Might be worth looking specifically at work on iconic instances—Revenge of the Nerds, High Fidelity, How I Met Your Mother, Ted Lasso, Fboy Island, etc.. From a theoretical angle, Kate Manne on himpathy and Michael Kimmel on aggrieved masculinity could be useful as well.

Hm. I can’t think of anything holistic, but there’s a good chapter on Tom Hanks and “American Nice” in this volume: cup.columbia.edu/book/masculi.... And a piece in The Conversation: theconversation.com/from-flowers...

I can't think of anything more poetically just than misremembering Harold Bloom's name.

Please do! I think you have my gmail but let me know if not.

You certainly do! My curiosity is piqued.

Let us not forget this very long, very strange 1833 poem by a dentists: publicdomainreview.org/collection/d...

FWIW, after one stereotypically bad experience, I looked for a dealership that employed multiple women as sales reps and contacted one of them. Not sure I necessarily got a better deal than I would have otherwise, but she was a lovely human and the process just felt so much less icky.

Thank you!!

Frankie is my all-time fave, but the pup is Mick...the rescue had named her Miracle, so it conveniently paid homage to that as well :)

Yes—very well put!

Yes, I remember that one as well!

Nope—the whole thing about Dream sending Nada to Hell for refusing to be his queen.

Woof. Haven't read anything by him since American Gods, I think, and really don't feel the need to now.