masculinity

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The show explores middle-age desperation, loneliness and, notably, masculinity and male friendship.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026

“We would get together and have these very long conversations,” says director Rebecca Miller, who interviewed American cinema’s great poet of tortured masculinity over five years.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 3, 2026

What Gyllenhaal was promoting was intangible, something that money couldn’t buy and no agent could secure: his personal definition of masculinity.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

“All of our definitions about masculine and feminine are evolving … It doesn’t necessarily have to be only for a man. I really like that idea, particularly as the definitions of masculinity are in transition.”

From Salon • May 27, 2026

Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight.

From "Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda" by Becky Albertalli