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Handsome men of all time

That's not homophobic but it's answering a question that hasn't been asked. Because a heterosexual man can recognize handsomeness in another man doesn't mean there's an attraction. There's nothing to be sorry about.

He was responding to me. I think there IS a knee-jerk reaction many men have, to say they don't notice if other men are good-looking, because they're afraid that if they do acknowledge it, their straightness would come into question. Deliberately posting on the thread to emphatically assert such a lack of awareness, when they could have just scrolled past, suggests to me that this is what's going on for some.

I think we tend to oversexualize everything in our culture. Beauty is beauty, wherever it's found, and it's a good thing that we should appreciate and be thankful for. We should be able to do that without the desire to possess. Maybe I'm quibbling over words, but I would say another man is handsome... not attractive. The point is not that his looks attract me but that
I can appreciate that he is a good-looking man.
 
He was responding to me. I think there IS a knee-jerk reaction many men have, to say they don't notice if other men are good-looking, because they're afraid that if they do acknowledge it, their straightness would come into question. Deliberately posting on the thread to emphatically assert such a lack of awareness, when they could have just scrolled past, suggests to me that this is what's going on for some.

I think we tend to oversexualize everything in our culture. Beauty is beauty, wherever it's found, and it's a good thing that we should appreciate and be thankful for. We should be able to do that without the desire to possess. Maybe I'm quibbling over words, but I would say another man is handsome... not attractive. The point is not that his looks attract me but that
I can appreciate that he is a good-looking man.
I feel the same way about Benedict Cumberbatch as I do about Gwenyth Paltrow. Both are good looking people that I'm not at all attracted to.
 
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