I grew up watching the Back to the Future series and thought it was weird that a character trait of Marty McFly that he had to overcome in a major arc was “doing things because people threaten to call him chicken”. Even in a fairly broad (tho brilliant) series that stood out as cartoonish

And then when whatever neocons or wevs were trying to do it w/r/t Iraq II at least the good people seemed to agree it was ridiculous

So it’s been pretty weird seeing people try to pull it in modern culture wars, at least said conflicts touch on elements of masculinity that challenging it makes sense for

But being in my position and keeping an open inbox I see all the dipshit stuff that’s too good for the prolefeed but doesn’t make the cutoff for open arena Discourse and that’s kinda revealing