Momo Kurumi explains in a simple tweet how male superheroes are designed as a male power fantasy as opposed to being sexualized for women. And tumblr user pmastamonkmonk simply illustrates this difference using Hugh Jackman magazine covers. Now that’s not to say that no women like muscles at all, of course some do. But it’s certainly not the reason bulky, veiny, muscly superheroes exist. Here is the example:
Sources: Momo Kurumi & pmastamonkmonk
(via: Geek Girls)
Greatest comment ever in Terry Pratchett books. “Go ahead, bake my quiche”. Unless you have read the discworld novels you will never understand just how Terry Pratchett explained the angst of normal women by ridiculing the views of modern man
Hugh Jackmann comfy at home might be good for women, what non binary people want is Tom Holland dancing Rihanna in the Lip Sync battle on loop on even days and on uneven days a loop of Elliot Page dancing in that scene of the Umbrella Academy.
To be fair, there are bi/pan people out here who want that, too.
I was thinking about this yesterday
I was thinking about this yesterday and how the guys who are like this aren’t actually interested in what women like. Usually because they don’t respect, or really like, women, except to screw. They’re competing for status with other men, and since they devalue women’s opinions compared to other men, yeah, they’re not gonna listen to women. They’ll get mad when women don’t want what they believe they *should* want, which is the same thing other men want and is therefore obviously correct and superior.
There’s some major illogic to all of it but to unpack it they’ll first need to work on why they aren’t interested in hearing women’s opinions.
IMO, to want him in a pink apron cutting vegetables and singing off-key to 70s rock is just as bad as wanting big hulking naked men in loin cloths. It’s still objectification. Just because good housekeeping knows how to market objects to women better than the makers of Wolverine, doesn’t make it less a problem.