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What is masculinative

What does it mean to be masculan

Is it strength

Courage self alliance

Being a good leader

Staying cool and common under pressure

My hand does not shake suppressing all emotions

Accept your wrgies

Anger

Sexual aggression

Divorced or at least distance ced from emotional intimacy y im be totally honest

Yeah

I forget youre here having a high tolerance for alcohol

I cant give joke for pain

Making more money than your wife shoulders twice as why is your hips

It three times times

Why is your hips looking cool in a other jacket

You think i dssed

But i know i went through a other jacket phase back in high school

In fact over the years

I am yyself tried cultivating several traits on this list

In an effort to achieve society acceptance and self satisfaction

Im not trying to mock them all necessarily

Im just trying to understand how they fit into our modern notion of what means in mascular

Why these trades which ones are biologically in it

Which are simply perpetuated by society

Which is them are harmful

And which youbenenefical

Who can be credit for the perseverity

Who is the blame for the propagation

And if youre wondering

Why youtube channel l sustensibly about film is asking all these questions

I say its because a large part of our modern notion of mascucularity comes from cinema

Iwhile they i throw up a life for this channel ive made several video s about feminism

And i they all tend to dress

Dress some prominent antifeminist talking points

Ive been lying

If i said that any other more constructed with a specifically anti femined audience in mine

I usually present my beliefs

Right from and then kind of work my way backwards to try and show you how i gone there

But i wonder if that might leave some viewers with the impression

That i decided on my beliefs before i looked at the evidence

And thats simply not true so today id like to try something different id like to start by asking some foundtional question

A question that everybody would vested interessting in debate

Might be inckind to ask then work my way four words to try and reve ted inteninable conclusion

And because this is a stansibly a youtube general about movies

Id like to use cinema

Illusterate my points

One of the root issues as far as im concerned

Is what i asearlier

What even is masculinity

What does it mean to be masculan now im not here to jakee

Im not trying to exclude femininity or nonbinary identities from the debate

But since its masculinity that tends to preoccupy the minds of most anti feminists

I figured thats as good places as you to start

If indeed anti feminists are going to be my presume audience

Something else to keep in mind is that im not presenting myself as some sort of expert

Its not that i know so much about what it means to be masculine

So much as im simply 一年familiar with this struggle

I am well acquainted stresses

Pressures and anxieties that come with trying to figure out

Im suppposed to look

Feel Think

Bebehave as a man in todays society that existential tension that desperately need sorting in order to aceeat liliberum and happiness

The same existential tension that makes you wonder of joker

Might actually be a good film as if the best thing about the dark night wasnt that it didnt give two ships about the jokers origins

But for whatever its work today im more than happy to share what i learned as a feminist with an anti minminst audience

Lets take a look at one of my ultimate favorite films

Children of men

A leggories boiler alert

But come on if you havent seen this film

Already it is well worth pausing this video

Right now to go watch it

Children have mentlls the story of a world cut up in a global inftility crisis by the year

Twenty

Twenty

Twenty seven bobodys a baby and over eighteen years

Britain is a stensibly the only country in the world

But still has a function in government

But its descendded into a fascious police state

That routinely incarcerate inimmergrants and other undesirables

Crazy right

Theo is the main character

A former activists turn cynical low level bureaucrat

Whos contacted by an underground parammilitary resistance movement

That wants them to help escore a young immigrant moment

To the coast a young immigrant moment

Who somehow gotten pregnant ant instered

But were not kind of focus on theo even though he is the main character

No were going to talk about luke a supporting player in all the action at the start of the film

Luke is seconding command of the parammilitary group

That contacts theo

Hes soon like the leader of the group

When their former commander julian is murdered by a mob of angry thieves

Look possesses many angry theeves is my asdeated with traditional mascuinnity

He strong

Hes brave

Hes a man of action

He gets the job done

Hes organized level headed thoughtful

I croght the car and needs to be john sty a good leader people listen to him

Hes articulate empatheic and self sacrifying they when new in the baby and went enough

We will find a way to get you to the human project that promisy risking life and limb to save the women and children under his protection

I forgot what

What they look like theres so time

He also happens to be a fucking serreal killers

Soon after julian is murdered

We find out

Luke was the one who actually orchestrated their death

So that he could take over the power vacuum

That she left behind luke

Routinely executes people in cold blood

Every act of so called mercy

That hebestose is in fact and attempt to manipulate others in doing

What he wants so why are we looking at looowell

Because i think

Think he illustrates an important point about masculdity

That how masculine you are

Is inherently value

Neutral luke is as masculine as you like

But that has no bearing on whether or not hes a good person deal by comparison is only really good at two things

