Men should be allowed to feel good about their bodies and selves! But they’re given this image that if they aren’t perfect murder machines they’re fucked for life. Fat men are beautiful. Skinny men are beautiful. Men can and often are very beautiful. But culture forbids them to be called so!
Homophobia really scared dudes off of seeing themselves perceived w/ sensuality. I've talked a lot about how every group I know other than cis women "sexualizes men as if they were women" and I think it's just that any sexualization not rooted in admiration of status/power is going to read-