He-Man is apparently about dealing with toxic masculinity, per director and actress

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Knight wanted to push back on some of the more toxic ideas of masculinity, and remembers, "Real men don't cry. Boys don't cry. If you express any kind of vulnerability, you must immediately punch a fence post to establish equilibrium...It was a really interesting way for us to explore these things that are happening in our culture, for us to compare and contrast what that stuff meant in the '80s versus what that means now."

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"It's hard to talk about Teela without talking about her relationship to her father, because I feel like so much of who she is has to do with how she was, I guess, let down as a kid," she explains. "And I feel like that really built this outer wall around her that's sort of like shielding this inner sensitivity. She's affected by toxic masculinity just as much as the men in the film. And I think she's sort of adopted masculinity to protect herself in this very masculine world. It's how she survives. She's in survival mode, and has been for a very long time."

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