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.
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.