| 单词 | masculinity |
| 例句 | I could read his innermost thoughts, and in his face I saw a look of helplessness and uncertainty as to how to behave, and at the same time a flicker of awareness of his masculinity. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “No need to continually insist upon your unshakable masculinity.” Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z “You might think we are city boys, but truth is, we are full of masculinity and testosterone.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In the heat of the party he exhibited his unusual masculinity on the bar, completely covered with tattoos of words in several languages intertwined in blue and red. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Then I remembered I’d always been told, “If a fellow’s got so little manhood he’d hit a woman, it’s up to that woman to relieve him of what few morsels of his masculinity remain.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He clings to his masculinity, his solitude and his feigned indifference so he can maintain his role, so he’ll never, ever have to show his feelings. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He doesn't need a video game that encourages toxic masculinity and brainless murder rn. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z At sixteen, my brother was calling toxic masculinity “one hell of a drug.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Some of them, like “the second wave,” I’d heard before even if I didn’t know what they meant; others, like “the hegemonic masculinity,” I couldn’t get my tongue around let alone my mind. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He always returned with the poor dog hanging off him, suspended in the air, impaled on his immense masculinity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I mean, I feel secure in my masculinity, too. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Societies attribute masculinity to different genres of music, instruments, and what musicians should look like when performing. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z It seemed obvious to Jule now that Imogen—who had felt shallow and second-rate next to Tupperman’s intellect and masculinity—would have made herself feel stronger and more powerful than he was by betraying him. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Being secure in your masculinity isn’t the same as being straight. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z It was cool to see an adult man not caring about society’s artificial rules for masculinity, though. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I guess they feel secure enough in their masculinity that they don’t care. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Somehow the hunting process has to do with masculinity, but I don’t quite know how. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I welcome both the toxic masculinity and the...piggy's death rattle. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The tragedy of “Fat Ham” is multifaceted, rooted not in murder and intrigue but in themes of homophobia, self-hatred and toxic masculinity. They Invited Shakespeare to the Cookout. They Got ‘Fat Ham.’ 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z But it’s also a symbol for certain insistent myopias of masculinity. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Does he really represent masculinity, or is he . . . well, what is he, exactly? Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z And what is "Game of Thrones" saying about masculinity? "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z In the early ’80s, masculinity courses were rare, and now the topic rates eight scholarly journals. Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z For me, masculinity represents strength not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. What does it mean to be a man? Guardian readers respond 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z It says a lot about my father’s issues about black masculinity in our culture. Janet Mock’s advice to media: “See trans people as people” 2014-02-06T00:00:00Z But a full-fledged program for the study of masculinity, Dr. Kimmel said, would incorporate scholarship across disciplines — from social work to literature to health. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z Because manhood, masculinity . . . they're so shaped by all these ideas and perceptions that don't really do nothing for us, and can be cages for people. “No Ashes in the Fire” author Darnell Moore on what it means to be “Black and Free in Ameri... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z “It’s part of a larger shift in masculinity and part of the de-industrialisation of society,” says Elias. From overnight oats to boiled eggs – is meal prep taking the joy out of eating? 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z Wounds born from living through the Holocaust, wounds born from the pressures of conforming to mid-century notions of American masculinity. Susan Faludi on gender, feminism and her own “Transparent” story: “We’re at a moment when identity is the battlefield” 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z But the string bass is also the lowest of the orchestra’s stringed instruments, and bears aural associations of masculinity. Review | It was at the Paris Opéra that Degas found the whole world — and his own tormented self 2020-03-04T05:00:00Z Like plastic swept into an ocean gyre, the wreckage of American masculinity seems to drift up to the U.P. and never leave. Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Wavering between tough and vulnerable, Ms. Doherty’s look at masculinity was the most memorable live dance performance before the shutdown; now it’s a tantalizing memory of that thrill. Best Dance of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z She unboxed masculinity for me, teaching me that a man loves, cares, trusts, understands and does dishes — all the things a woman does. Discovering Manhood in Soapy Bubbles 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z In the context of vanity, in the context of delusion, in the context of pressures related to baldness and masculinity. Perspective | Elizabeth Holmes’s weird, possibly fake baritone is actually her least baffling quality 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z He’s probably not in the social circles that are speaking about toxic masculinity, but, like a lot of people I know, he fashions himself a gentleman. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z In his debut collection, Kunz charts the gritty, physical terrain of blue-collar masculinity: a workbench made from scrap wood, a night job in an engine shop, a father’s hands with “knuckles more scar / than skin.” New & Noteworthy 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The latter is less proficient, but his stumbling, barely veiled masculinity works perfectly alongside Lemmon’s giddy girlishness. Top 10 Cross-Dressing Movie Performances 2011-11-11T06:42:07Z Mr. Magary accumulates a layered look at masculinity, with added perspective provided by Andrea’s sharp, observant son and the boy’s accountant father. Review: Hapless Brothers and Their Lovers Intersect in ‘The Mend’ 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Her latest, a brilliantly twisty story, looks at masculinity and its constraints through the character of Saul, a dandyish young scholar who travels to East Berlin in 1988 and begins to experience strange premonitions. Times Critics’ Top Books of 2019 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z Pryor brought the contradictions and ironies of racism and masculinity to mainstream attention with a rawness and honesty unseen before and unsurpassed since. Glenn Ligon takes apart a Richard Pryor performance 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z So whenever I have those critiques about toxic masculinity, I am not absolving myself. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z In total, the Charlottesville white supremacist riot was the explosive result of aggrieved white masculinity and racism. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z I’ll also say that I’m curious why there’s so little drag where women are dressing as men, where masculinity is being put on and maybe skewered. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The subject is detached from the viewer, and the viewer is left to inspect Shakur’s body in all of its strength, vulnerability and masculinity. Perspective | Nicki Minaj and a stack of pancakes? These rare images capture another side to hip-hop. 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Opera Philadelphia filmed a stark black-and-white version of his song sequence “Cycles of My Being,” about Black masculinity and racial hatred. Tyshawn Sorey: The Busiest Composer of the Bleakest Year 2021-01-01T05:00:00Z Jamie’s struggle is just one of the many ways “Outlander” plays with both masculinity and duality. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z “In my first days as editor, I just had this language — ‘the new masculinity’ — because the culture was demanding that men change, straight up,” Mr. Welch said. Will Welch Leads GQ to ‘the New Masculinity’ 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z Rewatching them, Ross feels like a man of a certain age grappling with how his perceived masculinity intersects with beautification. TV style icons of 2020: how Friends’ Ross Geller pivoted from sartorial disaster 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Such design elements evoke femininity and maternal comfort, a direct rebuke to the toxic masculinity of cinematic minimalism. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z We are currently having a reckoning on masculinity. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z I would love for people to play with masculinity the way that they seem so excited to constantly play with femininity. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z Between Trump and #MeToo, it’s been a rough couple years for masculinity. Robert De Niro Is Always Doing Something 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z Currently, we’re awash in data concerning our masculinity crisis, addressing the healthy and emotional wages of male loneliness and a lack of healthy definitions concerning what it means to be a good man. The best takeaway from this season of "Love Is Blind"? Act like Milton 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z I wasn’t looking for much — just a campy playground where Ben Affleck could show off his meta masculinity and his enormous back tattoo. When the Master of the Erotic Thriller Fails to Thrill 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Even so, many of the same matters that sent the teenagers in “Rebel” into such beautiful, stirring agonies — sex, sanity, conformity, masculinity and its discontents — trouble Charlie and his friends too. Movie Review: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Directed by Stephen Chbosky 2012-09-21T00:13:16Z What are your thoughts on our culture of toxic masculinity? "Bloody Oranges" star on