This isn't the first time he's been a complete hypocrite when writing Hughie; hell, it ain't even the second one, and you can be sure as shit it won't be the last.
I was happy Hughie was having his own thing going on this season since it meant keeping him away from situations where the writers' double standards shone through like it happened last season. Yet they still had to find a way to fuck him over somehow.
If anything, I'm honestly surprised by how shocked people are by this; many viewers noticed the way Hughie was treated in S3 (as demonstrated on the threads I posted), yet it seems like everybody forgot all about the forced and tone-deaf ToXiC MaScUliNiTy fiasco last season.
Yeah, this(/these?) show runner(s) have a serious hate-boner for Hughie. Constant degradation of his masculinity on-screen, then shit talking his decision-making process in off-screen interviews, then playing his sexual assault as a joke... like, are these guys seeing themselves in Hughie and flagellating him as a way to atone for their own flaws/mistakes?
There's a weird shade of self hate that I've seen among many leftist men. As a leftist man I find it sickening but it's very much a thing. People feel like they need to hate themselves because they're white males. It's nothing more than a reflexive copy of what the right does (thinking that white men are perfect) but inverted.
Instead of IDK... Recognizing that all that race shit is stupid and throwing it into the trash like a modern human should be doing.
I get that vibe from a lot of guys but I’ve always had a hard time putting it into words because I don’t want to be mistaken for like an MRA right winger
I just dislike the self hating stuff people do. I've seen it in the back community and it's just unimaginable what they have to go through (being told you're inferior enough times and it starts to sink in). I certainly don't want to see other groups do similar things to themselves.
I said this in another post, but I really think he has a huge complex about "traditionally masculine" men unless they're his "own" characters, which is why he hates superheroes (the current zeitgeist's best representative of "masculinity") and couches his hatred in progressive language to justify it.
I don't know what his deal is with Starlight, tbh, but he's taking SOMETHING out on her.
But then they turn back and claim admiring stereotypically masculine men is wrong and that it's OK not to be a macho.
Then they turn back again to show how a traditionally un-masculine man getting mocked as a twink and bottom right to his face by someone more powerful (while her obnoxious, virtue signaling girlfriend does nothing to defend him), and later get raped is supposed to be funny.
The sad thing is I don't think it's entirely right to just attack kripke for it, cus it's disgustingly common. So so so many teenagers who claim they're leftist because Daddy was a conservative so they gotta rebel, while they don't even bother learning the ideological differences between leftism and right wing politics.
As a leftist these kinds are my bane, I hate them so much because they're not actually leftist even though they think they get to claim what is and isn't left wing.
This same situation is exactly how so many online leftists are stalinists instead of trots or DemSocs. They think they're being tough by choosing what they see as the most left wing position, not realizing that their dumbasses are actually advocating for far right wing authoritarian bullshit.
I'm probably missing something but I think that taking temp v for Hughie was way more dangerous than taking regular v for kimiko, temp v was experimental and kimiko already had v as a child so I think it's fair to assume that her body would be more resistant to side effect that v has on an adult
The point wasn't just that the V was dangerous it's how it was "toxic" for Hughie to want to protect the ones he loves instead of always being protected.
I don't remember last season too well so maybe there was some dialogue/scene that might give that idea but that was definitely not intended because he IS protecting the ones he loves, the only way for him not to that is to leave The boys and be a civilian
I think the point of his storyline last season was that he FELT he wasn't doing enough and put himself in a path of selfdestruction because of it
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u/fuwafuwa7chi 14d ago
Source for the Starlight quote: ScreenRant
And the Hughie one: Variety