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Phew good read.

I think the Broderick reading of Homelander is good... I haven't read the piece you cite, and I haven't been on the subreddit for The Boys, but part of me thinks it risks a misread if we assume that characters are seen as characters. I get the (uhm) vibe (?) that many people consume media as always-already politics. That is, they assume that some left (though truly just soft lib) group of writers has drawn it out as "1. Homelander is bad 2. Connect to alt right and/or Trump" and so, maybe, the topography of their desire is never about the character as he (or she) is given on the screen, but almost an act of watching and waiting for disaggregated moments that confirm edges of their own ideology. Homophobia, racism, etc. It's almost like they've gone and Sontag'd us before we knew it... In place of a hermeneutics of sigma males in media, they've erected an erotics of sigma males in media.

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Do you have any idea where I can actually see this ad it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet

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