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[Dutchling]

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[kaijyuu]

Re: romance (porn) novels.


First off I'm using some generalizations here that by no means should be applied to any individual.

A good number of women are subs. They want a big, strong man to come along and sweep them off their feet. That's why the big muscular men.

These books appeal to a very specific audience and the covers accurately reflect that.

[Owlga]

Re: romance (porn) novels.

[Ochita]

nO

[Knit tie]

I know big muscle guys can be objectified sexually too, I can safely say I've played oblivion as a muscular male argonian just to have him bare his chest, beat up mooks and talk cute girls and guys into bed before. Exactly for that reason.

The thing is that there isn't equal opportunity objectification, as Owlga said. You may have your bare-chested lizardman, but the rest of the world has to deal with gratuitious tits and asses, and sometimes lordosis, in every type of mass media on a daily basis. It's just annoying, really. Ripped shirtless guys are relegated to crap romantic novel covers.

I'm not against porn, it's all good harmless fun, but when everybody and their mother sees half-naked, submissive girls everywhere and begins to think that it's natural for a woman to be half-naked and submissive, then it's not porn, it's propaganda.

EDIT:  ninja'd 5 times.

[Dutchling]

Owlga, that's quite the moisteniser you got there.

[Gunner-Chan]

I was just saying it was possible, not equal opportunity yet.

Also olwga, no. No harry mason.

[Knit tie]

I was just saying it was possible, not equal opportunity yet.

We have a long fight ahead of us. You can provide covering fire.

Also olwga, no. No harry mason.

Does Harry Mason actually exist? That cover looked like a badly photoshopped parody.

[kisame12794]

And the real ones aren't cheap photoshops?

[Owlga]

Harry Mason is real if you ask Cheryl.

[Knit tie]

Harry Mason is real if you ask Cheryl.

Silent Hill?

[Mindmaker]

"Nuh-uh, muh sexualization double standard."
I find muscular guys gross and feel agiated when somebody tries to tell me this is my power fantasy.

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Wrinkly old men in wizard hats are.

[Willfor]

"Nuh-uh, muh sexualization double standard."
I find muscular guys gross and feel agiated when somebody tries to tell me this is my power fantasy.

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Wrinkly old men in wizard hats are.

The alpha man stereotype is the only one that matters to our bought-into-the-alpha-lie overlords. Join us on the feminist side to take them down.

[Helgoland]

"Nuh-uh, muh sexualization double standard."
I find muscular guys gross and feel agiated when somebody tries to tell me this is my power fantasy.

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Wrinkly old men in wizard hats are.

Oh-la-la, madam, would you like to come see my... hat collection?

[Flying Dice]

"Nuh-uh, muh sexualization double standard."
I find muscular guys gross and feel agiated when somebody tries to tell me this is my power fantasy.

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Wrinkly old men in wizard hats are.

Oh-la-la, madam, would you like to come see my... hat collection?

"My closet is absolutely magical~" 

What happened to being attracted to a happy medium and desiring the same for yourself? I mean, I get that this tripe is supposed to be fantasy, but people actually buy into it as a realistic expectation.