Patriarchal post apocalypse

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• Klinotaxis

  2014-04-17 12:19:54

  kill living beings
  

  Apocalypses take us back to a simpler time, when men could be men, and hideous psychic mutants could be hideous psychic mutants
  
• Imipolex G

  2014-04-17 21:49:51

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  the collapse of civilization means a resurgence of Manly values such as beating the shit out of zombies etc.
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2014-04-17 21:56:23

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Serious answer: It plays on the distinctly adult male fear of failing to live up to the over-hyped masculine ideal of being a great protector and provider when that actually means something. Which is to say, when the pressure is justified, you might not be able to live up to it and help or save the ones that you love. This is added to with the fact that such situations tend to erode the ability of men to deliver on the emotional side of this stereotyping: That they be stoic and emotionally firm; that they not show fear or pain. One is trapped in a kind of hell, and expected too much of past what is actually important.
  
• Imipolex G

  2014-04-17 21:57:03

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  that's a pretty good answer
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2014-04-17 22:10:22 edited 2014-04-17 22:10:46

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  Thanks.

  
  

  I think it's sort of the same reason why certain kinds of horror in contemporary settings focus on mothers, particularly single parents from middle or working class backgrounds. It's about how the narrator is forced to confront their failure to live up to an ideal and how they manage to move past that and survive or, conversely, be consumed by either their own doubts or their actual, deeper failings (which may or may not be one in the same).
• Hexartes

  2014-04-18 10:32:48

  Whoa man
• Obā-san

  2014-04-18 10:53:00

  
  

  my boyfriend is a smart and thoughtful sorta guy