Let’s Talk Toxic Masculinity in Braveheart, Gladiator, The Northman, and …..

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Men In Tights

Gotdam. What was he trying to draw

Mark Ruffalo has all the intensity and on-screen charisma of a wet turnip.

Gibson made you forget his physique.

The villains are toxic. The male leads are heroic.

We've culturally gone full retard with the idea of toxic attached to a gender term. Leadership and strength are being intentionally misunderstood to be bad when portrayed in men.

This is sexism by any rational definition

Not sure if you have noticed or not, but it seems like most males in the younger generations don't act like real men.

These types of movies probably intimidate them and makes them have anxiety attacks.

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These new “Super Hero” types like Tom Holland

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Spider-man is supposed to be a high school kid.
so he should be lean and cut, but not huge by any stretch.

and has been since his creation several decades before any body bitched about things like this.

Imagine starting a thread telling the world you define your masculinity by what mass media you consume. And that you not only fail to see the irony in that, you want to promote that for others.

This is maybe the perfect example of man-children behavior. Grown men hyper pissed at the world because of changes in mass media that they use to define their identity. So those changes literally become an affront to their very being, because their very being is defined by little more than the media they consume, with their hyper tribalist politics serving as an underlying religion.

…Which aren’t even good examples. You listed 3 actors playing the role of Spider Man. Are you under the impression that Spider Man was ever something other than an awkward nerdy teen with one-liners that managed to gain superpowers? There is nothing about that character that screams Arnold Schwarzenegger or Maximus Aurelius. Same with the Hulk. The character is literally a weakling scientist with repressed anger issues that transforms and loses control of his body to that rage due to gamma rays, but Bruce Banner is not some model of 80’s and 90’s action hero lol. Or would ever be conceived as some sort of healthy role model for young men. If anything much of his story is a cautionary tale to men about the very sort of repressed anger the OP is signaling, and that if you can’t get it under control it will consume you and turn you into a monster

Yeah this is a silly thread as constructed.

If you are a man in the DC or MC universe, other than characters specifically written as everymen(which basically amounts to the only two characters the OP picked), you basically get cast and put on a diet of HGH and two-a-day high intensity training sessions for the entirety of your contract

That’s not even talking about action films outside Marvel/DC like Daniel Craig as Bond, Tom Cruise in MI or Top Gun, Michael B Jordan in Creed, Keanu Reeves in John Wick, Vin Diesel/The Rock/Statham in F&F, or really any Boomer action movie starring Gerald Butler. Hell, The Northman was released literally last year.

Hollywood is not short on films featuring men in classic archetypal hero roles. And OP even lists one of the recent ones….But when you want to see yourself as the victim, you will go looking for things to feel victimized about.