playing a French political beast & "a revolution in this notion of revenge" 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z There's a commercial masculinity there, the kind you can buy. In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The image will undoubtedly be volatile; it will evolve and spur some confusion – it’s what happens when you push the boundaries of a cowboy’s masculinity. The cowboy code: Bonner Bolton on being the model all-American man 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The similarities end there; the young men embody radically different visions of Dominican masculinity, one boldly self-assured and the other emphatically feeble. ‘Oscar Wao’ Review: The Tragedy, and Comedy, of Manhood 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Everyone understands it’s been rough for men, never mind that we’ve been talking about the crisis in masculinity for decades. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z A friend even commented on the convincing masculinity of my mannerisms: “Wow,” she said. All Twisted Up by Gender Bending 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Over the years, Pat has become a cultural cudgel used to mock those with unfamiliar gender expressions — an all-purpose insult hurled at people who do not fit conventional definitions of masculinity or femininity. Who Is Julia Sweeney Coming to Terms With? It’s Pat 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Hector Babenco, the Argentine-born Brazilian director whose low-budget 1985 film, “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” became an unlikely hit that challenged conventions of masculinity and stunned the Hollywood establishment, died on Wednesday in São Paulo. Hector Babenco, Director of ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman,’ Dies at 70 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z But where “Antichrist” depicts a crisis of femininity, as a wife is overtaken by madness, “Barbarians,” in the directorial debut by Charles Dorfman, is all about masculinity. ‘Barbarians’ Review: Unexpected Visitors 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z These movies touch on issues that often come up in journalistic hot takes or political broadsides, including race, masculinity, inequality and the changing nature of work. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “For me, it all starts with language. This is all a non-starter for me because I can’t get past the term ‘toxic masculinity’.” Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z That’s intentional, because the antihero is so often an avatar of traditional markers of masculinity. The Antihero’s Last Gasp 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Bolton’s insistence on the prevalence of misconceptions feels like a reminder of the fragility of the modern American bull rider’s masculinity. The cowboy code: Bonner Bolton on being the model all-American man 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The restrictive, binary nature of these celebrations aside, gender reveal parties also illustrate two societal norms that merit interrogation: performative masculinity and the pressures of "intensive parenting." Sex and the Baby Industrial Complex: Why gender reveal parties persist despite multiple tragedies 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z It examines toxic masculinity and misogyny and sounds like it was written in fire. By the Book: Laurie Halse Anderson 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z As I’m talking to her, I’m actively having to unlearn a lifetime of misogyny, toxic masculinity and colorism. Gabrielle Union wants to talk about the tough stuff. You ready? 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z This year’s sequel, Bad Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, goes even further to subvert the toxic masculinity of the genre. Sex, booze and stupidity: fratboys on film, from Animal House to Goat 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Men felt they would risk their masculinity in doing so. Beyond hooking up 2013-04-04T00:00:00Z He modulates Steven's crisis of masculinity from big confrontational scenes with Martin to smaller moments, as when he rejects the sexual advances of his wife. Colin Farrell's best, most quietly smoldering roles, from "Banshees of Inisherin" to "Phone Booth" 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z "Toxic masculinity" can be used in generalizing and simplistic ways. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z For the past 20 years, Koubi and his all-male company have presented intensely physical performances that draw on hip-hop and contemporary dance, martial arts and capoeira to celebrate and analyze the many facets of masculinity. 6 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z She does a whole segment at the end of her standup show on toxic masculinity and how to get to the root of it. Jena Friedman: the outrageous talkshow host women have been waiting for 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, passing as a cisgender man for all the world, the troubling expectations of masculinity others put on me became more confining, and more linear. What Does Pride Mean Now? 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z And in these plays, each actor performs a kind of masculinity rarely seen on Broadway, one that wears cardigans, that leads with empathy, that admits to an emotional life — that sometimes cries a little. Men Who Aren’t Afraid of Tears 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z It was winter 2019, and conversations happening offstage and in the press about toxicity in the ballet world, particularly toxic masculinity, had altered my experience of ballets I love. ‘How Do You Do?’ On Being a Gentleman in 21st-Century Ballet 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z “It was a cultural thing for them, this cultural value around masculinity, around keeping the family line going, keeping certain things holy and sacred,” he says. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Omar’s character, a black, gay dude who steals from drug dealers, is a revolutionary representation of black masculinity that stands in stark contrast to SSBAS. My trigger-warning disaster: “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Wire” and how coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Here, masculinity is not the stuff of work, but of relaxation. Critical Shopper: Carson Street Clothiers — Critical Shopper 2013-05-21T11:44:35Z I bring up the recent furore about Jazzer McCreary being a terrible stereotype of Scottish masculinity and she bats it straight back. Fans of The Archers should prepare for a shock, says Vanessa Whitburn 2010-12-13T07:03:00Z It’s a masculinity that even drives Jamal to nearly kill another man to prove himself. From Titus to Marshmallow: ranking TV's top five black LGBT characters 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z Challenging unreconstructed masculinity is surely a priority, too. Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z “If all of late night is painted with masculinity, my show is hyper-feminine,” she said. That ‘Ziwe’ Look 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Quimet's masculinity is toxic, but it is important to portray a man who can be tender and feel emotion. "Alcarràs" filmmaker on farming families losing "this way of life" in Catalonia 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z The result is a sly conceptual coup d’art and a deeply sincere exploration of masculinity and its discontents. Movie Listings for March 14-20 2014-03-13T22:42:57Z The short piece, developed for this program, comes from a section of her solo work, “Hope Hunt and the Ascension Into Lazarus,” in which Doherty, an Irish choreographer, incarnates shifting ideas of masculinity. Review: And Now Four Dances, Completely Different 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z He started to think about them, and think closely about boyhood, masculinity and America. "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z “As they absorbed and internalized the norms of masculinity that were circulating in their school in their families at age 4 . . . they changed . . . in a negative direction,” Dr. Reichert told me. "Boys will be boys" limits all genders: We need a radical shift in how we raise boys 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Daniel and Johnny's fight club adventures also have doubled as a cautionary parable about toxic masculinity, and the deleterious effects of nostalgia addiction, among other things. Making "Cobra Kai" great again: The series returns with a parable about the peril of bipartisanship 2022-01-08T05:00:00Z In various scenes, actor Philip Littell considered the nature of toxic masculinity while decked out in a banana yellow mankini — and nothing else. After 15 years, a forest, a pig and a giant tongue, Echo Park alternative arts space Machine Project is closing its doors 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Definitely, we have to confront ourselves with our own masculinity. Diego Luna Said Hello to Directing TV With a Show About Goodbyes 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z Loaded was swiftly recognised as a foundational text for a resurgent and ebullient masculinity that had been searching for public expression. The age of banter 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z Black activist groups thought they painted negative portraits of African-American masculinity. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z How did the dozen or so James Bonds you met in this project lean into or subvert your expectations of Bond's masculinity? In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z The minute insights are clear, about class and masculinity. Review: ‘Thoughts of a Colored Man’ Preaches to the Choir 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z “The Square,” which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, takes his satirical ideas about masculinity, hypocrisy and the social contract to a new level. Fall 2017 Movie Release Schedule 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z I was an awkward teenager who was immediately mesmerized by Jason Miller’s exploration of modern-day masculinity, and although I’ve reread the play several times, I’ve never had the opportunity to see it. Spring Performance: Theater: Been There, Done That, and Now Going to This 2011-02-20T02:01:27Z I think it’s a very fresh perspective on masculinity, and I think that’s why it’s resonating for people. Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z The winner, though, was a film in which toxic masculinity oozed out of the screen, delivered with a mix of muttering and barely raised voices. My favorite best picture Oscar winner: Unforgiven 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z If I want to play with masculinity one day, I can. Six Stars of the New ‘West Side Story’ Discuss Its Enduring Relevance 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z And it finally dawned on me: Doing dishes isn’t about masculinity or femininity. Discovering Manhood in Soapy Bubbles 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z But for other artists, the physical hardship of painting in frigid plein air was treated as a test of endurance, fortitude and perhaps masculinity. What It Means to Look at Paintings of Snow 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z “Obstacle courses like these are the physical representation of masculinity, which is lacking for people like lawyers, doctors, bankers and others in softer careers,” he said. Extreme Obstacle Course Races Forge a Bond in Mud and Guts 2012-12-07T23:56:00Z About three-fourths of the way through “Song of Solomon,” First Corinthians, the neglected sister, rises up and gives her brother some inspired suggestions as to where he can shove his toxic masculinity. Tayari Jones: By the Book 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z This lesson in working-class Catholic masculinity was achieved through a series of viciously petty acts of cruelty, such as the burning of a favourite teddy bear, that continue to haunt Burnside's dreams decades later. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z But Crane’s secure enough in his masculinity to give Abbie her due and celebrate the win with a fancy, overpriced coffee drink. 'Sleepy Hollow' recap: A hex on her house 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z And “as a thing that generally only men are able to sport,” Dr. Newell said, beards are associated with masculinity. Beard Crusader 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z This would warrant a whole book unto itself, as it brings up complicated and difficult issues having to do with race, class, masculinity, money, celebrity, advertising and crime. Review: Missing Sneaker Culture at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Is this a new stereotype: Straight male dancers who — perhaps to justify their masculinity? — dehumanize young women? Two Critics Reflect on Ballet’s #MeToo Moment 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Regardless of props, dealing with a swaggering masculinity was part of the process, says the actor. LaBeouf thought he was finished, then he wrote ‘Honey Boy’ 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z Toxic masculinity was the backdrop to my whole childhood and I never even heard the phrase before. We grew up afraid to be vulnerable: "Minding the Gap" helped me see my toxic boyhood masculinity 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z Was it not a challenge to imagine herself into the mind and the words of a man who is so self-conscious about his masculinity? Book Club: Restoration by Rose Tremain 2012-10-05T21:55:08Z The story promised to unpack “what it’s like to grow up white, middle class, and male in the era of social media, school shootings, toxic masculinity, #MeToo, and a divided country.” Perspective | How should we talk about white men today? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z It dilutes the toxic levels of masculinity in the genre without offering women songs of their own to sing, instead plying them with ones that place them on a pedestal. In Country Music, Nice Guys Finish First (for Now) 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z Then following each story is a collective reflection on it, as the men challenge each other’s ideas of masculinity and offer reassurances that their childhood traumas are not their fault. Podcasts About Beyoncé, Arias and Health Care: Worth a Listen 2019-12-08T05:00:00Z None has meant as much to him as Lawrence, a character who struggles with the obligations of Black masculinity. Jay Ellis Comes Home to Harlem 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z I knew that at least one of them was carrying a knife …” But if you think Perry is an unlikely choice to interview subjects on masculinity, then you would be mistaken. Grayson Perry: ‘Boys think they’re breaking the man contract if they cry’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z The show persistently brings up nostalgia for the era when masculinity had its place in the culture, only to nullify it. Four years later, “Breaking Bad” remains the boldest indictment of modern American capitalism in TV history 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 film “Dr. Strangelove, Or How I l Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” for example, continues to offer poignant commentary on toxic military masculinity. Why Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine" matters now more than ever 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Mackintosh seamlessly weaves together the themes of Shakespeare — the harsh, overprotective fathers from “The Tempest” and “King Lear” — with the very modern issue of toxic masculinity. Review | A dystopian novel takes on rape culture 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z "James Bond is an icon of masculinity, so much so that he's become a sort of sex object - just like the Bond girls he's seducing," Gaultier said in an interview after the show. Gaultier reveals the hidden, feminine side of 007 2011-01-20T23:25:16Z You've written things that I felt were very moving and very forthright about the issue of masculinity, about the issue of how much men cause themselves to suffer, maybe when they don't have to. Henry Rollins calls U.S. men "the dumbest creatures" & Trump "wrongest possible" leader for pandemic 2020-06-05T04:00:00Z Knowing who to reach out to isn’t always easy, as men often wear a masculine guise, a mask that projects masculinity and hides the things about them that are disallowed. American men’s hidden crisis: They need more friends! 