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Valerie Smith's avatar

third option: of a synthesis of the positive characteristics of both Fleck and the Joker is conspicuous by its absence in the film. Thus it is implied that people in general - and especially men - need to choose between a weakened self who can fit into society or an antisocial but strong and sexy version of ourselves who can't.

It seems to me that synthesis is what’s lacking in politics and why no one is very satisfied with either solution: one can choose to be the manly-man with a submissive woman on the right or an empowered woman with an obligatorily PC man on the left. None of it is sexy imo, it’s juvenile and I’m not into that

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Emer's avatar

“But people are lost in their doomscrolling, in their magic mirror which tells them they're the fairest of them all, or might become so with the right filters applied.” ❤️

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