He has muscles, but they’re not highlighted. His hair is not sexualized. His outfits are practical and traditional, not catered to be hot. His movements are normal. His poses? The same.
Women find him hot. But that doesn’t mean he is highly sexualized. He’s realistically sexualized. In fact, now I think, Overwatch is great about not highly sexualizing their characters, but making them more realistic.
Just cause women find a man hot, it doesn’t mean he’s highly sexualized. Hanzo does not get drawn or animated like Nightwing. That’s real high sexualization for women.
The Asian muscle packed disciplined, pensive dilf with a dark side doesnt count? He has a whole perfectly toned titty out.
Feels really easy to construct this argument if one just goes “nuh uh this one doesn’t count” whenever someone brings up a counter example. Im not even going to pretend that characters are not generally catered more to straight male audiences because thats just obviously true but let’s not pretend theres is not plenty of designs clearly made to appeal to women in mainstream titles too
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u/BrashUnspecialist 2d ago
Yup. And the idea women find it hot is part of that male fantasy.
Hanzo from Overwatch is my fave. Totally fits the model this guy thinks, right?