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

Posted on 4/16/26 at 10:02 am to
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 10:02 am to
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While true - the 80s did give rise to the hair metal, effeminate looking rock stars.

Glam rock existed long before hair bands. All of those '80s bands got more arse than a toilet seat.
Posted by Ace Midnight
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 10:17 am to
Modern Hollywood is allergic to money, fans, etc.
Posted by theGarnetWay
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 10:25 am to
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. All of those '80s bands got more arse than a toilet seat.


Many probably still could if they had a mind for it.
Posted by LSUPERMAN
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 10:28 am to
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Which makes you a... flamer?


Must have sounded funnier in your head.
Posted by imjustafatkid
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 10:28 am to
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He-Man is apparently about dealing with toxic masculinity, per director and actress


Who is the target audience for He-Man, and when did they start asking for this?
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:21 am to
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Gunn would turn it into a gay loin cloth orgy.
peacemaker aside, that is faaaar more the Taika schtick than Gunn.
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:24 am to
Hair metal wasn't gay, so much as flamboyant masculinity

Glam Rock with Bowie and such was objectively gay

Hell, I'd wager Bowie would proudly admit that.
Posted by wesfau
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:29 am to
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flamboyant masculinity


What?
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:29 am to
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flamboyant masculinity
Jumbo Shrimp

Deafening Silence

Flamboyant Masculinity
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:32 am to
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What?
hyper machismo peacocking.

Think Travolta in Saturday night fever

Or a better example is one Randy Mario Poffo

Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:33 am to
Do you guys not know what flamboyant means?
Posted by wesfau
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:37 am to
Randy Savage and Brett Michaels were giving two very different looks. Masculine wasn't really Michaels's, et al, style.

You can argue, correctly, that there's a confidence in pressing those gender barriers, but it's in no way "masculine" as that word is commonly known.
This post was edited on 4/16/26 at 11:39 am
Posted by Fewer Kilometers
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:42 am to
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Do you guys not know what flamboyant means?
The definition aside, it's something more appropriate for a Grinder profile than on Tinder.
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:43 am to
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pressing those gender barriers,
is what Bowie did

What poison did was more an outgrowth of Disco hyper machismo
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:44 am to
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more appropriate for a Grinder profile than on Tinder.
I'll take your word for that, I suppose
Posted by Saint Alfonzo
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:45 am to
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Hair metal wasn't gay, so much as flamboyant masculinity

Glam Rock with Bowie and such was objectively gay

Hell, I'd wager Bowie would proudly admit that.

Most of those bands were influenced fashion-wise by David Bowie, the New York Dolls, Kiss, Alice Cooper and others. Ratt and Motley Crue really took the stage dress thing further. The Shout at the Devil Motley fashion style was, as they've said, "Mad Max meets Escape From New York." I've never cared for the hair band label, the term didn't exist contemporaneously. But thrash and grunge bands weren't pretty enough to dress that way and get pussy so the term got tossed around as an insult.
This post was edited on 4/16/26 at 1:22 pm
Posted by Roaad
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:51 am to
Influenced, absolutely

But ziggy stardust was very gay, and he was gay in that persona

Hair bands look super gay in retrospect, but so did most shite in the 80s

During that era, people didn't look at what they were doing as anything but masculine

When that sentiment began, the era ended
Posted by molsusports
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:53 am to
I just had the idle thought that someone is going to put Clavicular into an AI version of He-man. And, done well, could be a really funny riff on current popular culture.
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:55 am to
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Clavicular
speaking of gay
Posted by SouthEasternKaiju
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Posted on 4/16/26 at 11:56 am to
Remember when John Francis Daley said this about the Dungeons & Dragons movie, and it wasn’t remotely as bad as he made it out to be? I think this is just bait.

Might be wrong though.
This post was edited on 4/16/26 at 6:11 pm
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