• Zoidberg@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Bingo! The movie completely passed by me since the title was not enticing. Eventually a friend bugged me so much I ended up watching it (years later). It’s a great movie.

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      8 months ago

      I have run into a number of people that had never seen it because they couldn’t stand the very title. And then once I sit them down and make them watch it their mind is blown like they’ve just seen Requiem for a Dream or Trainspotting.

      It’s not a toxic masculinity movie. It’s a movie about toxic masculinity.

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        8 months ago

        The name is one aspect of the turn off from it. The other aspect is exactly what the meme brings up. Particularly in places like school, where a lot of nuance and subtlety is missed, the discourse around it comes across as toxic masculine. I know before I saw it, I assumed it was pretty much what it says on the box, just because of stuff I had heard growing up.