Why does the title need to be worded like that? The worst part is that I’ve only seen them phrased like this with women celebrities.

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It’s clickbait. The fact that the clickbait is demeaning is incidental. They’re maximizing whatever sensational clickbait title they can get. At least their heart isn’t intentionally evil, just incidentally evil.

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Then there are guys like me who are like… “I want to see this mini dress!”

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And a bunch of people saying “OMG, it’s Florence Pugh …… and she’s even fitter !!!”

(I assume, but not taking the bait)

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I wish we had more actresses with muscles. Imagine a wonder woman movie where wonder woman actually looks like an Amazon who has been working out all day every day for decades

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As opposed to a zionist

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Oh god, not everything has to loop back to this

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Target is both to hit your sense of justice (I’m a male feminist) but also engage the innate urge to see the photos. Example

Anne Hathaway criticized by chauvinists for being too sexy on the red carpet

Oh wow, I hate sexism so much I better check out these photos!! so I can…support women?

It CAN work for men but is usually not demeaning. Chris Pratt went from adorable pudge to sexy muscleman, click here to see him shirtless! Not the same I guess.

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My instinct would be to click just to find out what exactly is “too sexy” for chauvinists. Same logic applies to the original post’s article I guess.

I think these articles exploit this instinct. And I’m pretty sure it works for all kinds of people. When you put an opinion piece in some other people’s mouth, everyone will want to find out if the opinion makes sense to them or if it’s completely outrageous.

“Some people said this about this subject, come judge by yourself (and prove them wrong/right)”

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The correct answer is to block that news site or whatever they call themselves, and don’t give them clicks.

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The whole article is almost certainly demeaning, as you would expect of a celebrity gossip rag.

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