GeniesLoki

Also I do totally buy into a "competence" dimension of male attractiveness, and a lot of that may requires motion to be convincing

Yeah. There's also a confidence/comfort in your own body dimension that you *can* see in how someone holds themselves statically but is just instantly visible when someone moves, and that's a big deal.

I'd see it the other way round, personally. Part of the typical feminine ideal of beauty is a certain softness/suppleness that is much clearer in motion. That's not part of the male ideal usually, so I think motion helps women more than men.

Assuming we're talking about pure physicality, and not mannerisms, abilities etc.

Tbh I find that "beautiful still women" thing is a kind of "male gaze beauty" thing that we learn from popular art and photography and stuff, rather than just natural "what we find attractive" Everyone is hotter when they move well

And in fact a lot of the poses of women used in art and photography are kind of exaggerated, unnatural and un-hot Caricatures we learn to fetishism, rather than our default mode of "dayummm"