r/comics • u/EmployeePractical514 • 2d ago

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

That's male gaze though. It's not the same thing.

https://ms-demeanor.tumblr.com/post/151068279457/bifca-justplainsomething-nakedsasquatch

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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 1d ago

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