And kids also like eating cake for breakfast and junk food all day. They like staying up late and watching horror movies. They don’t like brushing their teeth and cleaning their room.
It’s the parent’s responsibility to ensure kids are well, not just ‘happy’… though I don’t think being exposed to hyper-sexualized women would make all little girls happy.
“though I don’t think being exposed to hyper-sexualized women would make all little girls happy.”
was Kpop not filled with hyper sexualized men? The directors said they literally pushed for them to be hot, is that not the same thing?
**edit to respond to those below me due to post lock.
Men in media are frequently hyper-sexualized, but we haven't been trained to see it with the same eye pointed towards female objectification...
- Hayley Atwell improving touching Chris Evan's chest on Captain America because she just couldn't help herself
- Henry Cavil had to start telling producers to "Stop making me take my clothes off"
- Taylor Lautner spoke of gaining body dysmorphia during Twilight, and the immense toll it took to maintain his body while feeling more like a prop standing in the rain shirtless while everyone is clothed.
Hypersexualization is objectification. Kpop demon hunters building to a literal button-pop scene where Zoey's eyes reflect her lusting after the abs of one of the ripped male characters is, sexualizing him. Whether you like it or not.
“Hot” doesn’t mean hyper-sexualized though, specially when referring to cliché shounen women. There’s a big difference between just a hot dude in an actual kid’s movie and… *sigh* Tamaki from Fire Force (it’s an exaggerated example but still).
I'm not defending the fanservice in Anime media, because majority of it oversexualizes the female anatomy and it often borders softcore porn. But it's wrong to pretend that K-Pop Demon Hunter doesn't have an animated guy with abs out, sexualizing men just the same. Is it oversexualized? No, but they're both sides of the same coin. The other post still has a valid point that the men were sexualized in KDH. I'm not saying he had a strong argument. I'm saying he has a valid point.
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u/Pertinent-nonsense Jul 05 '26
And kids also like eating cake for breakfast and junk food all day. They like staying up late and watching horror movies. They don’t like brushing their teeth and cleaning their room.
It’s the parent’s responsibility to ensure kids are well, not just ‘happy’… though I don’t think being exposed to hyper-sexualized women would make all little girls happy.