maleness

"They see it as maleness under attack," Rogers told Grist.

Ten years later López takes a kinder view, describing it as “a precise portrayal of the male mind” and “a journey into maleness.”

A program note describes the approach as a “lens of the divine feminine,” albeit one that does not reject maleness.

Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."

These two men were exaggerating how bad they are at looking like women, using humor to remind everyone of their maleness and therefore superior social status.