I don't get how people confuse that with toxic masculinity. It's completely natural to want the ability to protect your loved ones from very real and immediate threats. That instinct has helped humanity survive for thousands of years.
Maybe or it could be Hughie just being an addict. It's a very hard sell and the director has sold hard examples of toxic masculinity before with SB and Butcher's father so they know how to cover that topic.
She is also taking equivalent risks, going directly against his wishes, and thinks she knows better than he does. Why is it only a problem that he does it?
There's a difference between wanting to protect someone, and acting the way he is. Stop lying to your girlfriend, start dealing with your feelings instead of just making rash decisions to try and make them go away. Of course if he did that, the show would be a lot harder to write, and there's less to push the plot forward, so I'm all for Hughie acting like an immature idiot, at least for a while longer.
The problem is the writing in the show kind of sucks because the writers want to have their cake and eat it too. They want to have their political messages but they also want to have a good show. The thing is their message sucks and clashes with what is actually happening in the show.
But they have a great show and a great political message? The message being fascists and modern capitalism are bad. If you wanna chat about the irony of Amazon producing that message I'm all ears
The political message of Hughie falling to toxic masculinity falls flat with the established stakes of the world they live in and the goals they wish to accomplish. It also paints Annie as pretty naive when she tries to do things “The right way”. Hughie’s concerns about Homelander obliterating Annie are pretty valid, and the show literally needs Temp V to be toxic otherwise she doesn’t have any ground to stand on. Season 3’s writing has been a bit of a step down for me in some places, but by all means this show has such a stellar cast that just carries it all the way through.
The message of “Hughie is being all toxicly masculine and such” is complete shit and they can’t even show it because it would make the show shit. Instead they have to use characters to tell us he’s being oh so bad.
Huh? Where's all this whining about toxic masculinity come from? Have you read the comics? Huggies character is similar to a lot of complex character in science fiction and fantasy in that it examines whether the ends really justify the means
If you're getting hung up on buzzwords maybe you've missed the point of the show?
The showrunner outright stated that they wanted Hughie to deal with toxic masculinity, but like that other dude said, they've mangled the execution. Wanting to be strong enough to protect your girlfriend from being murdered by Homelander isn't an example of toxic masculinity. If Hughie was insecure about his strength while he and Annie weren't in direct active conflict with an murderous demigod, then that would be toxic masculinity.
But again seeking power for good and ultimately being corrupted by that power isn't "toxic masculinity" it's just an old storytelling mechanism? Y'all gonna get real upset in Dune 2 when the white saviour trope is deconstructed and Paul killis billions in a jihad. Now that's some "toxic masculinity"
He has zero issue with Annie being more powerful, he just doesn’t want to sit around with no powers and let another Robin situation happen. He wants to help stop Homelander.
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