• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The way it is now is an exaggeration of the female body and few women actually look like that. The irony is that you missed that because you’re so used to the male gaze. (This is not meant to be an insult, it’s literally just the way we were all socialized).

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      3 days ago

      She’s built like an Instagram fitness influencer, which of course few people look like. But she also dressed for exercise, so the physique doesn’t reasonably transfer to the assumption “all women look like this.”

      I didn’t miss that she’s made to look hot, I just thought it could be made more explicit through further exaggeration since most cartoon stylings are already flattering.