Ares is the Anthropomorphized Wounded Masculine
An example of how millennia of living in a zero-sum game of capitalism and telling boys to "man up" has led to a deep wound in our collective masculine.
If you scroll the annals of the internet or look at media from the past decade, you'll see depictions of Ares, the ancient Greek god of war, as a hardcore beef-cake war-lord. If we were to believe the internet, we'd understand Ares to be this mighty god, with all those in his presence cowering in the face of his awe-inspiring strength and masculinity1. Let's not forget to mention the sexual charisma he would have needed to attract the most beautiful goddess in the pantheon, Aphrodite, to his bed.
No wonder this depiction of Ares is the most commonly imagined in the modern collective! Ares represents who all men want to be and who all women want to be with, right?
Ironically, Ares accurately represents the modern ideal for masculinity, but certainly not in the way a random Reddit t…
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