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I immediately stopped watching that TikTok when I heard that. Aang actually represents the classic hero, classic masculinity on the nice guy side. There's nothing different about him. The entire relationship with Katara was written from a misogynistic point of view to fulfill a childhood fantasy of Bryke's. A self-insert. There's no more classic masculinity than that. Just because Aang is a pacifist, vegetarian child doesn't mean he embodies a different kind of masculinity. You're analyzing the pure surface. It's astounding. Obviously, this opinion came from a man... Aang is such a pacifist that the show never confronts him with the potential problem of this viewpoint when facing Ozai by pulling a magic turtle out of a hat. He doesn't need to make any effort. He's a vegetarian but feels entitled to criticize the food of the Water Tribe or have bones read by Aunt Whu. He kisses Katara multiple times without her consent. He objectifies/idealizes her. He naturally expects her to reciprocate his feelings. He's excessively jealous. He doesn't understand her, as seen in the episode about his mother's killer, etc. Not to mention that he is constantly mothered by Katara, including in the new movie. If there are examples of different kinds of masculinity in this show, it's more Uncle Iroh and Zuko than Aang, honestly. Aang is an attempt at that, I won't deny it. But since he's essentially the self-insert of a complete opposite, the writing doesn't follow. And since Bryke obviously didn't really focus on characters like Iroh or Zuko, there are some truly different forms of masculinity here.

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