"Modern archetypes of what it is to be a man are products of overexaggeration and caricature from algorithms, when nuance and individuality are more important to identity"
"When it comes to being a man, I am not what you would call an expert."
"Four years of hormone-replacement therapy tends to have an effect."
Modern archetypes of masculinity are produced as exaggerated caricatures by algorithms that amplify simplified traits at the expense of complexity. Nuance and individuality are more important to forming male identity than one-size-fits-all templates. Personal, embodied experience—such as undergoing four years of hormone-replacement therapy—shapes how masculinity is felt and performed. External cultural signals and algorithmic outputs can create distorted expectations that do not reflect lived realities. Authentic identity emerges through individual variation, self-understanding, and resistance to reductive portrayals rather than compliance with homogenized, algorithmically reinforced images.
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