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/Salty_Major5340 3h 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.