Warbler said:

Gaffer Tape said: Which leads into a subsidiary problem: sexualized females are deemed appropriate in movies marketed towards males and females. Sexualized males are usually only deemed appropriate in movies marketed towards females. That seems a bit odd.

I thought action movies were usually marketed towards men. Do you think there were many women that went to see The Dark Knight that weren't dragged there by husbands and boyfriends?

Actually, yeah, I'm sure there were, as it was the biggest movie of that year. In fact my (stupidbitchwhore) ex dragged me back there the same day after we'd already seen it because she had to see it again.

But I wasn't necessarily talking about action movies, even though that's the original point of this thread. I was talking about media in general. Male fanservice can spring up pretty much anywhere in anything, but female fanservice is generally relegated to female-targeted things. But that's really more to do with men being too whiny homophobic to handle it.