Oh I have read almost all of McCarthy’s novels including this one. That’s beside the point though, what’s wrong about something being overtly masculine?

Just go to work, die in war, and shut up in the meantime

I’m not certain it’s the case for McCarthy’s works, but I think inept attempts at manly men could certainly veer into accidental parody. An “overly masculine” character might just bring Johnny Bravo to mind. To offer an example, I tried watching “Untamed” recently and the highly concentrated gruff machismo coming off of that main character mostly had me wondering if he would ever do or say anything that wasn’t so cliche as to be scripted by predictive text. (Maybe it gets better, but the first few episodes did not hold me.)

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Please don't cross into personal attack. We had to warn you about this just a little while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45419871.

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Parent comment says overly masculine rather than overtly masculine. Overly anything as a subjective judgment is usually defined as a bad thing. The question instead is why does op think it pushes into overly.