Broey Deschanel
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Male Weepies: A Misunderstood Genre (early access)
🕑 Added 2024-04-28 16:12:53 +0000 UTCMale weepies are hyper-masculine, but is that a bad thing?
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Comments
Broey Deschanel
yes!
Timothy S Carter
Do men cry during gladiator?
Zoey
This was an excellent video. Watching it made me think of the way the original Lord of the Rings movies deal with similar themes of brotherhood, purpose, men struggling against all odds, achieving something bigger than itself. I'm old enough when people would call these elements of the movie "gay" as a way to dismiss their emotionality but I've seen those movies really hit men hard in the feels in the same way Field of Dreams and Rocky do.
