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There’s no such thing as an “alpha male.” It’s a false myth with no bases in biology or science. That fact, however, hasn’t stopped the pseudoscience behind a natural dominance hierarchy among men from spreading like a virus through our media culture. Listen to the Pop Culture Detective:
The Pop Culture Detective makes video essays exploring the intersections of politics, masculinity, and entertainment.
This episode features: Playing Fortnite as a pacifist?
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The Pop Culture Detective makes video essays exploring the intersections of politics, masculinity, and entertainment.
This episode features: Acting like a Care Bear on a battlefield in Fortnite
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The Pop Culture Detective makes video essays exploring the intersections of politics, masculinity, and entertainment.
This episode features: Searching for Humanity in Fortnite
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The Big Bang Theory delights in poking fun at its male characters for their geeky obsessions but there’s something even more pernicious going on just under the surface. Beyond the mocking of geekdom, the show is relentless in making fun of its male leads for not being ‘real men.” In their quest to prove their manhood the four geeks then end up being complicit in many of the most harmful aspects of hypermasculinity.
The Big Bang Theory provides a perfect lens through which to deconstruct a popular media trope I like to call the Adorkable Misogynist. Adorkable Misogynists are male characters whose geeky version of masculinity is framed as comically pathetic yet still endearing. Their status as nerdy “nice guys” then lets them off the hook for a wide range of creepy, entitled, and sexist behaviors.
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This episode features: Audio Episode 10 – Solarpunk and How We Escape Dystopia with @Andrewism
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Exploring the surprisingly radical ecological messages in Disney’s Strange World. The movie’s visuals are borrowed from old pulp adventure magazines but its theme has much more in common with Solarpunk narratives.
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Superheroes usually manage to roll back the various apocalypses but rarely use their powers to build a better world. The villains are the ones constantly dreaming up big audacious schemes to transform the universe. This is the Pop Culture Detective on the job identifying the patterns.
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