>>80069652Pretty much. I mean, the vast majority of artists throughout history, from traditional painters all the way to cartoonists, have been the kind of sensitive pansies who got their shit kicked in during high school by more-athletic boys and came to loathe masculinity as a result, but it's gotten especially bad in the last ~30 years.
At least back in the day, being weak and spineless was undesirable among both men as an aspiration and women as one of a partner's traits, and any character that exhibited these traits was typically either made to mock/serve as a joke punchline, or was weak so he could become strong later and have a hero's journey. Nowadays though, they almost always stay weak and barely-if-ever get stronger, and with modern anti-violence and pro-women attitudes they're typically not allowed to get strong by punching shit or so much as share equal spotlight with female characters.
In the modern era, being a "man" who's a complete pussyt that can't even verbally/mentally stand up for himself and his ideals, let alone physically like his forefathers did is A-OK, because everyone's supposed to be a diplomatic saint of tolerance now, and violence or even basic verbal/mental demonstration of willpower is offensive to the weak who cannot confront their own demons. Talking and hugging out your problems is the new normal, and even so little as refusing to bend to what's obviously against you and what you stand for is a very bad thing. What a load of feel-good, coddling horseshit.
Short version: Men in fiction have become pussified faggots with no hope of growing out of it like they used to do, because pussified faggots are no longer discouraged from being such or encouraged to drop that shit to become strong-willed grown men. Now we're meant to just hug it out like we're living in fucking Barney.
This is why boys getting their teeth kicked in as kids by other kids for being massive faggots until they stop doing it isn't always such a bad thing.
