Post #3302066
2026-06-05 05:53 UTC
Guess they’ve never seen all of the statues of Athena, Artemis and Aphrodite. You don’t get as many nude female statues because it was usually considered obscene for women to be naked in public.
But the Greek male statues were fully nude and depicted ripped mortal men because they were made in line with Aristotle’s idea of good art being educational. Those were arguably the marble version of “git gud, scrub”.
If there were more male “perfect” body statues at the time, which we can’t establish because many have been lost over the millennia, it might actually be evidence that men were considered less attractive and they needed more body shaming to fix it?
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@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2026-06-06 02:47
Right they were “lost over time”. You’ve got a bunch of ripped naked Greek guy statues in your basement don’t you