Empathzing and running

Oh

Way and yet hes the hero that look only wishes he could be well hold on

I hear you say loop was at war

He was forced to make difficult decisions for the sake of a cause a good

Cause a progressive cause

He was fighting for the greater good

But his drive to lead

Became a need to lead

And he let his emotions get the best of them

Guy Always

Always

Way too angry

You have a break protocol again

Oh

Have to kill you okay

Have a different distopiy and siffive movie character from the middots

Who also embobodies all the traditional notions of masculinity

Who wasnt it war and never lost this temper

And didnt need to lead

What might that sort character teachers about masculinity

I see see listing of of kk or name me

I have like this facility

I dont exist this is the oppperative

The primary antagonist said the two thousand and five sifii action films seredthe ooperative is tasked with hunting down rivertime

A seventeen year old mentally traumatizzed balarena assesssion and part time human bendy straw

Who may or may not be previled to some of the most classified government intel in the entire galaxy

Nobody actually knows what she knows if there was some classified information that she

She never spoke of it

But the mere possibility is enough to sign her death warrant secrets are not my concern keep them is despite the operatives s phnatical dedication to his mission

He is oddly dispassionate

I should tell you say that you dont waste your time

You cant make me angry please spend an hour with him

He isnt motivated by personal ambition or a desired to be on top

Hes not proud or blood thury he

We should have done

This as as men not with fire as far as hes concerned

He just wants to make the world better place

When re a better

A better world in fact its the operatives

Level headendss and complete lack of ego that ultimately saves our heroes

When he ordeers his troops to stand down after all the damages and done stand down and yet hes still unequitically evil len a children i do

If i have to he says so himself what i do is evil

I have no illusion about it

But it must be done

Please dont just understand me im not saying masculinity itself is evil

Remember all of looks good qualities

We talked about sam goes for the operative

His unique set a skills and personality traits might have actually done some good if they were ever dedicated to a nobel cause are less murdering one

But i suppose youll be wanted the more positive example of hpermasculinity

At this point you know something approve that ammat one of those feminists

Two things

That all forms of mass commmidity are are e you as i like column stramman journal problem

Two thousand and eight was one of my all time favorite years for film

And one of my all time favorite films of two thousand and eight was read belt it tells the story of mike terry a lost angeles to gitu instructor

Whose suffering weight are all my examples going to be played by tuwould tell ejphford is this

Is this a secret too we stand video

Well its not

Not that what do you want for me is my favorite living actor

And we needed to control

So mke teria is a loss angeles st jugitu instructor suffering from a cascade of compounding bad luck

Theres an accidental shooting in his studio

That almost get someone killed

He cant pay to replace the window

Because he told the insurance company

The wind did it in an effort to protect the woman

Firred the shot

The girl he turned her in the cops

Who ter said said it was attempted murder

His best friend get stipped for doing a job

That terry put him up for i said you up put the job with my people apparently stifed you guy cant see him to catch a break

But then terry saves the life of a fading action movie

Starting a barfight

And for at least a little wwhile thing seemed to be looking up

The actor is impressed with mixhoel ethos

And soon hes rubbing shoulders with the hollywood delebut hohoyywood

But then they go and gihim a watch

The terry has the bad luck of giving to his friend as payment for the job i got stipped on

And when his friend try has upon it somebody point the the watch

It give

Give

And he

He told the watch

It give you soon enough everything comes crashing down

The actor cuts out ties

And his manager steals terroriies training method as a publicity stunt for upupcoming price fight each fie has a two and three ots of choosing the white marbwhwhmarbl to pass

Should he pick a white marble

He will be given a pass

Should he pick a black marble

He will be given a handy

Ch this is especially upsetting to terrissince hes always refused to fight for money

Since he believes its a designerable practice

Should each pick we weaken the fighter

You could be no terry sues for copyright infringement

But in what what is one of my all time favourite instances

Planting ting payoff turns out

Theyve got dirt on terry and his lawyer

From something that happened in the very first sce of the film with bankrupcy looming possible criminal charges and no legal recourse

Terry reluluctantly decide to accept a ongstanding invitation to fight for surprize money

And a desperate tempt to try and finally get his life back on track calling

If youre looking for a vision of bannevelent hypermasculinity in film

You could certainly do worse than mike terry an architeple warrior poeet

Terry is just as skilled at fighting

As it is disinterested in perpetuating violence

Everything has a force embrace

It a deflected what i pose it for all this strength

Terery ever actually goes looking for a fight even when fighting probababsolve ve lot of his problems okay he does go looking for a fight once at the end of the film

When he reluctanantly signs up for the undercard prize fight

But as soon as you realized as a shammat all is he packs it in

Take it up with going on right before before finally deciding to do something that will unequitically involve some fighting

The lleenine is something of power fantasy

But i do love how wonderfully pretentious write a director david mays explanation is would you have broken up that fight

So now i think a high time we ask ourselves

What separates a hypermasculand hero like my terry from two hypermasculand villains like looke and the operative all three of them are strong and self assured for all powerful fighters

