SNEAKO - January 25, 2023Layah Heilpern Explains the Feminism in Modern Films
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Summary
The once mighty list of male cinematic heroes has dwindled to just a handful of aging characters living on borrowed time before they're ultimately recasted, rebooted, or remade for modern sensibilities. The traditional heroic male lead that was pretty much the bedrock foundation of cinema for almost 100 years is apparently no longer a viable commodity in entertainment today.
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This is called Why Modern Movies Suck by The Critical Drinker.
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Well, if you happen to be a creative working in Hollywood today, then the answer is probably yes.
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Either because you genuinely believe it, or because you think it's what you're expected to say these days just to get hired.
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But whatever the reason, there's been a bit of a change in the past few years in how men are portrayed on screen.
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Hard as it may be to believe now, there was a time when we were practically spoiled for choice when it came to cool, awesome, aspirational male heroes on the big and the small screen.
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Whether they were scrappy underdogs who had to rise to the challenge, or brave adventurers risking life and limb for fortune and glory, or hard-bitten cops taking on the criminal-
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Underbelly of society, they were a whole generation of men who kicked ass, triumphed against the odds and saved the day, and usually looked pretty cool doing it.
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That time, however, has passed, and the once mighty list of male cinematic heroes has dwindled to just a handful of aging characters living on borrowed time before they're ultimately recast, rebooted, or remade for...
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The traditional heroic male lead that was pretty much the bedrock foundation of cinema for almost 100 years is apparently no longer a viable commodity in entertainment today.
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Bring back that six-pack. Oh, no, I'm just enjoying this.
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You really like this traditional man, toxic masculinity thing.
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So you're, for the chat watching and anybody, like, maybe converting from liberalism, you are pro-toxic masculinity?
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What do you think for the people that are simping for you in the chat?
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Because there's a couple of simps right now watching.
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I'm trying to, like, you know, steer the conversation away from that.
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But what would you tell them for all the hopeful simps?
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You have to just, like, take on challenge, become the best man that you can be, be stoic, be strong.
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Somebody said to me that women are really attracted to men that solve problems, and I was like, yeah.
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If a man could solve my problems, I'm like, let's go.
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They're too dainted, too toxic, too dangerous to put into the limelight.
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And so they've been replaced with more acceptable alternatives.
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Go turn on your TV and watch basically any commercial break that comes up in the next hour or so.
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Tell me, how many dumb, hapless, incompetent husbands, fathers, and boyfriends do you see constantly screwing up even the most simple household tasks?
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And needing someone more diverse to bail them out.
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Now, this is a trend that I've noticed creeping into films and TV for quite some time now, and I think the problem comes in a number of different flavours, or tropes if you will.
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So let's take some time to look at each one in turn.
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And this is gonna be a pretty big topic, so I'll probably have to make this video a two-parter to give each one the attention it deserves.
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And believe me, they're gonna get plenty of my attention.
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Anyway, strap in, dear viewer, as I take you through the tropes of modern male characters.
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Pick out any random selection of mainstream movies that are more than 10 or 15 years old and give them a watch.
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Now pay particular attention to the men in those movies.
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Watch how they act, how they communicate with each other, the pace and tone and tempo of their conversations.
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Samuel again says, 26 and I live in Miami, what's good?
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So I work, okay, so I don't want to have like, I don't want to procreate with a man that's vaccinated.
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Like, I worked really hard to remain unvaccinated, so I don't want to like, that would be a waste of my life.
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I mean, it's like, if he's vaccinated, it's like an indicator of greater behavior.
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Like, he's not going to be like, on it or like, stoic enough or like, entrepreneurial enough or like, based enough.
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Like, if he's vaccinated, there's like, there's going to be a greater issue.
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Like, like, let me tell you, this guy looked like, like, like, actual Chad.
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But I was like, let me just like, let me just like, let me hear him out.
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And he just came across this like, really, Cam?
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And then he was like, and then he called me brave.
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And like, so it wasn't the vaccine in the end that was the issue.
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It was an indicator of greater behavior that he was like, kind of camp.
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Um, my, like, on a walk, my brother saw him and I saw him and I was like, he's pretty
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And then Gideon was like, all right, I'll go chat to him.
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Wait, you got your brother getting numbers for you?
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So he was, I'm telling you, this man was handsome.
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And I saw him checking me out as well when we were walking past each other.
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And then Gideon was like, high value man, high value man.
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Well, because like we have, we want to leave the matrix, right?
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So that means like make a ton of money and also like get me married to like the best
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Oh, and also Samuel is very quiet ever since the vaccine question.
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I guess maybe he's trying to insinuate that you're not.
