Is Masculinity in Crisis? These TV Shows Suggest Yes

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'We men are trying. Truly! We’re trying to be there for our partners and our kids. Struggling to follow the rules as they were presented to us: work hard, fly straight, die on the beach with a daiquiri in hand. But we’re struggling. We’re confused and conflicted because the game we thought we were playing turns out to be just as rigged against us as it is against everyone else.

Television is now saturated with self-doubting, affluent white male characters dealing with a world that no longer gives priority to their needs. The problem, as a trio of newish shows suggests, is that the old scripts for proving one’s vaunted manliness no longer function the way they once did—if they ever did.'