
Ted Lasso
The Review
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Is Niceness a Counter to Toxic Masculinity?
The first domino needs a fall. Try inside that man's heart. I found it really interesting, because so much of season on is about proposing niceness is a counter to toxic masculinity. And then in season too, it becomes clear that niceness is actually a different kind of expression of toxic masculinity. For ted lasso, it is his defence mechanism that he uses to deflect things as much as anything else. This made me think a lot about the american sort of happiness industrial complex. There's this ongoing debate about can we be in charge of our own happiness? Do we look outside of ourselves? How do we find happiness? Is happiness something that can be bought? Is it
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