David Beckham: A Man in Full
Illustration by The Free Press, images via Getty
In his new Netflix show, the soccer star isn’t just inspiring in his resilience—he’s a one-man rejoinder to the entire concept of toxic masculinity.
Who is David Beckham?
Yes, I know he is a soccer player. And there was that movie, Bend It Like Beckham, and also that part in Love, Actually where Hugh Grant cites both of his feet as being among Britain’s top national treasures.
But as a millennial American woman, I must admit I have always been less familiar with Beckham as an athlete than as—how to …
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