reminds me of the absolutely sanitized annual ritual of People's (Time's? Newsweeks? IDEK) "sexiest man alive" which is always, like, the cleanest whitest most symmetrical except for his hair man we could find and has literally nothing to do with sexiness.
and it's not ONLY visual media either! a lot of written romances lean very heavily on chiseled jaw-broad shoulders to make someone "sexy."
Contrast with, for ex, @kj_charles, who has multiple heroes with narrow shoulders. Really, when was the last time you read a book with a main character described as having narrow shoulders? and be presented as sexy?! And they ARE sexy, because their love interests find them so,
because of the way they behave and care and interact and respond to problems and because it's not all about the shape of the body! There are also broad-shouldered MCs in KJ Charles, they're not all narrow-shouldered. In fact they vary in almost everything. Except sexy. Which is
kind of the opposite of the almost uniform body type that, as that article describes, we are fed in most media as the ONLY criteria for sexiness.
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