The Full Monty: Deep Thoughts About Masculinity, Fatherhood, and Using Comedy to Make a Political Point
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This episode explores the themes of masculinity and fatherhood through the lens of the film The Full Monty.
Send us a message! Include how to reach you if you want a response. No-one said anything to me about the full monty! For this week's episode of Deep Thoughts About Stupid Shit, Tracie returns to the 1997 British comedy The Full Monty. The film is a meditation on masculinity from multiple angles, including economic, sexual, psychological, physical, parental, and societal, as well as a treatise on the political aftermath of Thatcherism that left an entire generation of British men without jobs...
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