“What would be considered”. Sorry
I help out with the youth group at church and one of the students is in the 10th grade and he is pretty retro (loves movies and tv shows from the 80s and 90s). He used to be a big Star Wars fan and lost interest due to "disney making it a princess product" as he puts it. He was asking me the other day how did all this happen or when did it start, and I couldn't pinpoint an exact person who started this but had some ideas.
What did start it all? I know Ghostbusters 2016 seems to be the first movie to actively be made to piss off fans (when the original director was trying to do Ghostbusters 3 and they screwed him over). With Star Wars, if they wanted to appeal to actual women who were fans they could've used Jaina Solo or Mara Jade.
Was it in gaming? I remember when gaming magazines seemed to have constant articles about women in gaming or about the "abuse" they received online as if they have never heard the language you hear where guys get together and hang out.
Comic books? I mean they literally made comics of women sitting around the table discussing feelings and as Eric July said "modern comics are made for 14 year old girls on tumblr who don't read comics"
So honestly who is patient zero or who is to blame?
Funny also how they post shitty "Hawkeye initiative" edits of men in women's outfits in video games ( for example, they will make a shitty edit of a man wearing cammys leotard for example) to show " how do you boys like it if you were sexualized in media!", as if anyone told them they couldn't make their own shitty fujo bait yoai games with men dressed as gay strippers in them, while they're the ones demanding that people they can't draw sexy women because of ideological and moral faggorty reasons ( men seeing chun lis ass will contribute to them objectifying women irl!).
Women hate competition(even made-up competition) and think men will respond like women to other handsome men.
When, y'know, we just don't fucking care.
To feminists, handsome muscular men in media aren't sexualized but a " male power fantasy" for the male audience to self-insert into. Men in media can only be sexualized to them if men are sexualized the exact same way women are ( shots of their dicks and ass and wearing women's lingerie). In fact, feminists think it's an injustice that men aren't sexualized the same way women are in media. The problem is that these people tend to forget that men and women aren't the fucking same, and therefore what men like in women isn't the same as what women like in men.