Bret Devereaux

The Fight Club take here is nothing new which is presumably why he doesn't unpack it but this is a *wild* Breaking Bad reading. Basically asserts that the "Skyler is such a drag" people had the show completely correcthttps://twitter.com/jasonwblakely/status/1461526487887081475 …

It does speak to the frequent failure of the sort of cultural critique of film/tv that tries to show the flaws of a particular model of toxic masculinity but can't help in indulging the 'coolness' of it.

Of course that doesn't disqualify the originals as art, but it speaks to the difficulty of critiquing toxic gender roles 'from the inside' as it were: parts of society will simply read the critique as glorification.

Yeah I was bringing this up here and at this point I think it's unavoidable. One doesn't want to romanticize abhorrent stuff but at this point it's clear no amount of underlining the message will guarantee it gets throughhttps://twitter.com/PetreRaleigh/status/1462127531885277184?t=6BphJCWfGzwMkxbvS4PgSw&s=19 …

So the problem I have is we get these endless subversions of this model of masculinity but what they never come with is an alternative model of masculinity that is shown to be capable or effective or cool or to be imitated. I think that is the weakness of the subversion.