2013-12-08T00:00:00Z Because we actually are addressing certain subjects about masculinity, about what it is to be a man in this day and age when men have largely been emasculated. Nick Cave & Co. open the debate on love, sex, sexism 2010-08-20T23:57:00Z The book points the finger at a number of sociological shifts in our society such as new standards of masculinity, the sexualization of women’s bodies in consumer culture, and an increasingly large dating pool. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z First of all, Affleck’s entire career has been about splitting the difference between that kind of simulated masculinity and the serious filmmaking craftsman who’s not quite pretentious enough to call himself an artist. Best ever superhero movie (in terms of fabrics): It’s god vs. psycho in Zack Snyder’s bombastic “Batman v Superman” 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z You know, it's a great balance of masculinity and femininity and adventure and action and a thriller and very timely for some. Steve McQueen on “Widows”: “It is an emotional awakening for these women” 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z All but one of the pieces are large in scale, inundating the viewer with layers of highly saturated photos, text and painterly details that cohere around themes of hard-edge masculinity, violence and protest. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z For Mr. Nichols, “Shotgun Stories,” “Take Shelter” and “Mud” are an Arkansas trilogy, a meditation on family, masculinity and environment, especially fertile subjects in the South. Jeff Nichols Spins Another Southern Tale With ‘Mud’ 2013-04-19T18:47:43Z You can chart the social, sexual growth of masculinity in films to the point where, like in reality TV, the ordinary person has taken over. Losers in love 2011-02-05T00:03:33Z It removes societal culpability, discussions of gun restrictions, domestic terrorism and toxic masculinity, in favor of the easier-to-stomach idea that suspects are damaged. We need to talk about Ben: Kylo Ren, “Star Wars” and the media narrative of the mentally ill school shooter 2016-01-12T05:00:00Z Ms. McDormand told me that she was not interested in modern interpretations of Macbeth as an emblem of toxic masculinity, or in correcting the stereotype of Lady Macbeth as a harridan. Denzel Washington, Man on Fire 2021-12-04T05:00:00Z Welcome to the new masculinity of food preparation and consumption. Cultural Studies: Food Is the Latest Arena for Macho Contests 2012-09-15T00:37:02Z The lack of empathy and myopic view of masculinity was striking. ‘Insecure’ Season 1, Episode 6: A Real One 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z His images of corruption, violence and toxic masculinity ring all too familiar in America today. David Lynch’s chillingly prescient vision of modern America 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Yet there remains a reluctance to discuss image – something that, Barry says, can be traced to “dominant western notions of masculinity, that attending to the body is vain, crosses into femininity, and makes one vulnerable.” No more Mr Muscle: the activists championing body confidence for men 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z Unlike designers who seem increasingly determined to bore consumers with experiments in masculinity, he exhibited a comfortable understanding of what it means to be endowed with more testosterone than estrogen. Fashion Review: Italian Men?s Fashion Week Shows in Milan Go Conservative 2012-01-18T23:53:35Z And that’s a problem because, if masculinity is the default, men are ultimately going to be the default as well. There's an all-female Ghostbusters – how about a male Thelma and Louise? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z The movie has become part of the contemporary mass-cultural canon through which large numbers of men try to think through masculinity. The Men Who Still Love “Fight Club” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Dr. Reichert is one of many voices in the psychological community demanding that we re-examine how we enforce traditional masculinity in our culture. "Boys will be boys" limits all genders: We need a radical shift in how we raise boys 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Decades of American male bravado, of Hemingway woodsmen and Clint Eastwood cowboys, of rugged individualists driving manly trucks alone, have given us the suicidal wreckage of American masculinity. Even in Hemingway’s Woods, Sometimes a Man Needs to Cry 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z My suspicions led me to think more intentionally about my personal experience as a boy and young man, which then prompted me to reflect much more deeply on how I performed masculinity. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z And just when things get unbearable — when the toxic masculinity reaches its peak — Cave and Kahn interject comedy to save viewers from the darkness. In These Women’s Hands, Dating Is Truly the Stuff of Horror 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z A lot of it is rooted — in my opinion — in the way we think about boys and men and masculinity. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z So when I encounter men with deep-seated kinks and fantasies that complicate the dictates of toxic masculinity, I encourage them, hoping that access to submissiveness in their fantasy lives might positively influence their day-to-day. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Persuasive public messaging aimed at men may be more effective if it avoids the language of "masculinity" altogether. