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Mainly promoted by male influencers who apparently have a bone to pick with birth-control-using women, this claim rests on several overtly problematic assumptions, say, that all women would be best off with hypermasculine men and that attraction hinges only on appearance.—
Erica Sloan,
SELF,
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Synopsis reads: Through a lyrical blend of memory, vérité, and poetic imagery, the protagonists navigate the rodeo’s hypermasculine tradition to find belonging within their community and within themselves.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
3 Oct. 2025
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Two locals, Noé and Joseph, bring the filmmakers intimately inside their world while being themselves on opposite ends of the macho spectrum; one is a cowboy and a nurse, and the other a makeup artist.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
3 Feb. 2026
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Despite his leading man good looks and general typecasting in brooding, self-serious, macho roles, Alexander Skarsgård is a big-time goofy weirdo.—
Charu Sinha,
Vulture,
1 Feb. 2026
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Peggy isn’t panicked by her son’s alpha-male predilections.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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The description of the male suspect took her by surprise.—
Gabriela Vidal,
CBS News,
5 Feb. 2026
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Zephirine would make a beautiful gift for someone with masculine tastes.—
Ariel Wodarcyk,
InStyle,
3 Feb. 2026
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Charley was being required by West Virginia law to play on the boys' team, against young men with Adam's apples, strong muscles, and masculine identities.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
2 Feb. 2026
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And if the ecological action epic of 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water allowed the flower child side to dominate the auteur’s inner grunt, now the macho warrior re-emerges, hungry and determined and surprisingly virile.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
16 Dec. 2025
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Rather than prizing animals for their beauty, their virile traits or their straight-up cool characteristics, frogposting is all about vulnerable animals—the dweebs of the animal kingdom.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
3 Dec. 2025
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Regardless of whether another installment of that spinoff will come to fruition, Lord Anderson might have the opportunity to provide manly advice for the Bridgerton boys, who have had to figure out matters of the heart largely without their father present.—
Dessi Gomez,
Deadline,
30 Jan. 2026
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There are those drunken, manly ones who want to get it.—
David Searcy,
Harpers Magazine,
30 Dec. 2025
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“Hairy-chested.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hairy-chested. Accessed 7 Feb. 2026.
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