Is Thor Too Sexy?

[Private Pickle]

What is wrong with men admitting another man is handsome, or attractive, or whatever? I can admit when another woman is attractive... doesn't mean I am a Lesbian.

Heterosexual men, or at the very least I don't work that way. I simply don't know what an attractive man is nor can I gauge if a man is attractive. In addition I find that men in general tend to agree on what an attractive woman is whereas women are all over the map when it comes to physical attraction.

[Chris]

What is wrong with men admitting another man is handsome, or attractive, or whatever? I can admit when another woman is attractive... doesn't mean I am a Lesbian.

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[Kalkin]

Some of the guys around here have voiced concerns about Wonder Woman's hotness.

TBH, I thought the movie was sub-par at best. Weak plot, poor acting. WW has a nice body, though. The new Kingsman movie was much more entertaining.

[IMPress Polly]

Kalkin wrote:
TBH, I thought the movie was sub-par at best. Weak plot, poor acting. WW has a nice body, though. The new Kingsman movie was much more entertaining.

Well that is very much your taste and opinion and nothing more. To use the most objective measure of film quality that I can, let me highlight what the critical review aggregators have to say about Wonder Woman and The Kingsman: The Golden Circle respectively:

-Wonder Woman's approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes is 94%, while that of The Kingsman: The Golden Circle is 49%. In other words, about 19 out of 20 reviewers recommended Wonder Woman, while less than half recommended the second Kingsman movie. The average rating of WW on Rotten Tomatoes is 7.6 out of 10, while that of The Kingsman: The Golden Circle is 5.2.

-The alternative critical review aggregator, Metacritic (which doesn't do approval ratings, just average scores), gave Wonder Woman a 76 out of 100 (same as Rotten Tomatoes) and The Kingsman: The Golden Circle a 44.

Of course, these things are a bit subjective and the critics can be wrong. In my personal opinion, WW deserves a 90%. But I'm trying to be as fair and objective as I can here.

Adelaide wrote:
What is wrong with men admitting another man is handsome, or attractive, or whatever? I can admit when another woman is attractive... doesn't mean I am a Lesbian.

I think there's just more fear of and stigma attached to the idea of being gay, or labeled as gay, in male culture, and complimenting a man's looks is seen as suggesting homosexuality therein.

[Adelaide]

I think there's just more fear of and stigma attached to the idea of being gay, or labeled as gay, in male culture, and complimenting a man's looks is seen as suggesting homosexuality therein.

I think that it might be "built-in" so to speak. Women have almost always had part of their worth determined by how attractive they are (historically). While it also mattered if they had things like dowries, attractiveness was still a major factor. History has even written in about females who were supposed to be great beauties - Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Nefertiti, later various Queens in England and Europe. Society (male and female) seems comfortable determining whether they think a female is attractive or not, while women can look at a man that way but a man feels like he can't or shouldn't view a man that way.

But I am not a man. There could be a disconnect there.

[IMPress Polly]

Adelaide wrote:
I think that it might be "built-in" so to speak. Women have almost always had part of their worth determined by how attractive they are (historically). While it also mattered if they had things like dowries, attractiveness was still a major factor. History has even written in about females who were supposed to be great beauties - Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Nefertiti, later various Queens in England and Europe. Society (male and female) seems comfortable determining whether they think a female is attractive or not, while women can look at a man that way but a man feels like he can't or shouldn't view a man that way.

But I am not a man. There could be a disconnect there.

I would agree with this. Also notwithstanding the fact that I am not a man and may be missing something important as a result.

[nathanbforrest45]

Interestingly I think what young girls are being told by having Wonder Women be bisexual is that women can only be powerful and forceful if they are lesbians. You want to get ahead in the world girl, then go muff diving.

[IMPress Polly]

Nathan wrote:
Interestingly I think what young girls are being told by having Wonder Women be bisexual is that women can only be powerful and forceful if they are lesbians. You want to get ahead in the world girl, then go muff diving.

Conversely, I feel that when there is an entire film genre without a single non-heterosexual character, there is a significant group of girls and women who are being stigmatized by their omission.

[jimmyz]

Every person, gay and straight, male and female, knows if a person is attractive or not. For me to admit, if asked, that X Hollywood hunk male was good looking or not does not affect my masculinity in the least.

I wish I had Thor's good looks. I'd become the new Hugh Hefner so to speak. Granted, Hugh was what I would call an ugly (in the face) man.

[resister]

Every person, gay and straight, male and female, knows if a person is attractive or not. For me to admit, if asked, that X Hollywood hunk male was good looking or not does not affect my masculinity in the least.

I wish I had Thor's good looks. I'd become the new Hugh Hefner so to speak. Granted, Hugh was what I would call an ugly (in the face) man.

Does not matter how old ugly or fat one is, as long as the got the scratch!