So… this photo has been reblogged over 2,000 times on castle nail fuck:
Click on the image to see the post itself. Or click here, whatevs.
If you go through some of the responses, they’re extremely polarized. And they’re mostly from dumb 15-year-old kids (who don’t know who Sean Connery is). Some of the more intelligent comments articulate the need for, or rather the necessary destruction of, gender norms, and how they’ve changed over the last 50 years. It’s a good thing that we’ve come down from the false, rigid, and patriarchal figure of Sean Connery to the more sensitive, effeminate, and gentle notion of many boy-bands. There are yet other reblogs viciously commenting on Sean Connery’s checkered past when it comes to beating women:
Oh look at that sassy Barbara Walters glance. Where has that gone? Anyway… I find it very interesting, this whole assertion of “where has masculinity gone?” Largely, I think the image macro is wrong. Nothing has really happened at all on a purely superficial level. Instead of Sean Connery, today we have Don Draper, any one of George Clooney’s characters, Vin Diesel, et cetera. We still have a plethora of “classic Men” embodying a rather patriarchal chivalry. The difference is that the more contemporary male figures are not so much anti-woman, as Connery once was; they are now more and more pro-man in response to feminism. And what’s wrong with that? We have feminist movements, why can’t we have masculine movements? (I have touched upon this before.)
