Well, there is harem manga for both sexes..?
It's hard to talk about this since I myself am asexual and don't even experience sexual attraction hurrdurr. :C!

It seems anime and manga are a lot better at being geared for women, though it still has fairly extreme objectification in some of the series. I think each series having pretty much one author rather than being a property of the publishing company that gets its writers and drawers changed periodically has a lot to do with it. (A western comic publisher is a lot more wary about trying anything new, while a manga publisher gets so many potential comics that they can allow them to try out new things, and just let the commercial selection take its' course.)

The point of that was originally to showcase how ridiculous and stupid the poses looked. They originated from criticism on female posing that actually has no sense and isn't really sexy, either. (Which comes from comic book artists only learning from other comic books, which leads to this hideous cycle)

I don't think people who are attracted to women have such singular tastes either - if this equal sexualization took place, purely in the interest of satisfying the entire audience, then they would have to have all the different body types present. People can like muscular, chubby or thin women, just like they can like muscular, chubby or thin men.



Slightly off the sexualization mark, but I was thinking about pokemon. Basically, it allows for one male, and one female. This is equal I think , both females and males have equal exposure.



note: also notice that Im a single person and not representing the interests of the entire female or feminist community - so please take that into consideration. Just in case.

Sexualising men and women in the same way, as in, both evoke the same sense of lust or whatever it is supposed to evoke, rather than men being the heroes and women being the fuckdolls. (excuse my language but getting kinda frustated in having to say this over and over again)

For the water, what about just horizontal waves? think horizontal shine-lines moving left and right.

I think the problem with the color is way too much saturation. The dirt clashes with both the water and the grass because they have the same level of saturation. Making the dirt grayer and slightly darker could help with that.