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  • You can actually blame Disney for much of this.

  • Porsche's Taycan is $10k more than the Model S and superior in pretty much every aspect other than range. And even then it has a 250-300 mile range.

    Not to mention it handles better, is based on a well proven frame, has better safety ratings, it's the better car in all bit range and charger availability (and Porsche has committed to setting up chargers in every multiple cities across America)

    And where Porsche chargers do exist: they're faster than the Tesla Superchargers. So.... idk what's this "are not as good" to you? What metric are you using to determine this? Until you articulate what metric you are judging the car from any discussion further than this is pointless.

    Edit: And I've owned both cars. The Taycan is far better on road in my experience in Los Angeles, and I'll be able to tell you how it fares on a cross country trip soon.

    My Tesla was all but forgotten after I got the Taycan.

  • Is it at all feasible to install on an iPhone 13? If it matters the most techy thing about me is that I have a Plex server that my fiancée built for us.

  • The issue is this kind of "charity" is just trying to slap a bandaid on a bursting artery. Not to mention philanthropy in general is a pretty morally grey concept (because capitalism sucks and doesn't work)

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  • That's not objectification. That's not reducing men to a literal object for women's desires. It's a false equivalence. Men are shown to be people in all of the contexts you just listed. In fact you'd be hard pressed to find a romantic comedy where the man isn't a character in their own right. Same goes for dramas. They definitely exist but they're a vast minority.

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  • As a woman, who is into men, and has friends who are also into men. Everyone I know who is into men would say Hiddleston is more attractive than any of them.

    When we say buff men are there for the male gaze what we're saying is that they're filling a male power fantasy of being the "big strong hero" archetype. You'll also notice that all of them were depicted as being complex characters in their own right, absent of just being big and buff.

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  • Brandon Routh is what I imagine as "chick flic" bod. He's in shape but I wouldn't say he's at all "unrealistic" or idealised bodybuilder muscular. Also let's not forget one of the world's most popular chick flicks of all time, The Notebook, had Cage as the lead.

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  • Can you find me an example of a man who serves a similar role to Carly? Find me an example of a male character who is not the protagonist who is there solely to be attractive.

    Because if you're honest you'll have to agree that it is orders of magnitude more common for women to be shown that way than for men.

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  • La Femme Nikita

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  • As a woman who has mostly straight friends.... I don't know a single other woman that finds Hemsworth more attractive than Hiddleston. And most women I know would also say Andy Samberg is very attractive. I don't know many men who would admit that Samberg is attractive.

    Almost universally bodies in media are designed to appeal to men first and women second. There are exceptions, yes, but they are just exceptions.

  • This is just code for bigotry. I don't have the mood necessary for politely explaining it so I won't.