Originally posted by: chotoranii
thank you for adding to this!! Yes!! So there’s a great article about how there’s actually little sexy in American media now but an assumption of sexy through very muscular (over muscular) bodies and because American media transmits messages globally the same thing has happened in other media spaces! https://bloodknife.com/everyone-beautiful-no-one-horny/ and I can’t find the article but overtly muscular/larger men in Korean shows especially are shown to be the thugs/poor people/bad guys. Fascinating stuff.
Hmmmmm.... There is an essay there somewhere about the pervasive normalisation of body modification through surgical means in South Korea and Japan, and how that ties to wh*te supremacy, xenophobia and patriarchy lol.