Great analysis! I feel like a lot of male-targeted sexual started as a half-joke, almost as a way to “get back” at men for making women feel uncomfortable, but it has definitely gone way too far. It’s ironic how it inadvertently ended up propping up patriarchal views of masculinity and what it means to be a “real man” or whatever. Some of the comments I’ve seen online about Luigi are WILD. Like, beyond the point of reason. Women have gone insane projecting their desires and shadow selves onto him, and they barely even know what his actual voice sounds like. It makes no sense to me. Thank you for taking the time to call it out as it is.
well, my intention with the article was that men objectify men to a greater and more damaging extent than women could ever objectify them--because it's an invention of the patriarchy. That is, women's objectification of men isn't the issue. It's the patriarchy that's the issue.
Definitely agree there. Men do way more damage to other men than we do to them. I cannot tell you how many times a man has been speechless that I don’t care about the shit he was raised to think women care about.
Great analysis! I feel like a lot of male-targeted sexual started as a half-joke, almost as a way to “get back” at men for making women feel uncomfortable, but it has definitely gone way too far. It’s ironic how it inadvertently ended up propping up patriarchal views of masculinity and what it means to be a “real man” or whatever. Some of the comments I’ve seen online about Luigi are WILD. Like, beyond the point of reason. Women have gone insane projecting their desires and shadow selves onto him, and they barely even know what his actual voice sounds like. It makes no sense to me. Thank you for taking the time to call it out as it is.
well, my intention with the article was that men objectify men to a greater and more damaging extent than women could ever objectify them--because it's an invention of the patriarchy. That is, women's objectification of men isn't the issue. It's the patriarchy that's the issue.
Definitely agree there. Men do way more damage to other men than we do to them. I cannot tell you how many times a man has been speechless that I don’t care about the shit he was raised to think women care about.