• nagaram
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    23 days ago

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

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      23 days ago

      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.

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        22 days 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.