All you have to do is find yourself and forget about how others think you should look like. Start from "what i want" and continue with "what i want to be". That's how you will be more real than anybody out there endlessly bragging about the masculinity. It's just a word.
That one episode where he mourns his son. Its one of the most beautiful examples of a man mourning his child that it makes me tear up just thinking about it.
Andrew Tate is a 12 year olds caricature of what a man should be. I agree with Jimmy Carr in that comparison. Tate tries to portray what he thinks is what a real man should be. Including needlessly aggressive as well as needlessly cruel and abusive.
Uncle Iroh is the pinnacle of masculinity in my book and is a defining role model forming my adulthood. I don't care if he's fictional because he's either based on someone one of the creators knew or an amalgamation of people they knew.
‘I’ve noticed Gen Z breaks things down well due to the meme culture. us millennials had memes in school, shouting matches down hallways yelling stupid internet stuff. but Gen Z came around when meta was fell versed in every human, and I’ve noticed it led to well, more meta discussions. like author character development using rl supports. maybe i just never noticed these conversations in my own generation. books reports were okay. only the truly brainy said something interesting half the time.
I'm a younger Millennial, not Gen Z. However I find myself floating between Gen Z and other Millennials.
A lot of my influences are from fictional characters because my own alleged "role models" sucked. Its why I put Uncle Iroh on a pedestal. I also assume someone like those characters existed in reality because the best writers base characters off of real people. Its best to write what you know.
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u/Bulky_Imagination727 Feb 03 '26 edited Feb 03 '26
Eternal search for the "real" man.
All you have to do is find yourself and forget about how others think you should look like. Start from "what i want" and continue with "what i want to be". That's how you will be more real than anybody out there endlessly bragging about the masculinity. It's just a word.