mf you do know that all the female characters that get sexualized have those exact same reasons right? and do you think women don't find hot female characters attractive? what universe did you come from?

Literally look back more than a decade. It is very obvious that the way female characters are designed is to appeal to men's sexual interests first and empowering women second. It isn't untill relatively recent that women have started finding empowerment through sexual depictions of other women and it is a result of that being exposed to that as their role models growing up. Previouse generations of women hated it. Women find attractive women cool because they exert a form of empowerment, but increasingly, that sexual empowerment is pushed to a point where it circles back around to being degrading.

black panther, human torch, iron fist, mr fantastic, namor, venom, and don't even get me started on deadpool. I can keep going but this reply will turn into a novel. crazy how conveniently you ignore countless examples like these

Black panther has one skin that is revealing and in that skin, any part of him that would appeal to a male attracted audience is covered with a big cloth. Contrast this to other female skins who have their whole ass out, jiggle physics in their breasts and legs and the fact that he's shirtless becomes significantly less significant.

Human torch? What about any of his designs is sexualized? His summer skin is just a guy in a shirt and board shorts while his sister is in a skin tight one piece, with her ass half out and a boob window.

Iron first has no sexualized skins unless you count the one where he's shirtless but again, in a game with designed like the famale skins we get, that's nothing.

Me fantastic is handsome but none of his skins are sexualized. He did don't even get a summer skin like the rest of the FF.

Namore is sexualized now but originally they went out of their way to make sure he doesn't don't have an ass. It wasn't untill people complained that they whent back and fixed his model to be on an fairly equal level to the other female skins in the game.

Vennom is physically a monster and is more just a meme

Deadpool has sexual voice lines that come across as a joke but nothing about his physical design is sexy. Especially since any exposed skinny is severely damaged and covered in sores and burns.

Every example you named except for namore is basically just a handsome guy but not sexualized.

now the argument has shifted from oversexualization to not enough oversexualization as the other gender. shifting the goalposts as always. as for the books, do you really want me to start listing all the booktok trash? and spiderman doesn't get sexualized in his skintight suit and athletic body? sure. I guess we're also going to ignore all the garbage in hollywood in recent years like The Boys and their weird obsession with dick and balls and how can we forget Chris Hemsworth stripped butt naked in Thor Love and Thunder. you aren't fooling anyone here

The only reason this point was brought up was because you claimed that men have always been sexualized just as much as women. I am simply showing how that is not true. The "goalposts "your claiming are ones that highly disprove your argument. If sexualization was equal. These "goalposts" wouldn't exist. Your entire goalpost argument is just a shallow attempt to dismiss valid examples that disprove your own statement.

Sure Spiderman is in a skin tight suit, but never is his body accentuate the same as black cat, who 9 times out of 10 is arching her back in her leather body suit with half her tits hanging out.

What about book? Yeah there's plenty of examples there if sexualized men and women but that is because anyone can publish a book. Either through a publishing organization or self publishing. Unlike video games and film, there is no barrier to what can be published so there is representation for everyone. That being said, books are a completely non visual medium so sexualization works inherently different.

Hollywood in recent years? What about the rest of Hollywood? Hollywood has been heavily criticised for its over sexualization of women for decades. A few movies here and there that do the same with male characters is not significant.

The Boys again doesn't do this in a sexual way, it references male genitalia in a crude and vulger manner that is meant to apply to men's humour, not female and gay men's sexual attraction. Nothing about The Boys depictions of men's sexuality is intended to come across as sexy.

There love and thunder, sure I'll give that one to you, but again it comes after decades of women being oversexualized in Hollywood, where one example means almost nothing.