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 in feminist discourse since the 1950s.
Women are being oppressed because sexy women sets too high expectations for young girls. Patriarchy sees women as nothing more than objects to be posessed and finally women are defined more by their looks than their intelligence because of sexy women.
If you've ever heard of any of the these phrases above. They are the feminists arguments for making women ugly.
I actually don't have any issues with artists making women ugly. That's their choice but I have a big problem with society accepting the feminist rationale as sane and not completely stupid and irrational. Female delusion of behaviour straight jacketted by social constructs should not be taken seriously yet they are.