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The performative male: we know them, we love them and we love to hate them. The phenomena is nothing new — the culturally attuned, ironically self-aware and oftentimes self-aggrandizing breed of male has existed long before the Criterion Collection launched in 1984 and Jacob Elordi began growing his enviable Bottega collection.
But discourse around the guy-coded canon did reach a fever pitch this year, thanks in part to a nostalgia for monoculture and the
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