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Actor Reggie Lochard’s character of Harrison is struggling with his insecurities regarding his role as the man in his relationship in the new drama, ‘A for Alpha.’ The character’s internal turmoil over the shift in roles and identity in romance is being highlighted as the movie is playing at such film festivals as the Las […]

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Harrison is a healthy young man living in a nice apartment with Vanessa (DeShawn White), the woman he loves. He ought to be happy and he knows it, but something is wrong. He lost his job and, unknown to Vanessa, is now working as a delivery driver, which just about pays for his afternoons in the pub. There's no impending financial disaster to worry about because she's a high earner, but that's part of what's getting to him. Every time he hangs out with his friends he's re-immersed in a culture which says that men should provide for the women in their lives and that it's shameful for a man to be doing women's work. He's struggling to hold onto his identity.

This isn't the kind of thing that most people think of when hearing the term 'toxic masculinity'. Nobody is behaving abusively. There's...