Obviously arguing logic has limited effects when trying to advocate for Men's Rights. The opposition is too locked in their message and that does not allow much self reflection to consider our arguments.

But a new tactic of flipping a mirror to the more outrageous expectations on modern men has seemed to make an actual dent. At least the opposing view is paying a LOT of attention to the messaging.

I speak of course of the Drizzle Drizzle response to the Sprinkle Sprinkle trend.

I think we could apply this to the Male Gaze trope. Give a me shot here.

Its time to start complaining about culture appealing to the female gaze. It is time for less attractive men and more clothes on them in our media.

Why would I point to this? I think if you aren't familiar with the recent controversies for the video games Steller Blade and Star Wars Outlaws, ten minutes on YouTube will explain it better than this post. The main thrust of my argument is that the Male Gaze is again in people's targets and industries are shifting based on this bias.

Time to flip the mirror. It's time to make the Male Gaze as ironic and hypocritical as possible. A little over the top. Match the energy of the people screaming about the Male Gaze.

Examples:

Thor, Love and Thunder

In the scene with the confrontation with Zeus, they chain the very attractive man (unrealistic body expectations) against his will (enslavement) in public (humiliation) and strip him naked in front of the crowd (SA and dehumanizing). Chris Hemsworth is very attractive and hardly an example of a 'real' man. This is obviously a blatant appeal to the Female Gaze at the expense of dehumanizing men in the eyes of female oppressors and normalizing the ideas of enslaving and SAing men.

This encourages women to believe they are entitled to seeing men held against their will and on display for women to leer at with their perverse Female Gaze.

Magic Mike

A group of unrealistic outstanding physical specimens forced to prostitute themselves to the Female Gaze to make ends meet. These caricatures of real men that exist only because they use steroids and workout 4 to 6 hours a day.

No real man has the time (4 to 6 hours daily) or the resources (steroids, doctors, trainers) to meet this impossible standard that is portrayed as realistic to satisfy dangerously perverse women who get off on focusing their Female Gaze on men pushed into prostitution (human trafficking).

Then these men must dance and perform humiliating acts for their oppressors. These men are forced to slowly reveal their bodies in public for no other reason than to satisfy the lustful Female Gaze. These are sexually groped and are sexually victimized by female patrons into prostitution afterward by women who 'want what they paid for'!

Exploitation. Unrealistic standards. SA. Etc.

Men will die because of this movie.

Think it might work? I am going to have fun trying it.