I remember reading a fascinating thread on the old forum about how FF12's Balthier is extremely attractive to women, because he hits a lot of the points that straight women more broadly tend to look for in a fantasy man. Straight men attempting to create an 'equivalent' sexualized male are a lot more likely to appeal to gay men than straight women because they're approaching sexualization from a male standpoint. Men are more sexually obsessive over attractive women than women are over attractive men.Īnd of course all of this is extremely heteronormative. Women are generally not stimulated or aroused in the same way or degree men are. A shirtless man is less sexual than visible cleavage on a woman by society's standard.ī. Men's bare chests are extremely normalized in society, as opposed to women's chests being so overly sexualized that many people consider even breastfeeding a child in public to be a lewd and inappropriate display. Click to shrink.And part of the problem is that you can't just 'equally balance' it out with some hot shirtless men.Ī.