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The feminist on fresh and fit last night said that wouldn't matter that they could pay
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What else was, uh, tell me more about that day.
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I, I, I'm very interested in like the shit tests go that you go through.
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Cause like, you know, like my parents were someone Jewish.
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So it's a Jewish event and I don't like Jewish men.
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I don't like Jewish men cause I find them, they tend to be like skinny and stuff.
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I like men that look like they can like beat the shit out of someone just in case.
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He was vaccinated, but you know, I was like, whatever.
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It's like, you can, I can smell the vaccine on people.
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If like they behave soft camp, I'm like, you're definitely vaccinated.
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And I was like, anyway, anyway, we were walking to the car and I could see, he didn't
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know whether like he should open the door for me or let me go in the front or, or like
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I could have put him out as misery and just gone and opened the car door.
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And then my friend had to jump in and was like, Leah, get in the front.
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He was like, if he, if he, if he tells me to get in the front, then does that mean he's
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If I, if he then goes, actually, Leah, get in the back.
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Then he's like, oh, well, like now, like I'm disrespecting her.
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Like I could see him going through this whole motion.
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The correct thing would be like, Leah, get in the front.
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BTR says the feminist last night just won't be happy in 20 years.
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The feminist from last night, just an absolute headache.
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By the way, this is funny because I could be wrong, but this is a Scottish accent.
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And Scottish, by the way, in the UK is like the heart of like masculinity.
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It's a power and dominance as their scenes progress.
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The use of pauses and facial expressions and eye contact to clue the audience in on
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Do this and you'll probably begin to pick up on a few things, like the fact that men in
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older movies are generally able to convey a lot more by saying less.
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They're generally more reserved and project a kind of quiet confidence.
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They're less prone to big emotional outbursts or energetic displays of high-strung verbal diarrhea.
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They spend less time talking about themselves and how things make them feel.
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And more time grappling with whatever problem or issue is actually at hand.
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When they decide to show aggression, it's generally controlled and carefully measured
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and deployed at just the right moment for maximum impacts.
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They're less likely to admit to personal weaknesses, insecurity and emotional fragility
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or complain about physical discomfort and danger.
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In writing terms, this is what we refer to as stoicism.
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A stoic character is one that's generally reserved and emotionally distant, the kind of
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person who bears their troubles and discomforts without too much complaining.
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It's a character type most commonly associated with traditional ideas of masculine behaviour.
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Because it's funny that the new Batman movie with the Twilight dude, he was just like an
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I didn't see it either, but that's what everybody complained about.
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Like I grew up on Spider-Man, loved it, loved the story.
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So I watched it on the plane and then there's like the scene.
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I also don't know what camp is, but I kind of just figured it out.
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Mother's meeting is like, you know when like women get together and they have a gossip
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At school, the teachers would like tell us off if all the girls were like chatting outside
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before going into class and they'd be like, oh, stop having a mother's meeting.
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This is a creativity kid professor saying he's going to be.
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So like they were having a mother's meeting, which is basically like getting together, talking
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about their feelings, having a real girly gossip, basically.
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In the newest Spider-Man, there's like, they brought them all together and they're like,
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And the other Spider-Man's like, no, I saw the way you did that.
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It's just, it's just like, it's just like, like, toughen up.
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Like, as a woman, I need you to be tough so that I can rely and depend on you.
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That's how men generally act around each other.
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Now take a look at men in mainstream movies today, and pay attention to the same aspects
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I can pretty much guarantee you're going to notice a big difference between the two.
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The men in movies and TV shows now tend to come across as annoyingly talkative and expressive,
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reacting emotionally to what other people say and do, instead of coolly observant and
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And this is important, because here's a little secret for you, boys and girls.
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The ability to just shut the fuck up for a minute and let an uncomfortable silence stretch
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out before you is a pretty powerful weapon when it comes to tense conversations, because
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you're making it clear that you don't care much whether the other person expects a response.
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I shouldn't say this, but sometimes they'll want someone to say something, and I'm waiting
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for Gideon to speak, and he's just there, and it's silent.
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And I'm like, I can't believe he's not saying anything right now.
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And he'll sit there, really still, looking dead into the window.
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And in that silence, they're trying to qualify themselves.
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Yeah, and I'm there dying, because they don't expect me to speak, obviously, to fill that
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silence, they expect him to, because he always leaves the conversation.
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Gideon, he watches all this stuff, probably 48 laws of power.
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BTR says there's a corny way to show romance and a cool way to show romance.
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I don't know, because the thing is, I'm not a man, so I don't know.
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You know when Fresh and Fit did that thing where they asked the girls to pick up other
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It depends as well if you're an attractive man, right?
