breaking bad, fight club, rick and morty, clockwork orange, and the catcher in the rye are all arguably good things – but if a man says they are his FAVORITE book/movie/tv show? RUN.
Can someone explain this to me?
They’re all works that are examinations of compelling but deeply flawed (usually narcissistic and violent) men. People rightly like all these works because they are good, but the implication of the original post is that if a guy says they are his favorite work, he is probably misunderstanding the point of the work and instead idolizing the male protagonist and is unable to recognize their flaws.
Basically, ask why they like it. If they like it because they think it’s well-written and made, you’re probably good. But if they want to be like Walter White, or Tyler Durden, or Rick Sanchez, or Alex DeLarge, or Holden Caulfield: yeah, RUN.
Thank you, thank you very much.
Keeping your eyes open for warning signs is one thing, but it’s going too far when people go “I think this is an excellent piece of work, and if a guy agrees with me it’s a warning sign, but of course that doesn’t apply to me.”
Yeah.
I think most of the people I know who are of the right-wing misogynist ‘I ordered Mein Kampf because I’m super edgy, feminists are ugly c*nts, I would burn the Communist Manifesto because communists are literal evil, Donald Trump is great, gender neutral bathrooms are segregation’ (all quotes from one lovely guy in particular I worked on a project with at uni – and yeah, I still don’t understand the logic of the last one) type like those shows and books and identify with those characters. But just because group A likes topic B doesn’t mean that everyone who likes topic B is in group A.
It’s put me off Rick and Morty for life, even though multiple friends have said I’d probably like the humour there.
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