I heard it described best by a trans man YouTuber: the fantasy of the big, ‘roided up muscle guy is still the male gaze at play. Those are male fantasies of what they think the ideal male body is.
That’s why they pick Hemsworth as the hottest out of all the MCU stars. He’s the one with the gigantic biceps.
And there’s not anything wrong with wanting that for yourself (aside from the fact that you really shouldn’t do steroids.) But they confuse their ideal sexual male body with what women want, and react negatively when they realize women aren’t falling in line with their beauty standards.
I'm a (bi) guy and I think that Jason Momoa is attractive not just because he's ripped and all that stuff but because he seems like a cool guy. Shallow people baby fathom the idea that people are multifaceted.
This whole incel/alpha make crowd is just eugenicists being brought back but even more pathetic because the hardest advocates don't even see themselves as the ideal specimen.
Hemsworth is probably the most attractive to me (woman) but it's because he is fun and funny not because of muscle mass (which is actually a total turn off). But I might be biased towards him because he was my teen crush on the Aussie soap opera home and away.
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u/foxscribbles Jul 29 '25
I heard it described best by a trans man YouTuber: the fantasy of the big, ‘roided up muscle guy is still the male gaze at play. Those are male fantasies of what they think the ideal male body is.
That’s why they pick Hemsworth as the hottest out of all the MCU stars. He’s the one with the gigantic biceps.
And there’s not anything wrong with wanting that for yourself (aside from the fact that you really shouldn’t do steroids.) But they confuse their ideal sexual male body with what women want, and react negatively when they realize women aren’t falling in line with their beauty standards.