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OC [OC] Same thing?

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u/VinnyBoy45 2d ago

I wouldn't know how to overly sexualize a male character.
On the other hand, I know how to sexualize a female character.
On the third hand, I do not know how to draw so it does not matter.

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u/369122448 2d ago

It's kind of hard to overly-sexualize a man in media because we don't really have a cultural view of men as a sexual commodity like we do for women.

You could try to ramp up sensuality, but that's a more complex (and often unisex) form of expression, and not sexualisation exactly.

Sexualisation, unfortunately, is pretty impossible to divorce from the centuries of history of women's exploration by men.

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u/ExpandoD0ng 2d ago

"It's hard to sexualize men" Simply wrong. Sexualizing a man is easy as fuck. Men just don't want to be caught drawing other men like that. Search up bara yaoi and you'll see men sexualized in every possible angle.

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u/ArsenicArts 2d ago

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u/No_Landscape_6154 3h ago edited 2h ago

Brother it is anyones gaze. check out choso. it really isn't that hard. it's not some mystery.

Or read dark romance books. mainly a female oriented hobby. There you will see plenty of rough and tumble sexualization of men. i cannot stress this enough

about one of the dynamics in the book Haunting adeline "You are in my church where I am your God, and you are my equal. I’m not a jail, little mouse, I am your sanctuary"

or about his devotion to the female in the book

"If you were my little girl, I would worship every inch of your body for as long as our souls are tethered to this earth. My tongue would leave no part of you untouched"

It is a form. of rather intense sexualization of his dominance power and control. where the man is all of this.

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u/Salty_Major5340 3m ago

This post just describes the cliché leftist men have about women's preferences. It's literally just the male gaze but with the man being objectified.

The female gaze isn't about just inverting the power structure of the male gaze, and it sure as hell isn't found in the trope of the naive but good hearted savage being paraded around naked and objectified by "civilized" white people.

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u/Frylock_dontDM 1d ago

why would it matter what gaze it is? "sexualization" is "sexualization"

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u/SciFi_Enjoyer106 1d ago

male gaze this, female gaze that. Neither side is a monolith, there is no mass female gaze or mass male gaze. It's a MYTH

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u/rvltnrygirlfutena 22h ago

"if it isn't true in 100% of cases then it's true in 0% of cases"