Josh Laura

Obviously, in the patriarchy, there is this sort of built in element where it's like, we have to protect him, we have to like, that's baby boy, that's soft boy, that's my rap boy, like, all of these things that we were talking about for the last two years are now sort of congealing in this way that it's like, they're getting hip to it, and they're using it against us.

What are we doing here?

Okay, that's a good question.

I think maybe the examples that I used were too niche because I would say Henry on industry.

So Henry is a character that we meet in season three who is sort of the picture of professional British success.

He is a founder.

We learn that he comes from a landed family.

His uncle owns all the newspapers in England.

He's a very, very wealthy sort of protected man, right?

scratch the surface one layer, literally like an onion, one layer underneath that, Henry, as someone who has never worked for anything, has never succeeded at anything, is bad at everything.

And instead of using that to motivate himself or to become, you know, more captivating or interesting or saying like, oh, I should actually try harder at things because my family will always protect me as a safety net, right?

I actually am just going to feel sorry for myself.

And so women that he comes into contact with are like, oh, my God, my baby.

And it's like, no, he's doing this on purpose.

Like, he knows.

And I think the problem is that when you are sort of attracted to that personality type, there is this marriage of like fixers and people who are comforting, which of course are traits that are associated with femininity in American culture.

I'm not saying, obviously I'm not saying every woman is this, but like it is an advantage that these men have because it's like, well, someone's going to take care of me, right?

This is appealing to someone.

Someone is going to have this urge to like protect me and comfort me.

And so it's,