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“Being a self-aware bimbo is amazing: you become everything men want visually whilst also being everything they hate (self-aware, sexually empowered, politically conscious, etc.) Reverse the fetishisation of femininity.”

I doubt there are many modern men who hate "sexually empowered" women. It could be an attack on heteronormativity, but it does nothing to reverse the fetishization of women. LARPing as a female, sex object while retaining the privileges of being male is not subversive.

I think modern media has been so effective at selling objectification of women for decades that men have strongly internalized the desire to be objectified in the same way. All of these political arguments are just rationalizations to explain the subconscious conditioning. And now with people connected to media 24/7, a lot of them probably never get a break from sexually objectifying imagery.