Current Events > How do you feel about male characters in fiction, displaying emotion?

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaG5SAw1n0c

it was for the meme, mods, don't ban me pls

What do you feel about female characters in fiction displaying emotion? Why not asking that too?

Because society never mocks them for showing emotion

They don't mock men either

Ya, that definitely isn't true.

The attitude of seeing men being emotional is improving a lil, but definitely is not something widely accepted.

For most men its fine but this dude is the king of Azeroth he needs to hold it together.

Its a good scene, and Anduin compared to other main NPCs is younger and had being the leader of Allaince forced on him after his father was fel blasted.

considering what shadowlands did to him (making him a proto lich king), and what he did under it control, Im glad they are attacking it. Question is can they stick the landing.

My hope is that by the end of the World Soul saga, he finds his way back to the Light and is worthy of leading the army of Light against the Void Lord's like is supposed to be his destiny someday as depicted in an old comic that had Old Man Anduin preparing for battle decades from now

I want there to be a moment in the World Soul Saga where Anduin forgives himself and summons the Ligjt once more in a victorius moment

But at the same time, part of me wishes he never fell. Before Shadowlands, I never believed Anduin could ever fall or be corrupted. I always saw him as basically being what Arthas could have been, had he not gone bad. Anduin was supposed to be the hero that Arthas failed to be

Shadowlands made me sad to see him fail. I hope after he gets back to the Light he never falls again

What is people's problem?

He abandoned his people for five years so he could wallow in self pity and cry about getting mind controlled. He's the king of Stormwind but he'd rather cry about his trauma than lead his people.

Part of it is because the Shadowlands story just sucked bad, and people want to forget it ever happened, but Anduin's moping is a constant reminder.

The other part of it is that five years is a long time to cry about something you didn't even do willingly.

So people want the character to be written differently. They don't like him.

Rather than saying that depicting emotion is bad.

Yeah, not sure why TC worded it the way they did, but it's not an issue of men showing emotion. It's an issue of this particular character being exceptionally mopey lol

The scene itself is very well executed, but the source of his trauma is kind of the elephant in the room.

Also the complete mystery of what the fuck he actually did that was so awful in the first place.

They don't mock men either

Also the complete mystery of what the fuck he actually did that was so awful in the first place.

Yeah, like... the writers really want us to think that being mind controlled into stealing infinity stones should be a good reason to be a five year recluse with major PTSD.

The other thing is... we've already had two "Anduin soul searching" arcs. He ran off on his own in Pandaria to seek peace or whatever, then in Legion he had a whole "somber wanderer" phase after his father got disenchanted.

Hasn't he found his soul by now? I mean come on, dude, he's wandered as much as Chen Stormstout at this point.

My hope is that by the end of the World Soul saga, he finds his way back to the Light and is worthy of leading the army of Light against the Void Lord's like is supposed to be his destiny someday as depicted in an old comic that had Old Man Anduin preparing for battle decades from now

I want there to be a moment in the World Soul Saga where Anduin forgives himself and summons the Ligjt once more in a victorius moment

But at the same time, part of me wishes he never fell. Before Shadowlands, I never believed Anduin could ever fall or be corrupted. I always saw him as basically being what Arthas could have been, had he not gone bad. Anduin was supposed to be the hero that Arthas failed to be

Shadowlands made me sad to see him fail. I hope after he gets back to the Light he never falls again

he's feeling guilt over enjoying some of the things he did while mind controlled

Ya, that definitely isn't true. At least here in the states.

The attitude of seeing men being emotional is improving a lil, but definitely is not something widely accepted for mental health. It's often seen as "less manly" and I'd willing go to go even farther to say it contributes to some of these mass shootings and the high correlation of male mass shooters in the states. Suicide rates are also higher in men for a very clear reason.

Woman are more likely to talk about how they feel since there's less of a stigma when they do it.

unless you live in like the 1940s, it's very okay for men to display emotion, there's several badass male characters that display emotion and people like those characters just look at john wick he display a lot of emotion in the movies and he's a badass character

I'm inclined to trust what the dudes most afflicted by the issue are saying. It's not like that where I live, but I live in a deep blue area of NJ. They could live in Texas for all I know.

it's been very okay for men to show emotion for a long time not sure why now suddenly it isn't again,people need to stop listening to the "alpha males" on youtube

unless you live in like the 1940s, it's very okay for men to display emotion, there's several badass male characters that display emotion and people like those characters just look at john wick he display a lot of emotion in the movies and he's a badass character

Characters in movies doesn't change in the real world men being emotional is not celebrated and welcomed as much as it is for woman. Even in movies those men aren't celebrated unless they look a certain way.

It is just a straight up lie that men being emotional is just as much as accepted in today's society as woman being emotional. Suicide rates in particular have much to do with men's mental health and the stigma around men being comfortable enough to share their feelings.

That isn't to argue men shouldn't share their emotions. My post is saying society most definitely doesn't welcome it as much, amd is slowly improving on that problem. John Wick in some fictional series doesn't reflect the general reality.

i talked about movies because this topic is about male characters in fiction and even in reality it's okay for men to show emotion and even if people don't accept it show it anyway, push emotion into them until they have no choice but accept it, society doesn't accept anything it simply sees it so much that it stops caring about it, 90% of what is shown in movies now wasn't accepted years ago but they kept pushing and now it's normal

You say you are talking about movies yet in the same breath push a lie that in real life men showing emotions is widely accepted.

Your argument about celebrities in fiction showing emotion is not a reflection of reality and the suicide rates literally skewing towards being mostly men.

Things getting better =/= men being emotional is widely accepted and just as much as woman.
John Wick being emotional in a fictional movie =/= non celebrities being emotional is accepted in real life.

first of all read the topic title second it's more accepted then you want it to be,again it's okay to show emotion,people are more willing to accept it then you think, the problem with men it's that men don't want to show emotion it has nothing to do with other people they don't want to accept their own emotions,it's men that have to accept themselves as vulnerable,it has nothing to do with society, society accepts it pretty well