On a technical level most men are (or at least >50% of US adults are married). But marriage is mostly a focus because it’s easy to see (photos of one’s wedding). In reality OP and the commenters are speaking more broadly (one commenter mentioned she’d want to know if her BF was doing it). Once you include just being in a relationship in general, it’s definitely most men (over all age brackets).
The statement isn’t necessarily defensive but reads like that to me in context:
Call me a floozy, but hey, I’m comfortable in my own skin and at the end of the day, it’s an advertisement.
I don’t think it was just that. I think she’s fine with men liking the ads. She does have an aversion of married men following her.
Sure, cause that’s the point (so long as she can’t tell they’re married). Also I don’t think there’s a big difference between liking and following. Arguably it’s a similar user interaction and people often do both. So while she changes the subject slightly (from liking to following), the implication and attitudes are the same. It’s not a substantial difference.
Did op say they were in a relationship? I think they may be fine with guys not in a relationship liking her/following her.
It doesn’t matter if she was in one. Also, she presumably will be in one in the future, so even if she wasn’t atm it doesn’t matter much. My point was the double standard around women doing thigs that are meant to (at least in part) get the attention of men but then complaining when it gets men’s attention. The onlyfans attitude in the comments is similar (unless maybe the commenter stopped doing onlyfans because she had a change of heart about whether she should do it at all).
Also is posting the issue here? I thought the issue was around the followers. She’s not grossed about stuff related to posting, but stuff relates to followers.
Posting is something I’m critical of. Her issue was around likes (though she changed to follows when mentioning the ad).
Married men shouldn’t use Instagram to look at attractive women and attractive women shouldn’t post?
re: men, I roughly agree with the idea that deliberately scrolling and seeking that content is a mild form of cheating, so wrt men in general in relationships, yes. (Also vice versa)
re: women, I think in general people should avoid posting suggestive or “innocent swimsuit photo[s]” or borderline risque photos of themselves online. I think it’s an uncooperative behavior, and it’s reasonable for people not to want to be with someone who does that. The second part is really the point, though, because women often act like there is nothing problematic about posting that kind of content and disagreement is dismissed and chalked up to patriachy or men being awful or whatever.