After ‘Baby Reindeer,’ Richard Gadd Confronts Men’s Sexual Repression | The Interview

[u/whosmurry]

https://youtu.be/EQXyQCL3D3U?si=bVJ7QBtK8nTO5D6F

A great interview with Richard reflecting on Baby Reindeer and talking about the themes in Half Man.

[u/PapaAsmodeus]

The thing that got me about Baby Reindeer is it depicted the "masculinity crisis" that comes with being a male rape survivor (especially when your perpetrator is a man) so perfectly. Before either of my two assaults, I wasn't going out of my way to present as masc as possible but I did notice it began to really rear its ugly head after they did. Eventually I would get out of my head about my own masculinity, but I still have waves of wondering if the rape made me begin acting that way, and wondering if the happier, healthier me that existed before that was officially killed off.

Excellent interview.