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I'm watching old Sherlock Holmes movies and it's so nice to see all the expressions of friendship between all the men.
I grew up on old movies, and a lot of international films and shows from SBS. It's a stark contrast seeing how men act towards each other in that media compared to now.
I feel like there's been a kind of, dumbing down of the portrayal of men in western media in general. They're either jesters, playing the hero, or being a piece of shit.
Maybe I'm biased because middle eastern culture is so different to western culture.
Nah you’re right. I can’t speak to middle eastern culture but there’s something really wrong with male relationships in western culture.
I agree and disagree...
I agree, modern media representation for healthy heterosexual male-male relationships are lacking. Which makes the toxic traits that are represented frequently more likely to be picked up by younger men/boys.
And I disagree...in the real world, there are plenty of healthy male relationships... part of the problem is that men tend to only display these aspects of themselves to their closest friends, for fear of toxic masculinity from others.
I dunno. The ammount of fear for being seen as “homo” is insane. The contempt some people feel for spending time with “the boys” and also the difficulty men experince talking about anything remotely serious with the same boys is all pretty terrible. But deadset agree not enough positive role models in media.