I think the author is persuasive. In the story of Kleomedes, when society mistreated him, he murdered the children for revenge. This action unmasked its toxic core and might even hint at the damaging nature of Kleos. Kleomedes’ misdeed was the destruction of his community and a symbolic attempt to outlive it. As the author said: “The ‘hero’ is opposed to the community structurally (he fights them) and symbolically (he kills the future).” For example, Ajax was one of the representative toxic heroism that we learned. When Agamemnon decided to give the prize to Odysseus rather than him, Ajax got mad and wanted revenge. He then killed the cattle that were disguised by Athena to be his enemies. His constrained senses of self that he only wanted to seek Kleos, and lost opportunities for belonging because he killed the cattle, were all critical aspects of why the heroic pattern was insufficient for the complicated lives we live and why these heroes, like Kelomedes, turned to violence against their own people. Besides, this toxic heroism does have an impact on nowadays lives. Because the heroic pattern is reflective of latent and immanent social relationships and structures, it enforces damaging stereotypes. While women have little space to act as independent agents in its plot and heteronormative male sexuality is almost always a dominant structuring force. This tradition significantly perpetuates oppressive structures for women. In this way, this toxic heroism manifests itself in the modern world in the form of sexual discrimination and still calls for affirmative actions.