>After decades of reinforcement, the 21st century male has been fooled into thinking the photo-fit of modern masculinity looks a little like 007. It doesn’t.
>In reality, the modern male is not a machismo-oozing two-dimensional playboy. But then nor is he the effete, blubbering metrosexual "new man" we hear so much about either. No, if the melting pot of modern male complexities and insecurities is visible in any character of contemporary fiction, it is in warped mind of Adam Sackler from the US comedy series Girls.
>Almost bi-polar in his frantic behaviour, Adam is never a man to sit on the fence. An intense individual with an addictive personality, he doesn’t like, he loves. From closely guarding his feelings one moment to gushing platitudes the next, or swapping years of sobriety for a downward spiral into alcoholism, you can tell Adam’s a man who lives for the moment, making lasting judgements on a whim. It comes as no surprise the show’s female characters struggle to build a lasting connection with him.
>“What’s the deal with that guy?” Hannah's friend Jessa asks of Adam in the first season. “Is he like a great thinker or just a total f---ing idiot?” The thing that makes Adam so personable, is that he is both. Encapsulating the blurred lines between good and evil, he is a doomed creative that jumps from one idea to the next without even getting halfway through.
>During one episode he writes a play that he’s sure will change the face of theatre, then walks out on the production before opening night, as "I'd rather do nothing for the rest of my life than have my name attached to something mediocre.” What comes off as arrogance is a genuine fear of failure, something that’s a thousand times more relatable than a British spy who’s been in his thirties for half a century and is apparently indestructible.
>Let's say you're a soulful, brooding male hero, living a sheltered, emotionless existence. If only someone could come along and open your heart to the great, wondrous adventure of life... Have no fear, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl is here to give new meaning to the male hero's life! She's stunningly attractive, high on life, full of wacky quirks and idiosyncrasies (generally including childlike playfulness and a tendency towards petty crime), often with a touch of wild hair dye. She's inexplicably obsessed with our stuffed-shirt hero, on whom she will focus her kuh-razy antics until he learns to live freely and love madly.
Holy shit, you're right. Just need to switch the sexes around, Lena Dunham's character is the sheltered hero and Adam is the manic pixie dream guy
Not sure how I feel about this
Benjamin Perez
Why'd you delete your reply man?
Juan Diaz
this what the author looks like
Caleb Ramirez
that's why he wrote the article, because all he can ever realistically be is the man he writes about and promotes. so of course he's going to say smooth as hell 007 dressing guys shouldn't exist. that's competition
Anthony Reyes
But Isn't he a more accurate representation of the typical modern day male than some handsome action hero like James Bond?
Eli Carter
This kind of makes me want to watch the show
Hunter Moore
>you can tell Adam’s a man who lives for the moment, making lasting judgements on a whim Wrong, modern males are afraid of decisions and commitment.
Jordan Price
>disney movie about to come out >"respectable" media outlets putting out actors agencies publicity pablum
Christian Cook
The best thing about Girls is the men, and the male actors. The women are products of nepotism, the men all auditioned and gained the roles through merit.
Easton Reyes
I am what the modern male should aspire to be. I put effort into being a real man, the way I carry myself, how eloquently i speak, how i groom, dressing classy, I always make sure to radiate masculinity wherever I go. I like to see myself as the renaissance of the 1950s mans man.
Luis Cook
>the archetypal modern male It's about (((their))) globalist agenda. They want to run a prison planet of border-less, race-less, culture-less, nation-less, identity-less subdued sheep. They make up less than 1% of the world's population, yet look at all they control from the world's finances to the media that brainwashes us.
In short, they use the entertainment and news media to encourage globalism and discourage nationalism and traditional western values. They distort and lie about the present and past in that effort.
Was this written by a woman? No way I'm opening this retarded shit.
Would like to see whoever wrote this thrown into a ghetto with a pack of feral niggers and see how much loving they're going to do. Whites are going to be a minority, after all.
Cooper Adams
It's doing a severe disservice to the archetypal modern male by comparing him to that atrociously ugly mug.
Henry Jackson
thats what i meant. im not sure if i wrote it out poorly or if you just have bad reading comprehension. but the answer is yes
Luis Smith
While I don't like numales I don't really feel like it's my place to cast stones since at least most of these guys can get laid while I'm in my 20's and incel..
Aaron Ross
The author is saying that he makes lasting judgments and decisions very rashly. For example when he finds out his ex girlfriend is pregnant and the next day decides to get back together with her and raise the kid with her and get married etc. but then after a few hours together with her he ditches her. . He is afraid of commitment, he doesnt think about the consequences of his actions and is very rash, emotional and short sighted
Gavin Kelly
Bit of both I guess. The author isnt saying that James Bond shouldn't exist, but those ultra suave, rich, handsome, invulnerable characters are not realistic and not relatable. It's a fantasy. Whereas Adam is realistic and relatable
Oliver Nguyen
Typos. But yes my point still stands.
