Have you compared male sex symbols from the 1960s and 1970s and now? Today the ideal is a 6ft4 muscular Viking with tribal tattoos and a thick beard. How can masculinity be in decline when every show is about hunter-gatherer warrior men running around covered-in-blood fighting and pillaging? All the new sex symbols (at least mainstream ones) are of taller stature, vastly more muscular than their predecessors, and even if their skin might be smoother, their physiques are like those of professional body builders in the past.

The beauty ideal for men today is what Baywatch was for women in the 1990s (unwelcoming for all body types except busty yet thin and with legs for days), but literally on steroids.

>but what about kpop and that guy from Dune

What about tall men with wide shoulders and body fat levels so low you can see their perfectly sculpted jawlines? And even with all that they're still niche.

tl;dr: I told a girl (at french class) to look up Alain Delon, she did and thought he was ridiculously feminine looking for a leading man. She then showed this picture of Jason Momoa telling me I obviously can't rate men properly since I'm a straight guy.