masculinity
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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
But like the current wellness movement, looksmaxxers are preoccupied with masculinity.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
Platner galvanized an enthusiastic base of supporters and weathered months of controversies surrounding his personal life by selling a story of redemption and what he called “healthy” masculinity.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2026
It was cool to see an adult man not caring about society’s artificial rules for masculinity, though.
From "From Twinkle, with Love" by Sandhya Menon
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Ben Hurst from Beyond Equality, a UK-based organisation focused on "rethinking masculinities", speaks to young men in schools.
From BBC ● Apr. 24, 2026
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
Because it’s in this melding of masculinities, in this synthesis of selves, that I can both fashion my future and make peace with my past.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 19, 2020
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