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I tend to see more recently among female communities and fandoms, to be an increasingly large popularity in both Anime and IRL about pretty boys in media, a good example being the "Bishonen", with more androgynous males alongside homofetishism and Androheterophobia within said groups for things like "BL" (Boy's Love) I think it would be important to understand how women find these said men attractive in their media akin to how they find "Traditional" more "alpha" men that have also been very prevalent within communities of teenage/Young Adult girls and women for the longest time in YA media such as Fifty Shades of Grey and Twilight. | I tend to see more recently among female communities and fandoms, to be an increasingly large popularity in both Anime and IRL about pretty boys in media, a good example being the "Bishonen", with more androgynous males alongside homofetishism and Androheterophobia within said groups for things like "BL" (Boy's Love) I think it would be important to understand how women find these said men attractive in their media akin to how they find "Traditional" more "alpha" men that have also been very prevalent within communities of teenage/Young Adult girls and women for the longest time in YA media such as Fifty Shades of Grey and Twilight. | ||
: It could be added as a subsection to the "rise of androgyny" section, as that discusses the increase in depictions of androgynous people in the media as an ideal. This also overlaps with female hebephilia, so a discussion of that could be interesting.[[User:Altmark22|Altmark22]] ([[User talk:Altmark22|talk]]) 04:00, 23 September 2021 (UTC) | : It could be added as a subsection to the "rise of androgyny" section, as that discusses the increase in depictions of androgynous people in the media as an ideal. This also overlaps with female hebephilia, so a discussion of that could be interesting.[[User:Altmark22|Altmark22]] ([[User talk:Altmark22|talk]]) 04:00, 23 September 2021 (UTC) | ||
::Might it also be the case that the increase in the prevalence of pretty boys indicates a possible decrease in sexual dimorphism between men and women? If this is indeed the case, then hypothetically speaking, it hints at selection toward monogamy. We can infer this from the fact that male Gorillas are nearly twice the size of female Gorillas, indicating a polygynous mating whereas the Gibbon (whom features a monogamous mating system) has almost no sexual dimorphism. The reason for this seems to be because of male competition over access to females. In polygynous systems, like that of the Gorilla, male-male competition over females is intense and will result in only the largest males mating with all of the females, whereas in the Gibbon male-male competition is scant and thus there are no selective pressures for males to be larger. Thus it follows that if male-male competition is abated, sexual dimorphism will reduce. It seems to be the case that humans have undergone a significant reduction in sexual dimorphism since we were still hominids. As our recent ancestors exhibited a polygnous mating system, the introduction of monogamy has caused a long-term reduction in sexual-dimorphism overall. | |||
My speculation amounts to this, the increase of the prevalence in pretty boys signals a possible decrease in sexual dimorphism which would indicate selection toward monogamy. However, I find this hard to believe since rates of infidelity and divorce are much higher than they were only 70 years ago; sexual debut amongst teenagers seems to be earlier and earlier with each passing day (something typical of r-selected behaviour). I find this quite perplexing as to why there might be an increase in androgyny but a simultaneously shift away from monogamous behaviours. I was wondering if any of you had any ideas that could possibly remediate this seemingly contradictory set of events. | |||
-K | |||
== Fraternal Birth Order and Maternal Age as Main Focus == | == Fraternal Birth Order and Maternal Age as Main Focus == | ||