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Well, I feel like if you're a hot guy, you can just go in and be pretty chill and she'll
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be interested because you'll say if someone's tall, handsome.
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If he's 6'7", Giga Chad, like the guy on the date, then he just shows up.
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You're not supposed to say that because then the guys, all the short guys are going to
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be like, go black pill and they're going to say there's no point in approving.
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What would you say to the guys that are 5'3 watching this?
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You went on a date with vaccinated Giga Chad 6'7".
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Why are you so specific about your qualifications?
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I don't want a man that's like 20 years older than me.
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It needs to be the sweet spot exactly 10 years older?
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He's probably not gonna want to get married for another like 10 years.
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If he's 26, he probably doesn't want to get married until he's like 36.
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Does it matter what your husband does for a living?
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He's gotta be an entrepreneur so that when tyranny comes, he can save us.
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And some of them got vaccinated to save their jobs.
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You'll speak to them when you're goddamn good and ready.
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Male characters today, however, mirror whatever they see and hear instead of imposing their
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They seem uncomfortable with the idea of protracted silence and feel the need to constantly talk
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Any real action that they take has to be undercut by ironic, self-deprecating humour, which instead
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of being funny, just makes them come across as insecure and lacking the confidence of their
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Like the idea of being assertive and taking decisive action is so silly that it has to be made into
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Generally speaking, they're easily intimidated and outmatched by strong female personality.
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A blue-haired, they-them feminists in Star Wars.
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Like they always try so hard to pretend that like women can do what men can do.
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Like I can be, I'm more successful than most men my age.
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Your brother seems to do a lot of the heavy lifting behind the scenes.
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I can tell based on the podcast, the way he was setting everything up and organizing.
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Because I think when a woman has to do the hard work, like she ends up becoming masculine.
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I was wondering how you're able to do all this consecration and still be like,
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We only started working together in April last year.
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So I like got to, I got us here and then like, he just, he joined.
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Do you help him find, does he have a girlfriend?
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Do you help him like pick up, are you, you don't want to say that?
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And there was this one girl that was like really hot and she was with a man and we were
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So I went to the bathroom and she was in the bathroom.
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And then I was like, my brother thinks you're really hot.
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It's like, bro, I just don't want to have a conversation.
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Tarantino said it best that everything now is homogenized and overly preachy.
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That's my goal with this is to make enough money streaming and then start my own production
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I was actually having some talks today about doing this because we need wife beater, Sneeko.
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Yeah, but Sneeko doesn't want to get married for like 20 years.
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I need a nice housewife to go clean this shit up.
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No, you don't want to get married until you're like mid-30s.
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No, actually, this is not even trying to, chat's going to call me a sip for saying that,
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but I've been, you know what's not some red pill shit?
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The truth is realizing like feminism is brainwashing,
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but that doesn't mean you need to go fuck a bunch of hoes all the time.
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It's a big waste of your energy and it's not that fulfilling and a lot of it is just
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Like afterwards, you're like, bro, like you'll be with the girl and she's just here and she's
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Because you'll go with any girl that's like hot, right?
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People at like five in the morning are just like go.
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And it's just, and it's just, she's just there.
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And then it's, you know, and then you find a hair and you're like gross.
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I've had, like, I woke up the next day and I'm like, I'm like, what is that?
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And it's just a fucking CVS Lee, Lee, Lee laying in there.
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It gets, no, it gets, it gets extremely repetitive.
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Do the girls know that they're a one night stand or do they think it's like something
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Or like after, you know, the pair bonding thing, like once they sleep with you there,
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they start to like, and it's like, fuck off, you know?
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Um, some of them, some of them straight, like mine is straight forward.
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Um, but a lot of them will be like, they'll be like, what are we?
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Like genuinely, you really, where did you meet a girl that would do that in a club?
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You know, Miami, like, I don't know what that means.
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Like, you know, I could meet someone at the gym on a walk.
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Whereas people in the gym, uh, there was a guy that I met in the gym and he was vaccinated
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I was like, I was like, you're a really cool guy.
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But I was like, I'm going to be honest with you.
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He tried a bit and then he didn't realize how, how dead serious I was until he followed
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And you said, uh, Bitcoin, no, unvaccinated sperm is the next Bitcoin.
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And then he unfollowed me and gave them a spook.
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What do you think about people saying a lot of the, this leftist idea right now, and there's
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these only fans girls coming out of Twitter saying that you're not supposed to approach
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You're saying you shouldn't, but you've, it's happened to you.
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Because like, I think, I think all girl, all girls in general want to be approached.
