I, the Jury

"Toxic masculinity" is the phrase that became popular in recent times, but if it had been around in late 1940s, it would have probably been applied to the works of Mickey Spillane and his best known literary creation, private detective Mike Hammer. The ultra-machistic protagonist of Spillane's novels was known for his own brutal pursuit of vigilante justice and a lot of sex and violence, sometimes applied to the sam…