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[–] voxthefox@lemmy.blahaj.zone 34 points 3 months ago (6 children)

Except aren't both of male fantasies of the two genders?

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Its my favorite fact that absolutely no woman has ever fantasized about the hyper muscular super hero bods.

And in fact, I had no idea this comic artist was a man until this moment lol

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I agree with the sentiment but "Absolutely no woman has ever fantasized" about that?

Do you really believe that? If not, why use these words? I don't think it serves your purpose and it's too bad.

Don't hate me please. I'm just talking semantics which are important to me

[–] nagaram@startrek.website 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You have a point. Hyperbole is how we got here in the first place.

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So did you! Pretty sure you're right about the artist being a dude for the reason you mentioned.
Thanks for giving my point a thought.

[–] squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

On the other hand, women's media is also full of that stuff. Maybe not Schwarzenegger style extreme bodybuilding, but look at a women's magazine or the covers of romantic fiction books made for women. Both men and women in these types of media are overly fit and overly sexualized too.

I don't think it's specifically a gendered thing that there are people who like to look at that kind of stuff and people who reject it.

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