• Lux@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Imo an important point to add is that sexualized characters aren’t inherently bad. It’s only bad when all or nearly all characters are sexualized. I like media with hot dudes, chicks, and everyhting else, but if all characters from 1 group are sexualized, then it gets weird

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      There was an Oglaf comic where the aliens noticed that the lobsteroid males looked like lobsters, while the lobsteroid women looked like hot human females in a sexy lobster suit. Same for the bee people, the bear people, the tree people. All the females looked like sexy humans.

      They concluded that they had to team up and kill all the humans.

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      It’s only bad when all or nearly all characters are sexualized

      I will not tolerate trash talk of Golden Wind

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        I guess I should add the caveat that if the point is that they’re supposed to be sexualized, it’s a different situation. I have no idea what the golden wind is, but I assume that’s part of it.

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          JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Part 5 is called Golden Wind, set in a highly exaggerated Italy in 2001.

          All of these characters are men:

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    Also: Compare Chris Hemsworth (who usually stars in movies made primarily for men) with Robert Pattinson (Twilight, among other movies that he’s less ashamed of).

    But, let’s not pretend that the Schwarzeneggers and Hemsworths (and male-targeted comic books) don’t fuck up male body image. Sure it’s a power fantasy, but for most men it’s not attainable (in part because a lot of (if not most) of these action movie stars take PEDs … I mean I guess normal people can take PEDs, too, but they shouldn’t, it’s quite unhealthy). Especially if we consider how much modern western society promotes behaviors that make people obese.