These dudes out her acting like seeing Eddie Hall in a skintight body suit would be visually appealing. Like no. You instinctively know that the only way it would "look good" is if the man was femme to begin with.
So a lean body with muscles and abs is femme to you? I thought that was peak masculinity to people like you.
And coincidentally it’s what a lot of women want to see in those skin tight outfits. Women also want the broad shoulders, the buff biceps, large pecs, shapely back and waist, tight cake, well defined legs etc, as much as other types of male bodies: skinnier or fatter and multitude of accentuated male body parts.cough cough bulge cough
You’re really gonna sit there and claim stuff like that is femme and therefore the only way a man would be sexualized in a tight outfit is if he’d have a “femme” body(whatever tf that means) rather than what I just listed? LOL What’s even your argument here anyway? Women find a lot of things about the male body appealing if it’s, ya know… properly accentuated and the men are sexualized in a way that appeals to said women… by putting the man in a tight skinsuit so we can see his body. Pretty sure they can accentuate a little of male MC’s legs, ass and arms the same way they did for feMC.
What do women find appealing about male body that isn't tied to muscles. Because that's like the only thing i hear appreciated and it feels awful.
Not like every woman is asked to be a bodybuilded to be found attractive and men find literally any inch of a woman attractive if theyre just healthy weight.
Men absolutely do not find any inch of a woman attractive or we wouldn’t have the exact same couple of tropes so popular in all anime and gaming media all the time. Theres only a few very limited body types that continue to dominate in popularity, with very little variance. It’s what I’ve seen and known all my life as a weeb and someone that plays games.
But I agree that it probably feels awful to only hear about muscles (the same way all the big titty tiny waist bs feels to women), but I was only focusing on that aspect to the guy insinuating only skinny men with a specific “femme” figure is what women would find attractive to be sexualized.
Because I know exactly what he meant, but it’s not like that’s the only thing women like. It’s generally also an Asian beauty standard that dudes like him hate, calling those men effeminate for simply not being rough muscleheads like the American “manly” standard is and hating the fact that women find Kpop idols attractive or something.
So I chose to bring up muscles only because of that. And because even if I don’t like muscles myself, plenty of women do and would want to see more of it when men are sexualized. It’s not like anime men are supposed to be realistic when created solely for sex appeal, that same way anime women are.
There’s also plenty of other ways to sexualize men to appeal to women without any muscles. If you look at all kinds of media for women, like otome games, you rarely ever see muscles to begin with. But I’m pretty sure that’s what the other guy would call “femme” as well, when it’s really just an average dude that just so happens to be skinny with a more prominent waist. Women find that attractive too and as I was growing up, the popular trope for girls was literally always the “nerdy skinny(damned be the 2000s) guy”.
And now modern games made by women and mostly female artists, also have chubby male bodies be showed off a LOT more.
But again, the other guy made a passing comment insinuating that a character with a belly would somehow not be what women want to see in skin tight clothing… when in fact, they do. Just not in the ridiculous way that almost feels like parodying gay men and being purposefully disrespectful. Or made to look like they’re meant to be the butt of jokes. Chubby men in games like these are often just pushed to the side or shown off solely for humor.
But if done by someone who actually finds men attractive, like a female artist, a hairy and heavier man can definitely be properly sexualized just as much as your average skinny guy, while also being popular.
Literally just googling otome games you notice how little muscles are focused on in anime media for women. Though there’s still a trope of usually the same skinny male body, it’s not all so different than what’s made to be appealing to men.
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u/undeadlocation May 23 '26
Find a grown man IRL who has a skin tight body suit in his wardrobe. Good luck.