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Especially, you know, when like she's sitting at a bar by herself or she's sitting at dinner
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Like, I genuinely think all women want to be approached, but only by a man that they're
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But then also, if you have an attention seeking call, like the girl on Twitter, who we saw,
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So like, you've got to be careful because you don't want that to happen with her, with
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a girl like that, because then she will like, me too you.
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It's funny that she's like complaining about guys, like, all guys do is sexualize me.
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Right when I saw that go viral, I'm like, oh, she's going to get exposed.
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And I clicked her Twitch link and her Twitch, she's playing a video game, just bawling
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About like, I was just trying to shed a light about women in the gym.
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No, I wear either like a skirt with shorts underneath or long trousers or shorts that
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Go says, what she meant was if you 6'5 and shredded, then approach in the gym.
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A lot of guys like they, they hate to hear that because, you know, the red pills is meant
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to teach them that you could build yourself up.
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I'm just, I'm just saying in these like, in these weird specific scenarios, you've got
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to be, you know, only certain people can get, get away with it.
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But it also depends like how the conversation goes, what happens.
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Has a, an ugly, funny guy ever been able to run down on you?
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Um, I shut men down really quickly, unfortunately.
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So I was, I was, this was like a few months ago.
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I was walking with my mom and this guy just outside Brooklyn city center came up to me
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And then he, and then he was like, can I take you out?
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I just didn't find him like, you know, handsome.
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And then my mom was like, to me, I was like, shit, should I go out with him?
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And I was like, no, if it was a real man, he would have said, come out with me anyway.
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And I was like, and I was like, yeah, you're right.
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If that's what my mom said, he should have said, yeah, come out with me anyway.
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So then I tweeted, by the way, I tweeted, if a beautiful woman says, she's says that she's
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not single, would you still, would you still approach?
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And then all the men on Twitter that I admire said, yes, I would still.
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There's no way if, if that happened, that scenario gross to not have a boyfriend, stuff
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I'm not getting rejected in front of you and your mom.
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I said to my brother, I was like, Gideon, if you saw a woman you thought was like really
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attractive and you approached her and she was like, I'm not single.
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Cause apparently all women are single until she has a ring.
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Apparently all women are single until she has a ring.
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And then you can like, you know, oh, and then a guy,
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I approached me, you know, we saw each other at dinner and guy was at dinner with his
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Which I thought was really impressive, but I didn't find him attractive.
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I need a man that looks like he can like beat the shit out of someone just in case.
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Seiko, when you make your production company, let us know how fiction writers like myself
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People remember for generations is flying Raptor.
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And I think the creativity gets a good place, but yeah, we are struggling to watch this video.
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Don't say sorry, but like there's still, um, wait, let me just give you one last example.
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I don't know if I mentioned this on the last one, um, but there's a guy that lives in my
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Who's an absolute lunatic and I almost filed a restraining order against him.
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So now every time I, I, I go home, like if I'm with like whoever I'm with, they won't
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let me get in like the, the elevator at the same time as him.
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And then like, if I'm with like a friend who's like strong, masculine, like he'll stand
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And when my brother's there, he doesn't look my way.
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So that's why I need like strong next, like strong man next to me.
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So that like this guy doesn't like, you know, try and yeah, do anything.
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The intimidated and outmatched by strong female personalities, usually folding like a house
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of cards the moment they're challenged on something and they're almost never able to
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Even if the facts in general situation actually support their position, they lack both the quick
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thinking and the belief in themselves needed to press their advantage and assert control
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In functional terms, what you see on screen these days aren't really men in the normal
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They're basically hyperactive, hyper emotional, hyper talkative children forced into men's
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They're a kind of shallow, trite projection of what insecure, effeminate, emotionally fragile
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Either because they dislike the idea of the masculine, stoic, male archetype, or they lack
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the breadth of life experience to be able to write characters like that in the first
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There seems to be this weird belief that stoic personalities are inherently dangerous and
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unhealthy, like men who don't constantly express their every thought and feeling are
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nothing but fountains of repressed rage and raw emotion.
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That taking decisive action and wanting to assert control over a tense situation is somehow
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And well, to put it bluntly, that's absolute bullshit.
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The reality is that most of the time, men just don't feel things as deeply as people
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They don't tend to get hung up on things in the same way that other people do.
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They don't constantly fret and worry over trivial problems.
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They don't like to be disrespected or treated as the weak link in the chain.
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And they generally don't complain about minor discomforts or things that nobody can actually
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fix because they find that kind of behaviour annoying and off-putting in other people.
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And yet, that seems to be what we're being force-fed in our fictional characters these
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Jesus, no wonder cinemas are having their worst years in fucking decades.
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Whatever the reasoning behind it, the result is a kind of frustrating, neutered, childlike
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Funny how Go Woke, Go Broke applies to every single industry.
