As a humorous riff off of the very Millennial buzzword "metrosexual", I wrote in my diary in 2022 that I was "Aragornsexual". Because of course.
And although it’s a silly joke, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about it since.
Herein lies the first installment in my new series on the lifelong struggle with Performative #Masculinity and the storied images of manhood in pop culture past and present.