An essay from the New York Times has recently noticed how culture seems to shift from condemning toxic masculinity to considering it as a dark and “perverse” sexual fantasy.
In TuesdayCompact Magazine -Editor Matthew Schmitz Detailed how toxic men have a growing sexual grasp in culture and the more recent Hollywood films delve into those dynamic rather than painting such characters as completely removable.
“While the official disapproval of the poisonous man continues to exist in these films, it exists together with a non -recognized and often perverse attraction for him. Everything, no matter how uncomfortable, to the constant attraction of toxic masculinity – or perhaps of masculinity as such , “Schmitz wrote.
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In recent years, the entertainment industry has convicted less in its images of toxic masculinity. (Ibrakovic/Getty)
The author discussed how, despite the #MeToo movement and the efforts of progressive activists to stigmatize problematic male behavior in the Trump era, there were “signs of uncertainty” about whether the culture was willing to condemn it downright.
“If the Second election of Mr. Trump And the rehabilitation of various “canceled” male figures are the only indication, many people cherish doubts about whether apparently toxic men from society could or should be banned, “he wrote.
Schmitz then pointed to recent Hollywood films that reflect the open “ambivalence” from culture to poisonous men.
“These films – including ‘Babygirl’ (2024)‘Fair Play’ (2023), ‘Cat Person’ (2023), ‘Deep Water’ (2022), ‘The Voyeurs’ (2021) and ‘Instinct’ (2019) – suggest that the sexual policy of today trending away from progressive Is of progressive Pieties, “he said, added,” while the official disapproval of the toxic man in these films continues, it exists together with a non -recognized and often perverse attraction for him. “
He compared this attraction with that of another forbidden attraction society who took over and explained almost a century ago: “When Noir emerged as a genre in the 1940s, it was aimed at the dangerous attraction of the femme fatale, a figure in Once seductive and threatening, impossible to ignore deadly to hug. “
Compact Mag -Editor Matthew Schmitz argued that the current attraction of culture on toxic men is like the fixation of culture with Femme Fatales in the 1940s. (Retroatelier/Getty)
Schmitz noted that this attraction for “ambitious, sexually independent women” came from “memorable changes in American society” that took place at the time, when women “entered the labor force in large numbers that were traditionally done by men and they perform competitively.”
“Americans who had conflicting feelings about this new type of woman saw their ambivalence expressing in Noir,” wrote the editor, adding that these deadly woman Signs “were sexually daring and economically fervent.” They “also took” men and money who were not theirs. “
Because these characters were considered ‘transgressive’ in their time, ‘that is also the toxic man today. He is “the cultural figure who most sharply generates ambivalence is the poisonous man,” said Schmitz.
However, he explained that these films do not release the poisonous male characters of their behavior, because “most of these films punish the characters”. The way they are depicted should “reveal a gap between what people want and what they actually want,” he said.
“By portraying a socially unauthorized type in an exaggerated and often compelling terms, they reveal the contradictions in public morality,” Schmitz wrote, adding: “They show that we are not completely ready to drive to poisonous men, Just like the United States in the 1940s, something attractive to women who have agreed traditional notions of femininity. “
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