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And they try so hard to not have that the case.
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You don't need to be over 6 feet to be strong, know how to fight.
00:32:33.360
I wasn't saying there was anything wrong with 5'8".
00:32:37.480
That doesn't really line up with what real, normal people experience day to day.
00:32:42.240
Personally, I find that I can't relate to more and more male characters in movies today
00:32:46.220
because they simply don't talk, act, or look like any of the men I've actually known
00:32:52.660
Somebody donated 20 and said, this guy's talking like a masculine soy boy, what the fuck?
00:33:02.160
And I remember when the guy who was saying he's 26 to live in Miami, he's definitely
00:33:12.280
It said, 26, country, Aussie, unvaxxed, six feet, and building passive income to break
00:33:21.060
You want somebody at the end of the finish line?
00:33:24.780
He just needs to be like, you know, a little bit closer.
00:33:28.260
Yeah, Dankley, you fucked it up by saying building passive income.
00:33:44.160
I want to, I was thinking about, well, I had Brian Dawson on yesterday and he was saying
00:33:56.720
I'm sorry if I sound super ignorant, but like, I imagine it's very, not as bad as
00:34:00.660
No, I know, but it's still really, isn't it quite like, it's got a, it's got a collective
00:34:08.540
It's very collectivism, the society, which I don't like personally.
00:34:12.920
You want a bunch of main characters walking around.
00:34:22.140
Oh, I was only there for like five days in April last year for a Bitcoin thing.
00:34:28.500
It kind of gave me a bit of a headache because like, it was so man-made, but I didn't get
00:34:33.360
It's like a big, someone, someone described it on Twitter as like a mirage in the desert.
00:34:37.520
Like you're walking through the sand and like, there's an imaginary place that spawned
00:34:40.860
and that's kind of, I mean, I haven't been there, but that's what it seems like.
00:34:48.720
But there's no ocean and it's extremely, it's also funny that it's kind of like, there's
00:34:53.440
a lot of hedonism there, especially in a country that's really Muslim.
00:34:59.180
And like, I was, so I was on stage and there was all these, um, like royalties or something
00:35:06.060
And you're not allowed, I crossed my legs and like the sole of my feet naturally would
00:35:17.240
They were like, everyone, they were, even the men, they were like, the soles of your
00:35:29.380
And they're definitely not something I'd want to aspire to.
00:35:37.580
Remember all those awesome, heroic male characters that you liked when you were growing up?
00:35:41.660
Well, forget about them because they were never actually heroes in the first place and
00:35:45.300
modern Hollywood is determined to prove it to you.
00:35:47.740
And truly, what more quintessential example could I possibly give to start things off
00:35:51.840
than Luke Skywalker, who went from one of the most iconic and beloved heroes in all of cinema
00:35:56.440
to a sad, broken, miserable and forlorn man, living alone on a windswept island and just
00:36:02.240
running out the clock until he could eventually die.
00:36:05.120
Truly, Rian Johnson understood exactly what he was doing with this one.
00:36:08.580
He performed the most epic character assassination of all time, determined to kill not just the
00:36:15.500
Or how about Rocky Balboa, the ultimate underdog and symbol of scrappy, determined optimism.
00:36:20.880
A man who fought his way to the top through sheer determination and willpower, taking down
00:36:24.900
men bigger and stronger than himself through sheer refusal to give up.
00:36:28.340
Then you get to something like Creed where he's portrayed as a sad, lonely old man who's
00:36:33.760
A man who isn't even willing to go through life-saving cancer treatment because he just
00:36:40.860
Or Jean-Luc Picard, the cultured, intelligent, clear-headed diplomat, capable leader and brave
00:36:46.640
explorer from Star Trek The Next Generation, once the epitome of the thinking man's hero,
00:36:51.660
now reduced to a confused, frail old man who needs to be put firmly in his place by someone
00:36:59.500
Yeah, that'll teach you to get ideas above your station, Jean-Luc.
00:37:06.500
Superman, surely one of the most long-standing examples of the strong, square-jawed, patriotic
00:37:12.560
Well, not in the mind of Zack Snyder, who transformed him into a sullen, brooding, conflicted outsider
00:37:18.160
who doesn't even know if he can or should help humanity in any way.
00:37:22.340
Well, you really nailed the character there, Zack.
00:37:25.420
Or perhaps James Bond, surely the ultimate man's man.
00:37:29.160
A tough, cold, ruthless man of action who can handle any threat and seduce any woman with
00:37:34.540
But oh no, we can't allow harmful stereotypes like that to persist in the current era of
00:37:39.540
We have to make him sad and pouty and hung up on a woman who died like four movies ago.
