I think a lot of times this overlaps with the dreaded Manpain, which is another reason why it grates so much.
Oh yeah. I recently re-read a classic (at least over here) early modern novel, Selma Lagerlöf's The Saga Of Gösta Berling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Berlings_Saga), and had to laugh my ass off when I realised that it's basically a pretty sharp deconstruction of the whole woe-how-unfair-and-hard-is-my-rich-lazy-privileged-life of a byronic hero, ending with the message "GROW THE FUCK UP AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS"... written in 1891. I had kind of a hard time taking a lot of current pop culture heroes seriously after that for a while. :)
I feel like we don't see that enough, but when we do, I love it.
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I think a lot of times this overlaps with the dreaded Manpain, which is another reason why it grates so much.
Oh yeah. I recently re-read a classic (at least over here) early modern novel, Selma Lagerlöf's The Saga Of Gösta Berling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6sta_Berlings_Saga), and had to laugh my ass off when I realised that it's basically a pretty sharp deconstruction of the whole woe-how-unfair-and-hard-is-my-rich-lazy-privileged-life of a byronic hero, ending with the message "GROW THE FUCK UP AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS"... written in 1891. I had kind of a hard time taking a lot of current pop culture heroes seriously after that for a while. :)
I feel like we don't see that enough, but when we do, I love it.
Oh yeah. Any particular ones you have in mind?