This episode is a perfect example of performative strength vs real masculine strength. Joey is performatively strong. He spends 14 hours a day in the gym and looks like it. But he has no real actual masculine strength. The moment he encountered pushback from a bunch of whiney leftists, he folded and apologized and now he’s running away and quitting while begging for pity. I don’t care how much you can bench press. If this is how you carry yourself, you’re weak.