00:37:43.920
And when he tries to flirt with women now, it becomes a point of awkward comedy because
00:37:47.680
gosh darn it, why on earth would they be attracted to a man like him?
00:37:54.400
Just like all the others, he has to be carefully softened, broken down, his air of danger and
00:37:59.440
sensuality and confidence slowly stripped away to make him less threatening, less assertive,
00:38:04.660
less intelligent, and well, generally just less than what he was before.
00:38:09.220
And ultimately, it points to one general problem.
00:38:11.680
We're not being given positive, inspiring male heroes to look up to anymore, and the
00:38:15.960
ones that we used to enjoy are having their legacies slowly eroded and undermined in an
00:38:22.360
We've got nothing to look forward to in the present, and our past is being taken away
00:38:31.020
One of the things that really seems to have taken hold in modern entertainment is the
00:38:34.460
idea that the smartest person in the room can never possibly be a man.
00:38:38.240
Whether it's comically brain-dead morons like the Red Guardian from Black Widow, whose
00:38:42.200
one and only character trait is that he could punch things really hard.
00:38:45.720
Well, except when he has to actually fight someone important.
00:38:48.240
Or supposedly ruthless military leaders like General Hux getting suckered in and provoked
00:38:56.160
Or the seemingly endless numbers of dumb, corrupt, abusive men in Westworld just lining
00:39:03.340
I'm not kidding, pretty much every episode from season one onwards is just the same trope
00:39:09.980
Or how about Dr Henry Wu, the brilliant genetic engineer who made Jurassic Park possible?
00:39:15.180
Except it turns out that he wasn't actually all that brilliant after all, because all he
00:39:19.500
really did was piggyback off the research of Charlotte Lockwood, a far more talented
00:39:24.000
and intelligent scientist who nobody had ever heard of until she was retconned into the
00:39:33.720
They didn't earn or deserve anything that they actually have.
00:39:36.420
And most of the time, they need a smarter, stronger and better female character to get
00:39:41.460
This is what I really, really annoyed me about the debate yesterday with the feminist girls
00:39:45.980
is that they'll say that there's no biological difference between men and women.
00:39:50.400
The reason that women are not in a role of leadership is because of the programming.
00:39:58.020
And this is a perfect example of how it's been overcorrected too much.
00:40:04.980
Like this is the thing which I personally find so exhausting because it's like I'm from the
00:40:12.380
I can go, I can go forward and be a girl boss if I want.
00:40:17.840
But I'm at a point where it's like, I physically on the inside don't want to.
00:40:29.240
They leave all the empowerment because every single professor's woke and they think that
00:40:35.860
And they're constantly in this ego battle and then when they get to their early 30s,
00:40:48.580
And no matter how many debates, like it's never going to, you're not, you're not going
00:40:54.420
You're not going to get through to these girls.
00:40:56.700
Actually, one of the girls was infertile, which is like, I think, yeah, like a big reason
00:41:02.140
Sneika, please be careful going to Japan and be blood-pilled.
00:41:04.640
Takes a long time to be ready to leave the West.
00:41:13.260
So in your opinion, how do you differentiate the difference between toxic masculinity or
00:41:18.160
in actually being like the creepy guy beating his girl in your building?
00:41:22.420
So I think like the obvious thing, and I think it's very interesting is a man should be able
00:41:29.540
If a man can't control his emotions, then that makes him a dangerous man, which is completely
00:41:35.660
They tell us if a man is like strong and stoic and he doesn't show his emotions, then that's
00:41:43.740
A man that can't control his emotions and is very emotional is a dangerous man because
00:41:50.900
it means that if a woman rubs him the wrong way, triggers him, he's then going to go and
00:41:56.360
Those are the men that you should be more afraid of, the men who can't control their emotions
00:42:03.760
The male feminists, they can't control their emotions.
00:42:08.060
They might hit me if they don't like what I have to say because they can't control their
00:42:13.580
A masculine man who can control his emotions is the safest kind of man to be around.
00:42:19.320
Justin Waller said it, I think the best way he said that you need to be the mountain that
00:42:27.120
I've been like hit in public by some of my girlfriends.
00:42:33.420
You shouldn't stand for that either because you don't want to be with a woman who like doesn't
00:42:37.000
know how to have public decency, like how to behave like a decent person.
00:42:43.460
Especially like I was in a public event, a bunch of YouTubers, a bunch of it.
00:42:46.980
But still, I've never, I've never, I've never hit a man in private.
00:42:49.840
Like I've never, I'm like, I would never, I would never do that.
00:42:58.060
You wouldn't want to be with a woman that's like physically aggressive like that.