Connor Allen
Yes, nu-males are the current archetypal male, but masculinity will make a comeback as the generation of kids thats currently growing up around these estrogenic pussies rebels by pivoting the other way.
Logan Reed
i was scrolling down real fast and i thought adam driver was jontron for a second
Ian Collins
Except thatAdam is not a numale at all
Joseph Anderson
Lead by example, then.
Charles Powell
Really says it all
Adrian Peterson
Testosterone in males is dropping by 1% each year and there is no sign of this stopping or reversing. The next generation of males will be pussies because their hormonal balance will make them that way.
Adam Myers
They get laid because they grovel for the approval of blue whales, not exactly an achievement
Andrew Sanchez
Literally me
Michael Turner
>Adam Driver is a nu-mal--
Joshua Hernandez
takes real effort to look so pathetic when you're that tall and neither lanky nor fat so yeah
Charles Brown
ok bud
Grayson Lopez
I still feel like being a virgin makes me automatically less masculine than someone who has had sex with a woman. I mean, having sex with a woman is like essential masculinecore.
Wyatt Diaz
How can you fix your hormonal balance? I think my hormones have been messed for ages which is why I look 5 years younger than I am and can't put on weight. Should I eat healthy and take vitamins?
Owen Brown
Packing muscle onto that big a frame isn't easy.
Thomas Baker
>can't put on weight eat more, just not some garbage
,also >(((vitamins)))
Austin Campbell
You should go to the gym or play sports.
Hunter Brown
>rapes Hannah in the 1st season yep, modern male.
Easton Garcia
adam driver is the giant blacksmith from dark souls
Nicholas Roberts
Unironically enjoyed Girls form the begining to the end and i miss it. Helped me to understand a lot how girls but mostly americans and millenials think/work. Adam was the best character followed by not-Shia. Marnie best girl
Adam King
that only affects WHITE males
it doesn't affect black guys in any way. You're fucking doomed white boy.
Joshua Carter
>Marnie best girl Garbage tier taste. She was a cunt.
Grayson Morris
You are right, it was Ray
Jace Moore
He has a better body than anyone on Sup Forums
Also is a Marine
Would fuck you guys up. Sup Forums should sympathsize with robots who ascended to chad tier
Aiden Wright
The funniest thing about this article is the implication that anyone has even SEEN Girls
I like Adam Driver though
Luis Harris
>People here actually watch Girls
Adam Russell
I've seen the entire series, and have rewatched Seasons 1-3 on occasion.
Xavier Cox
Yes, some people here actually care and watch tv shows and movies others than capshits and flavor of month...
William Bell
the absolute state of jewish cultural marxism
DISGUSTING.
Isaiah Martin
You're seriously going to act like you're superior for replacing capeshit with Lena fucking Dunham?
Carter Gutierrez
>girls >not flavor of the month
Angel King
This doesn't describe Girls at all
Justin Smith
True
Carson Ortiz
blacks have cortisol and estrogen levels way more fucked. They're literally fat as fuck, low vitamin d from lack of sun, diabetes, blood pressure problems
it's no wonder black conspiracy theories are literally "they're turning the nigga frogs gays" but times a thousand
Easton Johnson
>After decades of reinforcement, the 21st century male has been fooled into thinking the photo-fit of modern masculinity looks a little like 007. It doesn’t. >it actually looks like a 6'4 former marine
Ethan Wood
Adam is pretty masculine bro
Gabriel Butler
You're speaking about an ex-Marine, son. Watch your tone
Brody Hall
Oh no, 100 years ago we were at peak testosterone, now we're all little girly fucks with babydicks and wide hips.
Cooper Wright
I don't know anyone who ever thought the average guy looked or acted like James Bond.
Easton Martinez
...
Jose Butler
it's PR pablum for "listen people i know this guy doesnt look good ok"
it's literally publicity for the actor barely pretending to be thoughts about modern masuclinity. "He captures the man of our times" etc
Logan Gomez
is that a shop? Why do nigs have such womanly hips?
Elijah Moore
nice try white boy
David Wright
that white dude still looks more masculine than your average fat jemima lookin nigger
Kevin Cook
niggers: never stop doing crimes in the subconsicous hope they'll go to jail and get raped
Angel Barnes
Jokes on you, it's literally impossible for me to feel pride in anything that I have ever been a part of or have done or will do. Self esteem is for faggots who think they're worth something
Connor Flores
Too bad you're a pizzaface balding numale lmao
Oliver Hill
couldnt tell you, because im not the kind of faggot who would watch a second of lena dunham's content
Jackson Nelson
No such thing as a ex-muhrine. OOOORUUUHHHHHHHH muh flag muh freedoms muh fries
Colton Lee
bite my balls you closet fag welfare queen
Dominic Howard
Ones face can't be chosen or changed without, more times than not, coming out looking worse in the end. I believe the author is attempting to address what the modern man's physic / personality are more in tune with. Not defending the article as a whole, though.
