#we cannot have a casual whiff of anything approaching effeminacy

I think the thing that makes current actors much worse and feel a lot faker and look a lot weirder (constantly buff and ripped and perfect) is that like. men currently perform masculinity a LOT more and a lot more intensely than actor men in the 70s 80s 90s did. u would not catch a modern actor DEAD in skin-tight jeans on screen because then he’s gay automatically and that is a character type not allowed in modern media. in the 70s 80s etc u would not catch an actor man dead on screen WITHOUT tight little pants and a flowy loose shirt on!! and the outfit didn’t matter bc the outfit and presentation do not make the man, the writing does that. the characterization put in place by the actor does that. but actors are not allowed to have input anymore and scripts are not allowed to be good and so men on screens are the most boring weird buff people in the world and it SUCKS

frogstiel

like it feels like in current media masculinity IS the performance instead of part OF the performance. which makes all other aspects that COULD be part of the performance flat and dull and fall to the side

#no say that actually.#like yeah u have actors like idk timothee chalamet who to my knowledge are allowed to be more.. waif-ish (?) and less buff/macho #but that’s a very specific character archetype and that’s more like. Boy characters than Man characters??#if u wanna be a Man on film u don’t get to be anything less than McMacho Supreme unless it’s some kind of Statement or like. joke????#we cannot have a casual whiff of anything approaching effeminacy #actors #celebrities #on society #on masculinity #tag essays #on gender