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'Toxic masculinity' when used properly is a sympathetic term designed to highlight the internal struggles that men face in terms of how they should act. People who immediately get defensive and angry when they see it are part of the reason it was allowed to be hijacked by slobbering retards on social media. Rust was toxic to himself, refusing to allow himself to heal, shoving his emotions deep down inside and LARPing as a nihilist. The entire point of the ending is that he finally drops the facade and admits that he's still broken inside over losing his daughter.

All this makes the "he's literally me" crowd for Rust pretty funny, considering the character doesn't believe his own bullshit. Usually such people just dismiss or say the ending sucks and was a 180 that came out of nowhere, despite the entire show building towards it if you actually pay attention to Rust and aren't just thinking about how "he's, like, so deep, maaaaan."

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