#why officers are hot and grunt soldiers aren't | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bauliya · 2 years ago

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my personal theory of why characters like james bond and indiana jones and batman and the line cook in bear are sexy is that that particular rogue archetype combines working class male attributes of physical violence and manual labour with a bourgeoise genteelness so middle class viewers don't have to deal with the cognitive dissonance of finding male labouring bodies hot but not wanting to fuck poor people

#like thats what gymming boils down to?#men who do physical labour and have the bodies for that are like objectively hot but the class of men that does it for their job are not #viable partners under capitalism for middle class women/mlm #so u settle for a billionaire who beats up criminals in his off time #or an eton-cambridge educated hired killer #like thats why sebastian moran has to be a disgraced lordling yanno. if the middle class readership has to find him hot. he has to have #that social and cultural capital even tho it makes zero sense for his real job #why officers are hot and grunt soldiers aren't #or if grunt soldiers are hot theyre the 'secretly' poetry reading kind #there has to be SOMETHING. to mark them as distinctively NOT working class despite the working class job #LIKE EVEN IN THE BEAR!#the majn character is so fucking hot hes a line cool hes filthy but hes a haute couture chef #he 'approximates' working classness without embodying it so he can be desired yanno #its also v specific to men

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