What terry in the operative of thoughtful soft spoken and fully capable of backing ing down from a fight if a philliits not absolutely necessary

So what makes two of them bad guys and one of them a good guy

What determines their moral alignment

I have wrecked my brain over this

And i can really only think of one thing youre ready

Terry doesnt want to control anyone

Even when hes fighting its less than attempt to control other peoples live so much as it is an attempt to prevent other people from controlling the lives of others in essence

But terry wants complete control of themself

And absolutely no control over anyone else does that sound like your typical anti feminist not to me

It doesnt whenever a mens rights activists some statistic about male combat fatalities

Higher rates of mental illness or harsher prison sentences

Its never unattempt to advocate from medical or judicial reform

Its only ever unattempt to shut women up

Now i know if youre thinking well im ng tao doesnt want to shut women up

They just want to go their own way

Men who want to be left alloan in ace

Yeah ah know know thats the stted goal

But i have to wonder why these men wanted to get away from women in the first place

When you hear them talk it sounds me like the less interested in preventing theyre oppression

And more than they harbor a biitter entitled resentment over their inability to control women in the first place

So mike terry is a vision of the nevellent hypermasculity

Good good for him

But at the end of the day ishe he more of an inspirational figure rather than an inaspirational one i mean can any of us ever really be as perfect as micterry

What if youre not a hypermascule and warrior poet with a past history

Who cant be vested in physical combat

What are you supposed to do then well after looking at three hypermasculine characters

I think its high time we finally talk about betas dirty pretty things is one of my favorite films that nobody ever heard of juu llgg four plays ed okawai an undocumented immigrant

Who eks at a living in london

Driving a caboring the day and working a hotel front desk at night one evening agaguest st forform and theres a blototoet et and one of the rooms

And when okakke goes up to one calget

I know right one of my favorite first actwsts in all of movie history

So okaai stumbles upon a black market organ smuggling ring organized by the statistic hotel tell manager won what easis lets get ever play a nonthethest

When one finds out oakwai was actually a surgeon back in nigeria

He immediately starts pressure ing aakwai to join the operation

At first he tries appealing to oakwais impathic nature is when aakoy kes kes cleerry still doesnt want to be involved one just starts back mamillion

Not so hard hard do for an unundocumented immiant stop pacting like youve got a choice

So oakway is an exactly mopping the floor with his enemies here when preferred method of resolve in conflict is just to avoid it

It same is terry

But unlike terry

Aakwawdoesnt nt conflict because of some passive streak

He avoiided

Because hes not much of a fighter

Unlike terry

Okwai is is raked within securities and self down in fact he sports

Many traits tes that in know lot lot anantifamminsts fine offputting even disgraceful

Hes not aggressive for dominering

Hes really rather meet and differential

He cant even close with the woman

Hes sharing a flat with forgot ssak

But are we really going to sit here and argue that hes a total failure of a man

Because hes not some black belt schocrurushbut are seen

Because you are people you do not see yet i want to drive your caps

We clean your rooms and suck your cox in my experience

The people most eager to rush the violence are usually

The ones with the least experience with that anyway people who have seen and suffered violence arent usually

The first people to advocate on its behalf oakwaway presents a vision of masculinic

Thats kind deferential rather than overpowering and aggressive unless we forget oakwaway does indeed finally gain the upphand of his boss

Plplaying into his own strength and exploiting his bosses weaknesses in such a way that sees him come out on top indeed most satisfying way imagiting a whole 神美good hey

Maybe you wllcall all ququy some soyboy beta

Maybe thats just what the bad anti feminists would say not you youre

One of a good antfeminist youre totally fine with men who dont perpetuate violence and aggression

Im not even being enphasscious surely theres some of you about that right even so theres still one character we need to take a look at before our examination of cinematic masculinity is complete

The last example is of course my personal favorite performance of uitl eggy force entire career no video about masculinfor or juutail edor four would be complete without it youve all expecting it ego dont you know you cant win kinky boots tells the story of charliprice a mile manddered north amptona man who inherits a struggling shoe factor in the wake of his fathers death

The factory is deep in the red long before charlie ever gets his hands on it

But just when hes about to close of shop

He mets loa a drag green performer and desperate need of some taylor made heels that can stand the weight of a man

Got clean off again well most things in life

It cannot stand the weight of a man after a lot of brouding from his employee learn charalley recruit slowlow to design a whole range of boots for the factory

And hopefully taen into a lucrative niche market for at least a little while things seem to be looking up

But then tensions within the town and between the two men threatened to destroy their new business venture im a north hampton

She should design the job

Yeah

You know as well youre re also men in address and theyre nasent friendship for my say tomorrow please turn up

