Teedub said:
There was a few mentions of the film Magic Mike and how men didn't complain about it. That's right, even the ugliest beta gimps on planet earth did not form Tumblr pages to rant about it. Shows you the differences between ugly men and ugly women, or at least how one group is encouraged to embrace victimhood.
Exactly.
I'm FUCKING SICK of this shit.
What Feminists and their wimpy barely-male supporters keep failing to point out is men have been sexually-objectified by the media for the majority of my life.
In Australia, Women's Magazine Cleo started having nude male cheesecake centerfolds in the 1970's. It was sold unrestricted. Male strippers also became a thing with the Chippendales in the 70's. The Diet Coke Commericals of the mid-eighties were famous for their ripped male models, so much so, that they've recently brought back a campaign to pay homage to it. Since more women buy products than men, the majority of ads either feature objectified men or 'dumb' men.
Even in the early 90's, every female friend or girlfriend I met had male cheesecake posters or calender in her room. I knew a girl who was obsessed with Hugo Boss ads, (impossibly handsome men in suits).
The late 80's and 90's started objectifying rugby league and AFL players with sexy commercials and photoshoots. I was friend with a sports photographer in the early 90's, and I asked why every shot of rugby players seemed to involve water, and he responded "Women associate water and wetness with sex. The shots of them pouring water on themselves or in the pool are to sell them as sex symbols to women."
Every male movie and television star seems more likely to be objectified than a woman, and you can tell when they're being set up for the female and gay gaze because they've waxed off every trace of body hair. Even in 'Blurred Lines', the tits aren't lingered on the way a male's body is in a mainstream show aimed at women and gays, like 'True Blood'.
So when a weak 'parody' like this comes along, which basically amounts to "Ha! Ha! We're objectifying men! How does it feel guys?", I just have to wonder about the pathetic intelligence behind the 'statement'.
Male objectification has been the cultural norm for a good forty years or more, yet they act like it's they're still blazing a trail through the wilderness.
