Why do girls like feminine boybands like k-pop and before them, the backstreet boys / westlife and so on ?
Okay so I've been going through all the responses in this thread so far and there are various opinions on this subject, each of them having a unique perspective on this issue.
I don't believe that there is a single correct answer to this although many have hinted that their attraction to such boybands has a great deal to do with these girls being in their puberty / adolescent stages of their lives and also throw in the fact that they are famous (social proof) and yes, I'm inclined to believe that.
Girls are extremely sensitive to social cues.
If society venerates and worships people who may not look masculine at all, girls would be heavily swayed by that opinion and their hamsters would think, "society and media and news channels as a whole seems to be very interested in this guy and this group, therefore they must be very interesting and therefore even I must get to know them."
It would be another matter if say hypothetically, after interacting with these guys, the girls find out that their true nature is pretty effeminate.
That would definitely lower their attraction for these boy bands that they had prior for them.
The girls are not attracted to these boy bands for their singing talents, no.
The reason they are attracted to them is because these girls see that society is putting them up on a pedestal a.k.a social proof.
Okay so I've been going through all the responses in this thread so far and there are various opinions on this subject, each of them having a unique perspective on this issue.
I don't believe that there is a single correct answer to this although many have hinted that their attraction to such boybands has a great deal to do with these girls being in their puberty / adolescent stages of their lives and also throw in the fact that they are famous (social proof) and yes, I'm inclined to believe that.
Girls are extremely sensitive to social cues.
If society venerates and worships people who may not look masculine at all, girls would be heavily swayed by that opinion and their hamsters would think, "society and media and news channels as a whole seems to be very interested in this guy and this group, therefore they must be very interesting and therefore even I must get to know them."
It would be another matter if say hypothetically, after interacting with these guys, the girls find out that their true nature is pretty effeminate.
That would definitely lower their attraction for these boy bands that they had prior for them.
The girls are not attracted to these boy bands for their singing talents, no.
The reason they are attracted to them is because these girls see that society is putting them up on a pedestal a.k.a social proof.