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Never gonna get over how conflicted the FO and old ex-Imperial officers would be about Hux, and the optics of having him as the head of the military.
Im like 200% sure I've yelled about it before, but:
he's GORGEOUS, but he's nowhere near the typical Ideal Masculinity that authoritarianism favors. Hux constructs the silhouette of that ideal with his uniform, but all of the old officers would remember the --
he's GORGEOUS, but he's nowhere near the typical Ideal Masculinity that authoritarianism favors. Hux constructs the silhouette of that ideal with his uniform, but all of the old officers would remember the --
terrified, abused slip of a boy. And he's a bastard, to boot.
Even the way Hux clings to the AESTHETIC of masculinity and strength that's required to survive in the FO, the reality of it continues to emphasize his lack of it? All the way he exercises power are ways that are more traditionally associated with women/femininity.
Offing his father w poison, a "woman's weapon," using Phasma and other officers as proxies. His strengths are mental, scheming, knowing when to be patient and keep his head down, and when to bite and scratch.
TL;DR Hux navigates and operates within FO systems of power with the precariousness and subversiveness of someone who doesn't /really/ belong to the in-group -- the "real" men.
(lastly, and kind of only JUST A BIT kidding 
but the jokey moment of when Hux screams an order, that Kylo /just screamed/? And everyone in the AT-AT stares at him? Hit a little too close to the irl bullshit of:
but the jokey moment of when Hux screams an order, that Kylo /just screamed/? And everyone in the AT-AT stares at him? Hit a little too close to the irl bullshit of:
"oh when a man/masc person yells he's being assertive, but an afab/femme person raises their voice the exact same way, suddenly we're "out of line" and "getting hysterical")
