“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?
Feminists like to argue that " women have been sexualized in media and objectified by men overall for thousands of years", when they're the ones who started the sexual revolution in the first place lol. Over sexualized media only started after the sexual revolution happened. If you watch pre 70s media, there is barely any tits and asses shots. Feminists are the ones who made sexualizing women seem okay in the first place. I guess pin up art could count, but that isn't mainstream media and was mostly used for soldiers in war.
There's literally graffitti from ancient Rome of topless women, and of "[name] has a big dick". Before Christ. Sexualization has always happened, because that's basic human nature. The denial of it is an oddity: those saying that sexy women aren't sexy, and that horrific Frankensteinian creations ARE sexy. That's the modern odd trend.
Hmmm, good point.