u/Stunning_Trainer_114
▲ 15 r/MenAreNotIntoWomen
The term “simp” promotes homosociality.
This article from The Tab argues that the label “simp” is often used by men to mock their male peers for showing kindness, affection, or emotional openness toward women. This phenomenon can be connected to the sociological concept of homosociality, which refers to social bonds and validation between members of the same sex, especially among men. Scholars define male homosociality as a system where men seek approval, status, and belonging primarily from other men, often reinforcing dominant masculine norms.
The article also shows how homosocial pressure shapes behavior toward women. One example describes a boyfriend refusing to hold his girlfriend’s hand in public because his friends would call him a “simp.” In this situation, the male peer group becomes more important than the romantic relationship itself. Michael Flood argues that male friendships can organize heterosexual relationships by making male approval the priority and treating emotional closeness with women as potentially feminizing.
u/Stunning_Trainer_114 — 6 days ago
▲ 34 r/MenAreNotIntoWomen
Why are males so nasty towards women in podcasts, meanwhile women are so respectful to them?
E.g Myron, Andrew Wilson, Tate. They all speak about women negatively and cite no sources, they speak from emotion and demean women constantly. Yet the women still respect them and speak kind words about them on the podcast. Why?
u/Stunning_Trainer_114 — 6 days ago
The sexualization of men in entertainment is so normalized and that is a bad thing
All the people who have complained about how normalized the sexualization of women is are blind to how men's bodies have been objectified and no one says anything, it's so normalized that they sexualize men in entertainment aimed at men.
Media like the boys, marvel, or DC has been moralizing about how evil sexualizing women is while they constantly put shirtless scenes, or male nudity, but never do the opposite.
People would riot and protest if that scene where Thor got stripped naked happened to a women, but since male nudity is so normalized no one even bats an eye.
Or what about the people that make being obsessed with femboys their entire personality. That culture is so porn addicted.
No one says anything, society has normalized male nudity to the point that it is seen as very normal.
And some people have the audacity to say that the problem is the double standards, when that is just the symptom of the problem, if I'm a straight man and I want to read a comic book aimed at my demographic I want to see sexy women with beautiful curves, I don't want to see men being objectified, if I wanted to see that type of content I would read something aimed at women but I'm not a woman nor a gay man.
It's a bad thing because it shows comic books creators and mangakas have forgotten their target audience is straight men.
u/DifferenceJolly2320 — 6 days ago