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Recent Examples of maleness
The men handling their maleness was interesting.
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Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
Fact is Bruce Springsteen has forever been a man of the people, a man in search of his own definition of his maleness and his humanity.
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Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Becoming Lazarus particularly allowed Claflin to explore maleness.
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Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
Jackson McHenry,
Vulture,
1 Dec. 2025
Fact is Bruce Springsteen has forever been a man of the people, a man in search of his own definition of his maleness and his humanity.
—
Kevin Powell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
Becoming Lazarus particularly allowed Claflin to explore maleness.
—
Georg Szalai,
HollywoodReporter,
22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for maleness
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To understand why men might have adopted a clothing system that prioritized plainness and conformity over color and change, this book investigates the gradual crystallization of this civic uniform of masculinity.
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The plot centers around a British teen and the impact toxic masculinity and red pill culture has on him, and is based the young filmmaker’s own experiences watching friends get pulled into that world.
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Many figures within evangelicalism have promoted an aggressive, domineering, even abusive view of manhood—affixing to it, as Du Mez argues, the label biblical.
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For young men feeling dejected by the public conversation about toxic masculinity, Tate’s celebrations of manhood were galvanizing, and his mocking assaults on feminism felt bracingly irreverent.
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The intoxicating pull of the manosphere – the hyper-online community led by men who tout misogynistic definitions of manliness – has given Glass a boisterous brigade of rivals.
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The fashion for bushy beards, and beards’ association with authentic manliness, has followed this same trajectory from irony to earnestness during its various resurgences since the early 19th century.
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It is also said to restore virility and regrow hair.
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The able-bodied white male stood for the virility of the New Deal nation-state.
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One common pitch centers on machismo.
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Culturally, hyper-machismo has oscillated from cool to lame to ironically cool and back again for decades.
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“Maleness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/maleness. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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