In the US "slutshaming" is part of the progressive stack so in a sense of unity, and voting on HN is often used to enforce political norms. So people who would downvote someone for using the N-word, for example, are attacking you to earn their good boy points because they're all in it together, etc.
There are other interesting examples along your example of @sexyengineer.
One is in the area of cooking your example has long existed where theoretically the genre is "cooking" but in practice there are two distinct types of shows, the shows were the woman is in a revealing cocktail dress or date night attire while cooking with fantastic hair and makeup and by cis hetro standards is extremely hot, while the cooking knowledge and recipes are on the level of "cooking" a pb&j sandwich, vs real "cooking" shows where an average looking person, often below average in appearance due to being an older experienced teacher, educate you about cooking. For a variety of TV formula risk minimization strategies there is in practice essentially no overlap. Online, without hollywood execs, things can get weird and cross over. This is actually very comical in the foodie world, there are well known sayings about cooking shows where you can tell within seconds what kind of show you're watching by either seeing a lacy lingerie bra or a (dirty) apron, although they're all categorized as "cooking" shows.
Another interesting example is in woodworking there are real woodworking educational TV shows with average to below average older shop teacher type human bodies where you'll actually learn something, and there's one PBS woodworking show with a tall highly muscular male model from Boston who my wife finds very handsome but I've stopped watching because the carpentry content level is low.
Its fundamentally a difference between people who are looking for a strong attractive personality perhaps with a theme they enjoy; essentially this is every pr0n movie plot, ever. Meanwhile there are people looking for content and information. Do you want to hang out with a beautiful and stylish woman in her kitchen for a half hour, or are you looking for the official USDA food safety heating temp in deg F for ground pork? There's nothing wrong with either in any moral or ethical sense, but you'll see lots of weird lashing out and anger from people who want/need one and get accidentally stuck with the other, and people REALLY freak out when there's trans content bridging the gap and its hard to tell from second to second whats titillating pr0n and what is a reference manual.
There is likely an analogy for hard vs soft sci fi.
One way of looking at it is we very poorly label and identify content in TV and online such that we lump personality and appearance shows in the same named genre. Is the setting of a carpenters workroom merely the background of a pr0n flick or is the carpentry the main point and the actor is merely there as voice talent? Its the same for cooking, and in this weird case, engineering.
There are other interesting examples along your example of @sexyengineer.
One is in the area of cooking your example has long existed where theoretically the genre is "cooking" but in practice there are two distinct types of shows, the shows were the woman is in a revealing cocktail dress or date night attire while cooking with fantastic hair and makeup and by cis hetro standards is extremely hot, while the cooking knowledge and recipes are on the level of "cooking" a pb&j sandwich, vs real "cooking" shows where an average looking person, often below average in appearance due to being an older experienced teacher, educate you about cooking. For a variety of TV formula risk minimization strategies there is in practice essentially no overlap. Online, without hollywood execs, things can get weird and cross over. This is actually very comical in the foodie world, there are well known sayings about cooking shows where you can tell within seconds what kind of show you're watching by either seeing a lacy lingerie bra or a (dirty) apron, although they're all categorized as "cooking" shows.
Another interesting example is in woodworking there are real woodworking educational TV shows with average to below average older shop teacher type human bodies where you'll actually learn something, and there's one PBS woodworking show with a tall highly muscular male model from Boston who my wife finds very handsome but I've stopped watching because the carpentry content level is low.
Its fundamentally a difference between people who are looking for a strong attractive personality perhaps with a theme they enjoy; essentially this is every pr0n movie plot, ever. Meanwhile there are people looking for content and information. Do you want to hang out with a beautiful and stylish woman in her kitchen for a half hour, or are you looking for the official USDA food safety heating temp in deg F for ground pork? There's nothing wrong with either in any moral or ethical sense, but you'll see lots of weird lashing out and anger from people who want/need one and get accidentally stuck with the other, and people REALLY freak out when there's trans content bridging the gap and its hard to tell from second to second whats titillating pr0n and what is a reference manual.
There is likely an analogy for hard vs soft sci fi.
One way of looking at it is we very poorly label and identify content in TV and online such that we lump personality and appearance shows in the same named genre. Is the setting of a carpenters workroom merely the background of a pr0n flick or is the carpentry the main point and the actor is merely there as voice talent? Its the same for cooking, and in this weird case, engineering.