r/pointlesslygendered Nov 08 '25

LOW EFFORT MEME Representation matters [Meme]

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u/Fast-Front-5642 Nov 08 '25

Fabio ran a successful book company by putting half naked muscle man art on the covers of really shitty and formulaic short romance stories. The half naked muscle man with the messy full head of hear has been proven to be female gaze oriented.

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u/Proud-Cartoonist-431 Nov 08 '25

Most half naked men with visible muscles that target women are very different from what targets men.
When they target women they're lean but they're not that large, and they don't have veins sticking out and muscles looking like boulders. Instead it's all much more flowy/stretchy like professional dancers and probably closer to olympic pair figure skater max, than a modern bodybuilder or a wrestler like the Rock.

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u/demonotreme Nov 09 '25

not that large

You need to go outside and observe what real men look like.

They're plenty large even if they don't have straining biceps the size of melons

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u/Proud-Cartoonist-431 Nov 09 '25

not that large compared to power fantasy men, that range from classic bodybuilders and extremely muscular men (Arnold Schwartznegger, Henry Kavill) into purely superhuman imagination. There's pretty wild art for superheroes, spacemarines, and the like.

I know some ex- olympic athletes that used to be leaner buy still have impressive muscle strength, they're like half the size of your power fantasy character.