We can like a pics

Only possipossible god i love this movie

Im much you way 没有没有没有的好的好的好有

The right amount

How much do you drink the fact

That its still not unblue ray

Even thirteen years after the debut with a format is nothing short of a crime against humanity in hindsight

This whole video could have been an examination of masculity through just the lens of kinky boots

After all it has more to say about the subject than any other film

We talked about it cant i just ask

Are you a man

真的真的的的的真的

I am love

Yes Oh

Thats fine just what i know how to lead the toileet seat

So what can we learn about masculinity from kinky books

Well first inforremost that so much of masculininity is near performance fashion literally

You know how high heels gathers start they were invented to keep men feet secure the riding sterus men started wearing them in portraits

Once they realized out with the middle cats look and soon after turn them into a symbol of status and wealth

Women eventually started wearing high heels

When extraininity started to become associated

When extravinity and impracticality ty whelld right todays

Social transgression is yesterdays fashion fat and vice versa

Other people might argue that men are naturally predisposed towarard in your or muted coths

But um not in animal kingdom

Helh not the nineteen sevendom man i unexposed weweaddresses tell me the functional difference between the skirt and a ill led the most grounding thing about this for me is that the people who write ten thousand word opbeds about how nail polishes just for girls

But the same people going around insisting that gender is this innate biological absolute

Oh

Really so where is the many petty gene

Exactly so all this begs the question

If so much of masculdity is performance

Which qualities are in trinsical mail at the end of kinky books loweless say save charleley shoovfactory by putting on a catwalk show to handle catwalk shows this

After charroley had called lolo to apologize for for susulting earlier

I dont know what a helalen man is

I know that if he involves being brave

You are more of a man

Than i will ever be an indiscriminment

If you were might come away with the impression

That bravery is the inherently mascumentrate in question

And that lola is masculbecause

Because he is brave

But i personly think this moment is really just a tender reconciliation between two friends thats one ok charcharly just acknowledging that is groirly er anger came from a place of fear in self hood facts and logic

I think the movie s real fisis on man hood comes earlier

When lale er repeatedly asks factorory worker down to define man hood

Why dont you write down what you think me more of a man

And iwrright down what i think would make you more of a man

Dont never write anything down

But he does challenge loga to enarmmous and competition

Which lova goes ahead and lets him win

We then find out what lower thinks dont could do it to be more of a man

Change gkind about someone

One of my personal favourite quotes comes from alice s rossy to avoid intellelectual sterility

It

It wise to periodically reexamine are most deeply held presupositions

The ability to change ones mind is a borlones super poind

Thats how can bean adululby optimizing your behavior in the face of new evidence

Thats It

Thats

Everything

If i could encourage anyone

Anywhere to aapt just one trade to become a better person

That would be it a proud inclination to change ones mind

But of course a willingness to change ones mind isnt an inherently mascuand trade

And thats the point

Nothing is what were you going to suggest level headed dss luke wasnt level headed a desire to be in control the operatitive considered himself completely disposable aggression

Terry wasnt aggressive strength

Oquay wasnt strong okay

How about just masculinity surely we cant not agree mmcuculity

Ity is an inherently mascultrait

Right but luluc was feminmine see what we call gender is basically just a collection of anegotal averages

None of them prescriptive meant might typically benchpress more than women might typically sport more teststero might typically have penis is not

Not always

Never always

You never always going to find at need

These traats in all men and absent in all women

The only reason

These traatts of rescue in one direction anyways because thats what has to happen to the data

When you sort your sample into a binary of which gender isnt so thats not even up for debate at this point

Even the most died in the world conservatives of my youth told me i act too much like a girl for their liking so even they agree that gender presents on some sort of spectrum

There will always be women

Who can outlift men

Who are fast better than man river smarter better leaders

Who look cooer and leather jackets

Theres always going to be people

Who dont identify as men or women

And thats fine

The averages say nothing about anyones value

The averages say nothing about your value

Take it for me

I grew up with all the traditional notions of masculatity and gender binaries

And they never may me feel like a better person

They only ever produced agganizing anxieties and devastating self downs a chronic fear that i wasnt measuring up to someone else

A standard of who

I was supposed to be in fact

It wasnt until i shed such notion that i was finally able to cultivate my own instrength as saw w it literally

I didnt actually get fit

Until i purchased a work

I guide designed by and presumably for this women and id be doing a disservice

If i didnt recommend the same to well of because its what trchanged my mind about so stotrying to presscribe the behaviors of others based on your personal notions of gender

Because if youre the gun of person

Who experiences apapaplactic rage

Had the thought of someone else expressing their gender identity in a way that you find in consolbably discordant with your way of life

Even though the the person has no power influence over you

Then may i submit they are not the ones with the psychosis you are 别要

And if anybody just wants to run into the comments and like call me a soy boy

And like law off

Or whatever first of all thank you for the engagement

And second of all come on you norm high