maxiesatanofficial:

its-knuckles:

maxiesatanofficial:

I feel like I’m going to go to my grave without figuring out if Dr. Horrible is deliberately a condemnation of the geek-flavored version of toxic masculinity that would, years later, play a significant part in the resurgence of open white nationalism and the like in America, or if Joss Whedon is just a dumbass who wrote an extended callout post for himself on accident

Woah wait what happened w/ Dr. Horrible? I can’t find how it related to white nationalism

I could write a whole paper on this, but I’ll go with the short version for now. The movie (serial?) is essentially a story about:

• A white male nerd who has become disaffected due to a history of bullying,
• who becomes obsessed with Villainy as a means for social change, seemingly either unaware or unwilling to admit that by embracing such means he is freely associating not just with a counter-culture aesthetic but with genuinely awful people,
• who is – from his point of view, despite the lack of any actual romantic relationship – “cuckolded” by a more traditionally masculine dude who represents the societal ideal,
• and so, yadda yadda, he ends up attempting to murder a dude for reasons tied largely to his bruised ego.

Obviously it’s not one-to-one, since your typical alt-right freakout (violent or otherwise) is targeted at women and/or a particular racial/ethnic group rather than other white dudes, but there’s fairly well-documented crossover between Internet Fascists and dudes who complain about “chads” and “stacies” and everyone around them being idiots in a less obviously-political sense.

Dr. Horrible as a character fits this mold to a tee and I have no doubt that if he were a real person he would absolutely be posting on /pol/.