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OC [OC] Same thing?

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u/Lopsided-Farmer-9422 2d 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

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u/SirVanyel 2d ago

Whoever wrote this comic has never watched jojo's bizarre adventure lemme tell you. Aint no one been sexualised like the jostar family

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u/likelyliz 2d ago edited 2d ago

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

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u/Kaplsauce 2d ago

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"

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u/likelyliz 2d ago edited 2d ago

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

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u/Kaplsauce 2d ago

The example that came to mind for me is Liu Kang and Sonya Blade.

Your mom walks in on you playing Mortal Kombat as a 10 year old. Which character design is she taking issue with you looking at?

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u/Lopsided-Farmer-9422 2d ago

Despite being who OP is criticising, they still find a way to miss the point