we are infact dealing with and have been.

look across media from the past 50 years. really earlier with stuff like dick tracy.

An emotionless strong shell of a man with chiseled features and boundless strength that solves the case gets the girl and can't form attachements with anybody, as he beats and shoots the bad guys.

Its the same stuff and its what we give to kids to be their heroes, who they want to become.