• M68040 [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    “increase of this body type…” Or perhaps anatomy’s always been more complicated and more variable than the greek statue dipshit thought it was. How much time do these guys actually spend looking at people?

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    this is so utterly stipid. women are attracted to athletic men, why shouldn’t it be the other way round? physical fitness is a sign of health and therefore desirable

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      What are you talking bro? If woman big strong, means she not small and weak and need big strong man (me) to protect her from all dangers and get validation for my increasingly fragile sense of self worth put in place by generations of archaic social conditioning.

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      They think they would have been a knight or philosopher or some warrior if they went back in time. Odds are they would be a peasant being ground into the dirt by nobles and still kissing their asses. It’s because they love imagining a different reality where they wouldn’t be the wimpy ass spineless cowards they are now.

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      Fetishizing ancient Greece and Rome as the birthplace of Western Civilization whose ideals our immoral society’s have degraded from.

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          They are often extremely muscular statues with god like bodies. The Romans and the Greeks themselves were believed to have painted them in all kinds of colors but along the way they came to represent whiteness as the most pure and perfect form. It’s basically the literal version of whitewashing history.

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            There’s also some worship of (an idealized form of) ancient Rome and Greece here. They see their particular theme park version as a peak example of a society unmarred by the millieu of things they consider dege[…]ate.

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    Yep, this straight man even knows who that is in the picture.

    Emily Rolfe has one of the most beautiful physiques on the planet.

    Form is function.

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    Most of the time I’m just glad that my brain is like: ‘that person is hot’ regardless of gender and I don’t ever have to worry about how me liking another person is perceived by some weirdos

  • These dudes are always the weirdest closet cases… I feel like they like femboys because they have secondary traits that society has deemed “feminine” and need a way to explain how they aren’t LGBTQ+ by suggesting the opposite is somehow true. Just accept everyone is on the spectrum to some degree and carry on.

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    Yeah this is fun to dunk on and all but it’s weird and slightly annoying to act like this is a common thing with straight men. It isn’t. Majority of men seeing those women would talk about how hot they are.

    Idk why but Twitter is a cesspool with every Heterosexual stereotype out there and magnified to make it seem like it’s more common than it is.

    If this were some dumb shit about how cooking and liking the arts meant you were gay then yes it would be more realistic. I hear that shit all the time.

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      I just read through the thread and tried to mentally filter for people saying it’s a common thing. Didn’t find anything particularly overt in that way. Don’t think anyone was making claims as to how common it is either way, but I guess I could have missed it.