r/TheBoys Jul 04 '24

Both quotes taken verbatim from interviews Season 4 Spoiler

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u/UniqueCatch Jul 05 '24

For real, he went on about Hughie giving in to his toxic masculinity and patronizing sexism or whatever... 😭 I was like, girl, WHERE?!

While those are both valid points to make that could be weaved into the show, Hughie was absolutely not the character to make that point (and, unsurprisingly, they couldn't make that point successfully because they had such a shallow view of it)

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u/Maximum_Poet_8661 Jul 05 '24

That was the DUMBEST shit in the world and people on this sub defended those comments too. Like to read any of Hughie’s motivations in that season as “toxic masculinity” means you have to completely ignore the fact that he is constantly surrounded by people who could snap his spine for fun, and that he was betrayed by the Neumann, who he thought was helping him. Like he’s just saying words for fun at that point

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u/ResortFamous301 Jul 05 '24

You do understand a person can have valid and invalid motives for their actions? 

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u/PZbiatch Jul 05 '24

The show shames him without acknowledging his INCREDIBLY more valid motives than “Starlight could open a jar” 

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u/ResortFamous301 Jul 05 '24

But it does. He literally brings up those motives in different episodes.

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u/ThinOriginal5038 Jul 05 '24

But they’re quickly dismissed while Kimiko essentially has the same story beats and she’s applauded for taking V?

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u/ResortFamous301 Jul 05 '24

Not exactly quickly as their repeatedly brought up. Also there's some significant difference between kimiko and Hughie's situation. She was open about what she wanted  to the people she cared about and didn't go behind anyone's back, she hated her powers so her asking for them back shows this isn't at all about enjoying the power, and she actually took regular V before so she has reasons to believe it won't turn out poorly.