Horsin' Around: Bojack Horseman and Emotional fragility in Men

Bojack Horseman is a Netflix original animation about the life of a washed up sitcom actor who has trouble finding work and maintaining relationships. He shares his Beverly Hills abode with Todd, a guy who has no home, no job and is just there so Bojack can feel better than someone. He has this need to feel supiorior but what does this stem from? Could it stem from being on top of the world and falling at one point or just the male persona. I want to say a mixture of both. To document his rise to fame and fall from glory is Diane Nyguyen, Bojack's ghostwriter. Throughout the show she has been following him around to document his life and events from his past to put in the book. She eventually releases a few chapters prior to the release of the book to garner some attention towards him. Bojack see's all of the attention from the book as negative attention because of the way Diane portrayed him in the book. She portrayed him as he is and he does not want to hear it. So he fires her and decides he can write his own novel. And what is a better way to write said novel than to take illegal drugs with friends.

This is not the main problem here. Bojack is doing all this mask his true identity, to keep up the persona that he is strong when in fact he is weak and scared. This episode shows a uncommon trait in male characters: weakness. Men are always strong willed and smart but Bojack just cant convice himself that he is anymore and breaks down. This emotional fragility is a rare case in media for men. He has a revelation while on a bad trip. That he is to blame for what happened in his life. That he made those choices and has to live with them. But he also comes to find out that though he is considered a "bad person", he doesnt have to be that way. That he can change his path whenever he decides to.