masculinity
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Ironically, it also recalls Islam’s teaching about true masculinity being reflected through service and sensitivity, not brute force.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
The film is directed by David Ayer, a purveyor of wild action flicks and ballads of masculinity; the screenplay is the debut effort of Cameron Alexander.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
People like Rupar, who post candid videos and photos that reveal his human weakness, pierce through the increasingly fragile White House efforts to prop up the 80-year-old president as the epitome of strength and masculinity.
From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026
Here’s a fun idea if you want to feel great about your masculinity: Scroll through some of the 1.4 million posts on Instagram grouped under the subject #testosterone.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 12, 2026
“You might think we are city boys, but truth is, we are full of masculinity and testosterone.”
From "We Were Liars" by E. Lockhart
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On a more positive note, it’s encouraging to see that many people are really interested in thinking more critically about men and masculinities than perhaps they've ever been.
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
Against this backdrop a movement focused on "healthy masculinities" has gained momentum.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2021
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