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masculinity

[mas-kyuh-lin-i-tee] / ˌmæs kjəˈlɪn ɪ ti /
NOUN
manliness
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Like the Tech Right, these men see noble masculinity as the solution to most of society’s ills.

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

That makes them susceptible, however, to having their masculinity tested and questioned in dangerous ways.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 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

The story unfolds into a humorous and poignant satire that makes sharp observations about the state of modern masculinity and creative life.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Societies attribute masculinity to different genres of music, instruments, and what musicians should look like when performing.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

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

It is virtually absent from the scholarship on men and masculinities that developed rapidly from the mid-1970s, though its use in that area has increased in the last decade.

From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2022

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


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