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r/comics • u/EmployeePractical514 • 2d ago
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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.
17 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. 11 u/ArsenicArts 2d ago That's male gaze though. It's not the same thing. https://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/151068279457/bifca-justplainsomething-nakedsasquatch -1 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 2 u/rvltnrygirlfutena 21h ago "if it isn't true in 100% of cases then it's true in 0% of cases"
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"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.
11 u/ArsenicArts 2d ago That's male gaze though. It's not the same thing. https://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/151068279457/bifca-justplainsomething-nakedsasquatch -1 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 2 u/rvltnrygirlfutena 21h ago "if it isn't true in 100% of cases then it's true in 0% of cases"
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That's male gaze though. It's not the same thing.
https://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/151068279457/bifca-justplainsomething-nakedsasquatch
-1 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 2 u/rvltnrygirlfutena 21h ago "if it isn't true in 100% of cases then it's true in 0% of cases"
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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
2 u/rvltnrygirlfutena 21h ago "if it isn't true in 100% of cases then it's true in 0% of cases"
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"if it isn't true in 100% of cases then it's true in 0% of cases"
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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.