To be annoyed by this meme regarding knickers?

[UnaCorda]

For the umpteenth time I have come across a photo of an underwear-clad woman seductively and suggestively pulling down the waistband of her pants. It's bad enough that photos of scantily-clad women are so ubiquitous, but this meme really raises my feminist hackles as it's so unnecessary. When do you ever see a picture of a man doing this?

We all know that a woman's vulva and vagina are underneath her pants and we're aware that an early stage of having sex tends to be the removal of said pants, so it's obvious where this choreographed come-hithering comes from, but for the love of Marks and Spencer's lingerie department is it really necessary to spell it out?

Isn’t that a soft porn magazine? Hardly surprising is it

They are particularly objectifying.

I'm not sure how an underwear photo can be anything other than objectifying, or indeed any photo trying to sell clothing. It's about a look. It's not about whether he's got a postgraduate degree or his attitudes towards Jesus

I'm suspicious OP started this thread so we would all send her suggestive pictures of men in their underwear.

Not intentionally - must be my unconscious at work!

Yes that's a magazine cover not a meme you need to go searching for that, you wouldn't accidentally stumble on it.

Or at least the swimsuit issue always is

@ArchbishopOfBanterbury

@UnaCorda, Do You know what a Meme is? I wouldnt class any of your examples as memes.

But theyre selling underwear? Of course it will feature in the picture

It's not about whether he's got a postgraduate degree or his attitudes towards Jesus

GoatyGoatyMingeMinge

You haven't posted an example of said meme

Or this?

A young Mark Whalberg.

Oh wait, you are not talking about memes, you just mean pictures?

Yeah they arent memes just pictures.
YABU there are plenty of pictures like that of men too.

I don't believe that's a meme. It's just a picture.

I'm suspicious OP started this thread so we would all send her suggestive pictures of men in their underwear.

My Husbands just walked in and asked what I was smiling at. Oh just Mumsnet and fit men in their pants.

None of what you've posted is a meme

Tbf these annoying me too as it's contextual and needs to be considered in line with history of objectification and sexualisation of women alongside erosion of rights, sexism and all within heteropatriarchal matrix. The 'oh men are in similar ads' comments don't seem to get that those men's bodies are idealised, they are often positioned in dominating or masculine poses that draw attention to the penis and highlight the strength and prowess whereas the women are often broken into body parts, heads invisible suggesting only parts of them are necessary/redundant and are posed to present a passive, willing sexual partner, from male gaze perspective

In defence of the original poster (who in all other respects is BU!) I'd say the highly sexual photo used to sell underwear is definitely a meme:

A meme (/miːm/ MEEM) is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme. A meme acts as a unit for carrying cultural ideas, symbols, or practices, that can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures, rituals, or other imitable phenomena with a mimicked theme. Supporters of the concept regard memes as cultural analogues to genes in that they self-replicate, mutate, and respond to selective pressures.

When you see them in magazine, draw a little fart cloud 💨 coming from their underwear.

I'm suspicious OP started this thread so we would all send her suggestive pictures of men in their underwear.

We shall try to stay strong
but keep them coming

The firemen round here don't look like that.

Those photos of men in their pants are so disgusting, I've had to have another look just to see how disgusting the are.

Perhaps they're about to go for a wee.

I looked back at all the photos with that in my head and it made me laugh!

Anyway, it DOES objectify women in my opinion.

More a trope than a meme, OP

That sports illustrated one isn't even selling underwear, it's an annual issue that doesn't pretend to be anything other than a good ole perv on womens bodies, but if the models are okay with that it's not something I find objectionable. Their bodies, their choice.

Am I the only one who doesn't find the 'sexy' men pics sexy?