maleness
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To be “manly” is to be secure in one’s maleness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Julia Knitel has a voice that breaks up the monochromatic maleness of the score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
“I thought of public success itself, I suppose, as part of maleness, and I deliberately turned my back on it, as I set my face against manhood,” she wrote.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2020
But these two definitions, career and maleness, were a lot clearer to me than the idea of race.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
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