wokeman beardson watching fight club: it superficially appears that this movie glorifies going to basement to punch people but it’s actually criticizing this mindset and toxic masculinity in general! stupid dudebros don’t understand art critique! it’s so obvious! no wonder they are so stupid, they don’t even pay attention to movies they watch!
wokeman beardson watching inglorious basterds: this movie tells us an important moral lesson that all nazis need to be shot which is good and cool with no ambiguity
endorsed, minus the beardjoke.
Yeah, OK, derailing to ask:
How is it that “beard” has become a metonymic stand-in for “woker-than-thou young urban progressive dude?” I see this with surprising frequency, from @raggedjackscarlet etc. But I don’t think of that demographic even as being more bearded than average, let alone as being The Main Bearded Ones.
…of course, I have a beard, so my perceptions may be biased here.
It’s weird, though. Don’t the nerdy gamergater anti-SJ types go in for beards just as much, if not more?