Counterpoint to all the Debbie Downers lately...

[Thenightvortex]

So to your mind, a petulant, egotistical, narcissistic, immature, delusional manchild with a God complex (who actually is often the butt of his people's jokes, if you probe into his backstory) who believes himself entitled to any woman who takes his fancy is not that bad a representation of the average man, and his pathological level of arrogance, veneer of toxic maculinity and that fact he grudgingly allows the women he corners to say no supposedly offsets these flaws?

If that's the case, society's in an even worse state than I thought.

Why are you derailing the topic? We’re talking about Magnai, not this unrelated dude you’re describing.

But on a serious note, yes, arrogance is indeed, a character flaw which is why I’m saying he’s not perfect, although you overplay it with the “god complex” accusations, it’s nowhere near those levels. And no, him searching for him nhama and asking women out in a confident way is not a flaw. He’s a tribal warlord, for God’s sake, and still acting rather gentlemanly for this status. If he truly believed himself entitled and didn’t care for what others think, he wouldn’t have asked those women at all. As for the “toxic masculinity”…I see this term used far too often to denigrate masculinity and masculine men in general, so I usually see it as a compliment when characters get accused of it. I’d take a man like Magnai over the likes of Alphinaud or post-5.3 G’raha any time of the day.