00:43:00.960
You've never done some, some immature shit like that.
00:43:02.880
I think part of the reason, part of what I learned a lot from this type of content of
00:43:08.500
Like I've made a lot of excuses for my girlfriends and stuff like that.
00:43:11.440
I have been in situations where here's a, here's a, I'll paint out the scenario.
00:43:15.580
I was like 21, 22 and I'm at this event and she made the excuse.
00:43:21.960
But I was meeting my friend's girlfriend and it was at a loud club.
00:43:25.320
So I had to lean in to like hear her and her like, it's just like talking to my ear.
00:43:28.940
And then she starts like, she starts like, why are you going to talk to that girl?
00:43:38.380
So obviously like fight or flight and say, like, I want to slap the fuck out.
00:43:41.340
Like, I genuinely want to hurt her, but I know I'm going to jail.
00:43:44.500
And now she's like, she's being hysterical and she's kind of my responsibility.
00:43:47.560
Like, and so then I ignore her and I'm like, okay, you're doing too much.
00:43:54.640
It's like my friend's birthday or something like that.
00:43:55.860
I don't remember what the event was, but it's like a celebration.
00:43:59.660
She wants attention because she feels like she's not getting anything.
00:44:05.660
She starts, there's a, there's like some random dude.
00:44:08.420
She starts like overly flirting with him and talking to him, like in the middle of this
00:44:13.320
And I'm like, what the f- and I'm just like, what she wants me to do right now is get in
00:44:17.220
She wants me to like, that's my girl, like push her off.
00:44:23.660
And then she, I keep seeing her like flirting with this guy, like touching and stuff like that,
00:44:26.880
trying to get back at me for whispering in the ear or whatever.
00:44:28.980
And then she's like looking at me the whole time, like, does he see me doing this?
00:44:33.700
And that, that was like, I think the biggest test where I realized like, you just have
00:44:40.320
And every, if you get emotional like her, then we're going to end up in jail.
00:44:43.600
Like, you want a woman that's like emotionally intelligent.
00:44:49.240
Like, if that upsets you, then just like feel, feel, feel upset and deal with it later.
00:44:56.840
Like that, I didn't like that, that disrespected me.
00:45:02.660
Do you think it was, so I, after that happened, I broke up with her, but then I started making
00:45:14.480
No, I think, I think like that you don't want to be too overly, um, you don't, you don't
00:45:21.980
want to take the red pill thing to, to like such a great extent where like you end up
00:45:25.960
losing someone who you really love and really care about.
00:45:30.320
But so when do you prioritize yourself and when do you prioritize love?
00:45:33.820
Like that's, that's the part where I disagree with my own refreshment and refreshment fit
00:45:37.480
is like academics talks about that because it's like they, the red pill ideology completely
00:45:43.000
takes, um, a way that you could like have feelings for somebody and they should always
00:45:47.940
Obviously the right decision is not being with this girl.
00:45:50.280
You just need to be, you know, every single situation is unique and you just need to
00:45:55.320
be intellectually honest enough and emotionally, um, aware enough to be able to just say, is
00:46:06.340
Chad, do you think it type of, type of one, if you think that's simping type of two, if
00:46:10.120
you think that I was, well, if she's a good girl, then, you know, maybe she made a mistake
00:46:15.280
or whatever, but that's a, that's a, and then like, so, so the night continues, we go to
00:46:28.300
Like, so I, when I grew up, like I went, a lot of girls that I was friends with, they
00:46:33.020
would like cry their eyes out when they were drunk.
00:46:35.540
Like everything would come out and I, I don't, I don't get it.
00:46:46.020
I think birth control really, really amplifies it.
00:46:51.720
To understand everything about toxic or just masculinity, everything you need to watch is
00:46:54.600
actually Tate's solo interviews on Fresh and Fit.
00:47:02.040
I'm like, I'm not going to tolerate this, but then I got back and basically you're saying
00:47:13.840
I heard Tristan say, and this was actually really interesting.
00:47:17.380
If you and a girl break up, say she breaks up with you or whatever, a couple months pass
00:47:23.000
Like, how do you know whether it's, if it's simply to get back or not?
00:47:26.140
And Tristan said, if she slept with somebody else in, in that breakup time, then it's a
00:47:35.080
Well, how do you know if she's telling the truth or not?
00:47:40.660
You should know, you should know, you should be with somebody who you know when she's lying
00:47:47.460
Like for me personally, like I, I, I'm not someone that would lie in like in a relationship.
00:47:52.640
It's like, I, I, we need to be like honest and on the same page.
00:47:57.060
But after the breakup, like it's something you're not, you're not going to be a hundred
00:48:01.240
Women are not honest about with their horror nature.
