Sentences with phrase «stories about masculinity»

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From that small exchange about Red Vines, over the next several weeks they built up an elaborate scaffolding of jokes via text, riffs that unfolded and Cat Person New Yorker story debate and analysis: gender, sexism, toxic masculinity and Tinder

It's a tough, violent, and gritty story about survival, masculinity, and trying to do what one can to make it in an unforgiving world.

But Somebody's Darling is a very modern story about toxic masculinity, betraying an anxiety about the fading of the traditional male archetype (for the frat pack, vulnerability is equated with weakness), combined with the vile backlash against new - wave feminism, which in the real world we witness in the abuse apologist and the normalizing of misogyny.

Known for films about masculinity and violence such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Departed, Scorsese's protagonists in the past have been disturbed and / or criminal men, and as a director he has become associated with tales of gangsters and stories of NYC's underbelly.

It doesn't help that Ms. Janney's character is the least developed in the movie; though her back story is briefly sketched in, she serves mainly as a plot device in what is ultimately a film about masculinity and its discontents.