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”
It's been around since the 60's. Had zero traction outside communist-infested academia until the mid 90's when it started first started slipping into the mainstream under a cloak of 'think of the children!'
The 2000's saw cartoon boobs gradually banished from western animation (animators often compensated by giving female characters gigantic asses instead), and by 2010 it was really starting to seep into western videogames.
By 2014 there were no tits bigger than double D in western videogames.