• CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Which is ironic, because it predicts toxic masculinity 20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon. Andrew Tate is basically Tyler Durden/the narrator in real life.

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        8 days ago

        it predicts toxic masculinity 20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon

        20 years before it became a widespread phenomenon

        err… toxic masculinity has been mainstream since the beginning of recorded history.

        Males in Athens who in adult life willingly submitted to anal penetration were derided as kinaidoi, a term of abuse which had the connotation of effeminacy.

        -Professor Paul Cartledge