What books, films and shows best represent male experience according to you?

Tumor_with_eyes · 2025-04-25T10:17:53+00:00

A book by a woman.

Norah Vincent

“Self-Made Man.”

She disguised herself as a man for 18 months to experience what it was like to be a man. She thought men were super privileged and lived life on “easy mode.”

Her experience was so bad, she was so traumatized, 2 years after she started. She deleted herself.

Vegetable_Ad1732 · 2025-04-25T15:21:55+00:00

As a MGTOW, I always want to see a film where a man turns down advances made by a woman. I don't mean because he's married or is attached, or because he has an STD and doesn't want to spread it, or because she's ugly. I mean a man turning down an attractive woman simply because he is not interested.

Amazing how rare that is. Xander turning down Willow at the beginning of Buffy the Vampire Slayer might be the only one I can think of off the top of my head now. There was the guy in Starship Troppers who was always turning down that girl, but even he gave in towards the end before she died. Got any other examples anybody?

MisterBowTies · 2025-04-25T11:57:13+00:00

In the first 30 minutes of"Your Friends and Neighbors" Jon Hamm's character has his life entirely destroyed by women through no fault of his own. His wife cheats on him with his best friend, then kicks him out of his house, which he still has to pay for along with child support. Then he loses hid job because a woman approaches him at a company outing, practically begs him to have sex with her and then blame him when she doesn't get a promotion months later, even though he had no say in that at all. I've heard the show is good but i had to stop watching there because it was so raw.

Maintenance_Fearless · 2025-04-25T20:38:56+00:00

Both bladerunner movies. Phenomenal depictions of individuals who are seem as replaceable and disposable, who manage to find their genuine selves, self realization and meaning to their lives, despite being living means to an end, and even transcend their original programming to become more of their true selves.

mike4rmireland · 2025-04-25T09:36:27+00:00

Brothers with Toby Maguire

Jaded-Help1860 · 2025-04-26T09:48:04+00:00

An Indian film called 3 Idiots depicts the pressures young male students face from their institutions and families. One just wants to study and attends college for someone else’s sake. One feels pressured because his dad doesn’t approve of his photography dream. One feels pressured because his family depends on him to take care of them. One’s dream is crushed and he ends it all. How one man helps his friends overcome their fears and live their lives to the fullest. How a father whose pressuring his son led to the latter’s demise changes his outlook. This is one of the best coming-of-age stories that capture the male experience in my opinion.

dougpschyte · 2025-04-25T13:43:41+00:00

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_(1999_film))

The Matthew Broderick character in this film.

World-Three · 2025-04-25T16:31:15+00:00

You'd have to apply a lot of relativity to it... But a movie called White man's burden.

It's basically society in a race swap kindled by a racist call to one's character that leads to unemployment without proper investigation. But in the eyes of people who don't see ambivalently, it's an eye opener to prejudices and how impactful the lack of opportunity is to someone's livelyhood. Some liberties people are blind to become apparent to them at times if it's not portrayed by people they'd rather see do it.

Now to protect this post from seeming like potential race bait... Think of how women would see a film like this if sexes and sexual roles were swapped? Women being homeless all over the streets, washing windshields with filthy rags, not making enough money and being called bums or not real women by their men after we are showed that woman worked an honest day's work like men do. Girls asking guys out and guys performing character assassination, huddling up just to talk poorly about women who dared to ask out such a "10/10" male specimen, getting them fired, ridiculed, men being the one who are shielding their kids from women, and leaving an empty room if a woman enters it with him there, dressing extremely provocatively and getting visibly and audibly upset when women look at them, judging women for wanting to be teachers, babysitters, etc. Guys marrying women and divorcing them, taking the child, saying girls below a certain height or weight, even something crazy like waist line or bust size, were undateable, and the women gathering around, talking about how unreasonable all of that actually is, and then getting bashed for saying factual information...

I'm sure a lot of women would A-Ha and then leave, but the ones who would be outraged by this blatant and outrageous sexism might be a little more understanding of some of their own when people point out that it's a lot easier to see something is wrong when people you don't want to see doing it, are doing it.

There's just so much potential for an eye opening experience.

ArabicanStout · 2025-04-26T00:02:34+00:00

Bladerunner 2049

Agitated_Channel8914 · 2025-04-25T15:44:10+00:00

Thank you for your Service. Bank scene returning from deployment.

PIF_Daddy · 2025-04-27T22:34:51+00:00

"No Country for Old Men."

One_Avocado_7275 · 2025-04-26T00:34:33+00:00

The Lighthouse, featuring the captivating performances of Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson, is a raw exploration of masculinity, igniting the screen with a fierce intensity. This stark black and white film immerses viewers in its haunting atmosphere, enriched with a plethora of subliminal messages that linger long after the credits roll. The acting is nothing short of superb, with each actor delivering a performance that cuts deep, while the mesmerizing cinematography beautifully captures the desolate yet striking landscape, amplifying the film’s eerie tension and emotional depth.

Islanderwithwings · 2025-04-25T13:40:09+00:00

The bible- Old Testament.

This planet has Billions of men. All of the men in this planet can at least find 5 examples in the Bible, that they encountered or experienced in real life. And the Bible gives you a solution.

Title	What books, films and shows best represent male experience according to you?
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Date	April 25, 2025 9:27 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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