Caleb Gutierrez
Shopped so bad he looks like he has pirate peg legs and Oprah level birthing hips.
Matthew Nguyen
from snl go watch it
Wyatt Sanchez
Harrison Ford is literally the epitome of a man. Any one who says anything different is either a women of a fag. I mean just look at the fucking dude.
Jackson Richardson
Both he and Clint Eastwood.
Adam Peterson
>Old faggy actors >epitome of a man
"DURR THEY BE IN MOVIES THEY AWESOME". No they are not. Kill yourself. And the characters they play are fiction, written by and for manchildren. The idea that such adolescent fantasies are the archetypal man is another adolescent fantasy
Logan Mitchell
I never fucking said "Indiana Jones is the epitome of man" I said fucking Harrison Ford. >Old faggy actors lol you must be a triggered nu-male
Nicholas Campbell
the archetypal Fantasy men are the archetypal man. I mean it has fucking been this way since Odysseus
Zachary Thompson
I'm triggered by faggots like you who think these pampered shitlicking fucktards are worthy of any sort of admiration. They get paid millions to say a few lines and move around and maybe shoot a fake gun.
>Odysseus >Fails to take a city honorably, resorts to treachery >Gets lost for ten god damn years because he's a stupid prick >Kills people because he's insecure about his wife's fidelity.
Real man's man. Oh wait he never existed, only faggots look up to him. Then again, Ancient Greece was known for it's bizarre sexuality
Tyler Ross
>who think these pampered shitlicking fucktards are worthy of any sort of admiration. its good to know we have literal retards on the board. I am praising his fucking looks not him personally. A man should look like Harrison Ford/Clint Eastwood.
Cameron Brooks
Why should they?
Levi Cook
>Oh wait he never existed, No shit? Of course the Epitome of man doesn't exist. It is a concept you strive for and try your best to become.
Matthew Torres
Because those men is literally dripping with testosterone.
Nathaniel Gray
Too bad plastics and mercury have killed all the sperm and testosterone in the western man.
Alexander Howard
Odysseus is not some amazing god. He's a man who does whatever it takes to win, because he knows his strength isn't absolute.
Nonetheless it's not like he's a pussy. His endurance is John McClane tier among Greek heroes. He endures all manner of bullshit that's beyond him because he has to live up to the ideal of a real man.
Easton Jackson
Haha, no. There's a reason most of the trannies showing up in shows these days are black.
Brandon Myers
>Kills people because he's insecure about his wife's fidelity. That were there to literally take her, his kingdom, and all his shit. The reason cuck works as an insult is because it concisely sums up a lot of people with your line of thinking.
Cameron Morales
it's just a slightly newer version of WHATEVAH HAPPENED TO GARY COOPA
and tony was a fucking mess emotionally
Brandon Gray
source: Sup Forums
Nolan Bennett
>all males look the same
Nolan Wright
literally me
Kevin Roberts
Sounds like the Superfluous Man. Nothing new about this trope. Just another byproduct of nihilism.
Dylan Foster
"My observations as a clinician have been confirmed by multiple studies. One of the more illuminating studies, the Massachusetts Male Aging Study (MMAS), gathered data on 1,500 randomly selected men in the Boston area in three distinct time periods over 17 years (1987-89, 1995-97, and 2002-04). It measured their total testosterone levels as well as their bioavailable testosterone levels (that is, the testosterone that was actually able to be utilized by the body) . What they found was that both total and bioavailable T levels were decreasing by 1.2% and 1.3% respectively – every year. That’s between 20.4% and 22.1% over the years of the study.
Another large study, known as The Finnish Study, suggests that the drop in T levels was significant in younger men. A man born in 1970 has 20% less testosterone than his father did at the same age. In other words, a man who’s 46 this year has 20% less testosterone than his father did when he (the father) was 46!" source: thebodywellusa.com/the-hard-truth-for-men-declining-testosterone-levels-worldwide/
eat shit fuckface
Nathan Reyes
No suprise nu males will gurgle each others cum without a second thought. Adam driver is just an ugly and arrogant nu male.
Bentley Richardson
My thoughts are there are too many people in the media who think of people as groups and not enough as individuals.
Anthony Brown
You should watch a few episodes of the show. You will find hatred for women you never knew you even had.
It is peak degeneracy the show. Disgusting on so many levels.
Blake Stewart
It's almost like the lack of hardships is making us softer, resulting in low T.
Easton Lopez
It's a little of everything. Plastic production, mercury levels, birth control pills, sedentary lifestyles, trendy diets, growth hormones in animals, addiction to pornography, etc.
Matthew Gonzalez
Oh yeah, soy in fucking everything and even the levels of hard water as well.
