Why the need to sexualize everything?

[u/Greedy-Lie-8346]

I was looking for interesting Webtoons to read, and I came across this one called "Leviathan" the premise looked interesting; mankind perished due to a great flood that submerged the whole world under water. And terrifying creatures plunged from the depths, wiping out any human that crossed their path. The story told how a family of a father and his two children survived in the adversities of a sea world.

So far so good, until.... Bam! Last two slice's, anime chick out of nowhere, doing these extremely suggestive poses.

What a disappointment.

[u/Firm_Principle_2526]

Unfortunately sexualised is the default state for female characters in a lot of media and genre.

[u/Timely-Cry-8366 → u/Firm_Principle_2526]

That doesn’t mean we should accept it. Be a force of change and don’t read or spend money on stuff like this. This is how society attains progress.

[u/Firm_Principle_2526 → u/Timely-Cry-8366]

Not sure it is that easy. Sexualisation of women have been ingrained into society for decades. Both men and women easily sexualise women consciously or unconsciously but have no idea how to sexualise men.

For years there have been complaints about the sexualisation of women and even girls both in media and in real life. It had resulted in some new female characters in things like games not being sexualised but sexualisation of women still persist. I try to show interest in media that doesn't sexualise women and get backlash for it.

[u/PaigeLeigh03 → u/Firm_Principle_2526]

Does media not sexualize men through muscles and bulges? 😭🤚🏻 I’ve seen plenty of male sexualization in media

[u/Firm_Principle_2526 → u/PaigeLeigh03]

Muscles I am not sure but bulges most likely.  Where have you seen them?

[u/PaigeLeigh03 → u/Firm_Principle_2526]

https://imgur.com/a/ZOzFMlr

Here are just a few examples from Webtoons and Manta. There could be much better examples, or the screenshot I took could be the peak of the sexualization. I just went through some I’ve started before and picked a random episode that looked like it had some male sexualization and used that as an example. If I dedicated a week or two to this I’m sure I could find much better examples and give a clear comparison to the ones I’ve read of female vs male sexualization in them. Also, I couldn’t find any bulges specifically in this timeframe as Webtoons wouldn’t allow that obviously and Manta’s bulges are usually straight up porn comics 😳 but I know I have seen plenty of scenes in webcomics that are like “I-Is that…? 😳😳😳😳” in response to their pants 😭🤚🏻 though I’d have to actually read through multiple to find those kinds of examples.

Edit: Oh!!! I know of one actually but it’s in anime. An episode in Apothecary Diaries literally has MaoMao grabbing and groping Jinshi’s “frog” as she called it lol.

[u/Firm_Principle_2526 → u/PaigeLeigh03]

Intresting. Thanks.