Influencer reveals gross thing men still say to women in 2023

An Aussie creator has exposed the “baffling” comments too many men are still making about women in 2023.

Aussie creator Corah Fortune has revealed the one fact men can’t seem to grasp, after one of her videos went viral.

The 21-year-old has amassed over a million likes on TikTok by sharing fashion content. She’s constantly doing fit checks, sharing how she’s styling different fashions and trying other trends.

For the most part, her audience seems primarily made up of young women who are excited by the fashion content, and she’s successfully carved out a space for herself on the internet that is largely positive.

Until she went viral on Instagram.

Ms Fortune posted a reel of herself and showed her body from all angles; she wrote that not every angle is “flattering”, but that doesn’t mean our bodies are the “problem”.

This is the video that went viral. Picture: TikTok/thelegendofcorah

She's shown her body from all angles. Picture: TikTok/thelegendofcorah

She looked great and beautiful and, for the most part, women were hyping her up in the comments and discussing how fabulous she looked.

Then the video went viral on Instagram and exposed her to a whole new audience of men that she never wanted to attract in the first place.

Ms Fortune’s post was derailed from a place to discuss fashion and body acceptance, to a place where men commented on her body in a negative way.

She wrote in the comments section of her viral reel that she deleted their comments because she wanted her post to be a “positive” place.

She's revealed what she's learned about men. Picture: TikTok/thelegendofcorah

She's a fashion influencer. Picture: TikTok/thelegendofcorah

Then she took to TikTok to talk about the kind of comments she was getting from men on Instagram and said that the response “pissed” her off because it was so “aggressive.”

What Ms Fortune was most struck by was that men seemed to be in disbelief that other women were hyping her up.

“What I found is men, and it is always men, comment and are like ‘everyone’s lying in these comments’, and I’ve worked out that men think that if they don’t find someone attractive, they think no one else does, and everyone else is lying,” she explained.

The 21-year-old said that these men commenting cruelly on her perfectly normal body can’t “fathom” that other people are being genuine when they compliment her.

“They can’t fathom that people are commenting nice things; the women in my comments actually find me beautiful,” she said.

Ms Fortune said she is ‘pissed off’ by the comments. Picture: TikTok/thelegendofcorah

She's called the men out. Picture: TikTok/thelegendofcorah

Ms Fortune said she finds this logic “baffling” and was shocked to learn that men in 2023 are still thinking like this.

She explained they’ll demand to know why she posts videos of her body when she must know the kind of awful response she’ll get, but the creator argued that her followers love her content and her body.

“Not everyone thinks the same as you,” she pointed out.

Psychologist Carly Dober said this kind of behaviour from men shows a “cognitive bias” that they have.

“It’s a cognitive bias in which if one male cannot conceive of the person in front of them as physically attractive and a potential sexual interest to them, then how can anyone else?” she explained.

“Not being able to have that perspective and understand the diversity in sexual desire and attraction.”

Ms Dober said that this kind of reaction shows that many men still believe attractiveness is based on “conventional” and outdated thinking.

“Many men still believe that attraction is based on conventional societal standards and many of them believe that these standards should remain, even when they are unattainable, edited to smithereens, or attaining this body type creates direct harm to the mental health or physical health of the person that they are looking at,” she said.