00:48:05.140
I wouldn't want a guy to be with me based on a lie.
00:48:07.360
Like if I jet, like, yeah, I would, I don't know.
00:48:15.660
You need to go undercover to get that information.
00:48:21.040
You have to be like, you have to get it out of her.
00:48:32.420
Just tell me like, just like, what's the craziest thing?
00:48:36.720
And then you figure out, you're like, oh, shit.
00:48:44.040
But then it really fucks up the, see, this is the problem.
00:48:46.860
Because if you hear what you, if you hear the truth, the image of a girl in a relationship,
00:48:56.240
Like, she needs to be completely pure in your mind in order for the relationship to work.
00:49:00.480
But then like, if she's not being, if she's genuinely not being with anyone in between in that breakup,
00:49:11.000
Not if she's getting drunk, causing you problems, hitting you in public.
00:49:21.180
Who knows who's, who's being raised, who's being raised well.
00:49:35.400
And if he's ever going to need us in this world's a time, follow Nick J. Fuentes America first.
00:49:43.880
As another little example here, take Kevin from Ghostbusters 2016.
00:49:48.100
Now, his character is a counterpart to Janine in the original movie.
00:49:51.320
The difference, though, is that Janine was always portrayed as smart, efficient and good
00:49:56.280
The comedy in her case mostly stemmed from her exasperation at the others, either because
00:50:00.340
she hadn't been paid or because she was wildly overworked.
00:50:03.780
Yeah, she was sassy and abrasive with people, but one thing she wasn't was dumb.
00:50:10.360
He's ridiculously, obscenely stupid to the point where you could probably make a genuine
00:50:14.460
argument that his character had moderate to severe learning difficulties.
00:50:18.420
I feel like you're mocking the afflicted here, Paul.
00:50:20.680
The intended humour here was to contrast his physical attractiveness with his complete
00:50:24.860
lack of brains and common sense, in effect making him a male bimbo, surely one of the
00:50:31.960
But again, it's apparently fine to portray men this way because as we all know, men are
00:50:37.640
They certainly don't have anything to teach other characters, even if they're far older
00:50:42.780
Taking the Luke Skywalker example from earlier, consider how not only does he have no wisdom
00:50:47.520
or lessons of value to impart to Rey despite his decades of experience with the Force, the
00:50:52.900
dangers of the dark side and the possibility of redemption, but he actually learns things
00:50:58.840
Because one of the other annoying tropes of modern cinema is that you can't have male
00:51:04.700
And I think this problem was best articulated by Kevin Feige when he was asked why Doctor
00:51:09.140
Strange never made an appearance in the TV show WandaVision, when it absolutely would
00:51:13.400
have made sense for the MCU's best magic user to take part in a show that was specifically
00:51:19.540
And that right there is the real reason why they didn't want him in the show, because
00:51:36.220
they couldn't stand the idea of a male character teaching a woman anything of value because
00:51:40.600
it would violate the rules of modern writing which have apparently decided that men are
00:51:44.460
dumb, they don't know anything of value and they have nothing to teach anyone.
00:51:48.120
And trust me, once you realise that's the thinking behind so much of modern movie making,
00:51:53.060
well, you're never going to be able to unsee it.
00:51:56.320
Now the thing is, I'm not saying for one second that every male character now has to
00:52:00.360
be some domineering, super confident alpha male who eats raw meat and destroys everyone
00:52:07.120
That kind of crushing conformity would be just as tedious and artistically limiting as the
00:52:11.480
strong female character trope that Emily Blunt recently spoke out about.
00:52:15.620
And don't worry, I'm going to address that one in due course, believe that.
00:52:23.180
But what I am saying is that it would be nice to see-
00:52:29.200
I don't know, I liked her in that Tom Cruise movie, I used to tomorrow.
00:52:36.560
Instead of Hollywood trying to push the unhealthy message that masculinity in all its forms is
00:52:40.720
toxic, broken and needs to change, how about showing us a range of positive male characters?
00:52:46.300
How about acknowledging that men actually have something to offer the world?
00:52:49.540
That the drive, the focus, the protectiveness, the assertiveness and the competitiveness that
00:52:54.440
comes so naturally to them can be a force for good instead of some destructive impulse
00:53:01.280
Trust me, it won't kill you to acknowledge that men, just like women, can be pretty damn
00:53:06.800
And who knows, your audience might just thank you for it too.
00:53:12.180
I'm going to come back and address the remaining tropes in my next video, so stay tuned for that.
00:53:23.860
In 11 days for- shout out to the critical drinker.
00:53:28.200
Thank you for- yeah, I did a good job picking that.