#like theres no good machismo. theres crying your eyes out and being a househusband (the ultimate jesse. to me) | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

july-19th-club · 1 year ago

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bcs and brba are shows obsessed with the idea of karma and comeuppance and the men most obsessed with Manhood in those shows always get the most criticism from the narrative BUT there is also such an extreme ratio of 'white men' to 'any other characters of relevance' that it rings a little hollow and the very last thing that happens in the entire canon is a man who had stringently resisted machismo finally going off to 'the last frontier' to, presumably, be a man alone

#the thing being of course. up there you cant be a Man Alone. community is more important bc isolation will kill u #jesse (a guy who is so much a people person that he invites walter white to go-kart with him rather than be alone while depressed)#will be summarily adopted by like thirty middle-aged women with cabins and jobs at denali. within weeks #this is good for him #bad for the idea (unconcious on the writers' parts i think) that there's Good Machismo and Bad Machismo #like theres no good machismo. theres crying your eyes out and being a househusband (the ultimate jesse. to me)#breakingbad #bcs #breaking bad #q

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