After church this morning I had to run by the grocery store and I passed by the book area and like a lot of grocery stores they had a good chunk dedicated to those trashy romance novels. Those have started to annoy me in the past few years due to how we have to hear the nonsense of "the male gaze" or "appealing to a male standard of beauty". Interesting how in any media marketed to women that the men are in great shape or how women can say that they have no interest in comic books but they want to see Superman because they think Cavill is hot. That is fine, but then it is ok for me to enjoy an attractive woman on the screen. After hitting puberty I've been guilty of seeing some bad movies simply because one of the leads was a hot woman and while I am somewhat ashamed to admit it, when I was in the Air Force I bought every Fiona Apple cd because I thought she was amazingly hot.

If a show like SNL had any guts they could do a skit where they are at a comic con panel where some rabid blue haired feminists are whining about the male gaze and someone just puts a bunch of those romance novels on the table in front of them.

Like I said, it is a blatant double standard but I don't see it going away anytime soon.