Heroes
Overthink
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The Brokenness of Heroes
The dominant notion of heroism in our culture today for me is the Mel Gibson version of heroism. But I do think that even the Mel Gibson heroes trade on a vulnerability as well, right? There's a sense in which the masculine strength that they possess comes out of weakness. And so maybe actually focusing on the vulnerability or the woundedness isn't in itself resisting the masculine narrative. It might actually be a key tool of it.
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