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masculinity

[mas-kyuh-lin-i-tee] / ˌmæs kjəˈlɪn ɪ ti /
NOUN
manliness
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Ohl criticised this view of masculinity as problematic, warning it normalised an idea of "the biological male who is potentially more violent and aggressive".

From Barron's Aug. 14, 2026

Following two rising British soccer players in a hotel room before their first-ever Champions League match, the work explores masculinity, desire and fame.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 2, 2026

To understand peptide mania, he said, you need to understand that wellness has become profoundly obsessed with masculinity.

From Slate Jul. 29, 2026

That is the oldest truth about masculinity there is, and we have somehow arrived at a moment where a truck company has to remind us of it by getting it exactly backwards.

From Salon Jul. 15, 2026

He clings to his masculinity, his solitude and his feigned indifference so he can maintain his role, so he’ll never, ever have to show his feelings.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank

Ben Hurst from Beyond Equality, a UK-based organisation focused on "rethinking masculinities", speaks to young men in schools.

From BBC Apr. 24, 2026

That is why thinking more broadly about "masculinities" instead of one singular type of "masculinity" is more useful and productive.

From Salon Oct. 25, 2024

There is not, for example, enough deep research on African American masculinities, Latino masculinities, poor masculinities or rural masculinities.

From Scientific American Aug. 3, 2023

We were all dressed in suits, and some of us who were more effeminate or more borderless in our construction of Black masculinities were put into this very respectable kind of presentation.

From New York Times Sep. 16, 2022

The boreal pivot, whose journal is the awful, compact blue, may, for aught I know, be hobnobbing at this moment with the most masculine of starry masculinities.

From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various




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