Masters of the Universe tries to manage the absurd masculinity of He-Man – it should just accept masculinity is absurd
The French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan once said that the most tragic thing about masculinity was that it had a symbol. He didn’t have He-Man in mind when he made this comment. He died in 1981, two years before the original cartoon’s debut. But he might as well have. (He was…
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