Around when did the idea that you can’t have an attractive woman in artwork or entertainment come about? Is the “male gaze” nonsense something fairly new? I remember seeing the “your just mad because you can’t jack off to it” not too long ago on gaming forums if someone pointed out that they seem to make women to look like men.
Yet I’ve heard plenty of women gushing over the Witcher because of Cavill or women who loved Mamoa in GOT and Aquaman. But if I say I’m going to see this movie because the lead actress is hot I’m sexist. Also, it’s interesting how stuff like romance novels have men with rippling muscles but women have to look “realistic”
Even she was just reflecting what the gaming industry wanted to hear back at itself like any old con man.
For a couple of years before that places like RPS had been sniffing their own farts about how they're big boys now, and how they've transcended beyond such petty attraction every time a game made the sex sells mantra a little too obvious.
The initial problem was that people became too naïve and passive to actively mock anyone calling themselves a male feminist out of the business. And that feminists successfully sold the idea that even the most undesirable men -ahemgamesjournalistsahem- could stop being virgins- oh sorry, incels, if they just called themselves male feminists and acted like an obsequious, sniveling, toady loudly enough. Kinda like a toned down version of the 72 virgins, you only get one disinterested hambeast, but you also don't have to martyr yourself, just sacrifice your dignity and any normal art you ever created.