” The call of the Meat Machines” would be either a good book name, or a good band name.
Actually, the men on Supernatural are pretty strong. Klaus on “The Originals” is pretty strong, he’s a vampire/werewolf hybrid, and pretty much an anti-hero, Marcel and Elijah I’m on the fence about. On Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, there were many strong male characters.
Have you ever heard of “Game of Thrones”? The only “sensitive” type of guy on that show is the gay guy.
Justified has noting like what you are talking about. And “Sons of Anarchy” isn’t exactly a bastion of wussiness either. Jax does have his moments occasionally, but Clay, Tig, Chibs, and Happy more than make up for it. Juice does cry a lot, but he’s been through a lot lately.
Leverage was pretty good too. Suits, White Collar, Burn Notice, Dollhouse, justified, The Sarah Conner Chronicles, Logan and Dick on Veronica Mars, Firefly, Castle.
And that was just what I could pull out of thin air on the shows that I enjoy.
Threse with a Malkavian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W42k2vgY_t4
Heather Poe with a Malkavian: http://youtu.be/U5Q98oCaYPc?t=3m44s
This is a topic I’m always echoing. It’s one of the reasons I tend to find so much of modern entertainment to be so unpalatable... the lack of manliness in the male characters. I just can neither identify with nor even stomach most representations I see nowadays. I have to go back to vintage fare, just to find the solid, admirable kind of manly comportment in a protagonist (stoic confidence, moral backbone, etc.).
It often seemed that some time in the past two-to-three decades that old-fashioned masculinity disappeared, replaced by either cartoonishly ludicrous ‘macho’ action-heroes on one side, and wimpy, effeminate man-children on the other side. Nor did it seem to help when Jay Leno in the 1990s seemed to perpetuate the joke that the ‘average’ male is some fat, lazy dude who sits around a couch, drinking booze and reading porno all day.
I’ll be sticking with the old archetypes I always valued and respected. The Randolph Scott, Rod Cameron vein. While American culture itself seems to continue swirling down into some kind of depraved, faggoty toilet.
I want John Wayne and Lee Marvin back.