Media characters, especially women, skew heavily towards a narrow ideal of attractiveness, we all know that and the rebellion against that is understandable, but Tumblr still seems to have no idea what’s “realistic” vs “unrealistic” in that regard. I see human beings at any regular grocery trip whose bodies would have been redlined as impossible by an art blog. Clothing too. “Real clothes don’t hug people’s curves that much!!!” say countless guides. Yeah they can actually. All the time. The full blown boobsock effect happens. I see buff dudes walking around whose abs can be counted through their shirt. If someone isn’t wearing underwear, shit bounces around just as much as the average anime, and yes people definitely do walk around with wedgies perfectly outlining each ass cheek. You don’t have to go out of your way and stare to notice this, just like, go places where people exist? Some artists have just really gotta quit conflating “I just don’t like that this artist could have maybe been horny about this” (which isn’t a great sentiment to begin with) with “this is actually bad and sloppy art.”
The actual unrealistic and shitty part was always more the implicit suggestion that only young and skinny people are sexy, and that women always need to be sexy if you’re meant to like them. That’s what really made it weird.
sometimes I send my partners nude pics of me deliberately doing the pose that shows off both boobs and butt, the one that always gets replies going “ow her back is broken!” if you draw it. sometimes I even caption it “ow my back is broken!” (my back is not in fact broken.)