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z This film explores how our narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men, and society at large and unveils what we can do about it. Sundance Film Festival 2015 Lineup: High-Profile Documentaries Among Premieres 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z That happiness quickly slips away with the father’s incarceration, the family’s shifting fortunes and his deepening disconnect from the strict standards of masculinity demanded by those around him. Black, Baptist and gay: One man's journey from to Hollywood, vividly told 2017-06-30T04:00:00Z If we are honest with ourselves, we have long known that masculinity kills men, in ways both myriad and measurable. Toxic masculinity is killing men: The roots of male trauma 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z I come from an environment that was really machista and very patriarchal, and I didn’t necessarily ascribe to those traditional notions of masculinity. Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z When players and teams are silenced and disciplined for speaking out, it sends a strong message about the culture of sport as well as masculinity. World Cup 2022: Men’s soccer must stop silencing activism and allyship 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Nielsen’s I.M.D.B. page lists a host of such appearances, on series whose names conjure images of urban decay and embattled masculinity: “Ironside,” “Kojak, “Cannon,” “Columbo.” Unsinkable Captain of Spoofs 2010-12-01T20:43:00Z Partly, she says, it’s a straightforward question of gender stereotyping: “We talk a lot right now about ‘toxic masculinity’, but it’s a real thing. Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z Her experience provides yet another glimpse inside a particular brand of toxic masculinity: a deference to auteur-worship that, as Thurman’s case demonstrates, can have literally deadly consequences and is just as unhealthy on-screen as off. Perspective | Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship 2018-02-04T05:00:00Z Something else I wanted to touch on was this whole idea of toxic masculinity. “No Ashes in the Fire” author Darnell Moore on what it means to be “Black and Free in Ameri... 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Which is understandable on one hand, because men do benefit, even passively, from the toxic masculinity that allows guys like Lauer to thrive. Do I have to agree with those who say "straight black men are trash"? 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Or was it a step toward breaking down old, rigid definitions of masculinity? ‘Metrosexuals’ Were Just Straight Men Who Loved Self-Care. Right? 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Did you see masculinity—which is a major theme in “My Struggle”—as connected, somehow, to these kinds of questions? “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z HIP-HOP is primarily a celebration of black masculinity. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z “Out of context, I couldn’t care less about how I appear on the spectrum of masculinity,” he said. He’s a Ballet Dancer. And a Singer. And a Drag Queen. 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z “Dreamer” is no different — an alluring, dreamlike, lightly funky and lightly shimmering ode to spiritual seeking that comes with another of the group’s signature operatic videos that interrogate masculinity, community, isolation and love. Bruce Springsteen’s Exuberant Soul Cover, and 10 More New Songs 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Men who, like Don Draper, use a veneer of professional success and cultivated masculinity to mask their true identities. 'Mad Men' recap: Doing it their way 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z It channels — perhaps warns us about — the underbelly of masculinity. Of doughnuts and power tools: Jason Rhoades' art of the American man 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z But the actors said they saw in the work classic themes the director has explored in Westerns and other movies — masculinity, loyalty, the unique plight of the outsider. For Clint Eastwood's 'Jersey Boys,' a journey worthy of its subjects 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z What this disjunction reveals is a serious rift between the onscreen Bourne and growing anxieties over masculinity that convulse beyond the aspect ratio. The Bourne Masculinity: Matt Damon’s hyper-aggressive, emotionally fragile “good guy with a gun” 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The experience moved him to write an essay in The Guardian in October titled “Toxic masculinity is everywhere. It’s up to us men to fix this.” The New Angry Young Men: Rockers Who Rail Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z It’s a movie that helps redefine the perceptions around African-American masculinity. From House Of Cards to Moonlight, why Mahershala Ali is having a moment 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Not long ago it was anxieties about boys' falling grades at school and the alleged general crisis of masculinity that grabbed the attention of the media. How to parent girls: my guide to health and happiness 2013-01-08T15:04:02Z It's so protective of the speaker's masculinity, such a clear put-down of the victim's alleged lack thereof. The NBA's anti-gay slur problem 2011-05-23T15:01:00Z Last night’s Super Bowl showcased some great football, some decent music despite the tedium of Coldplay’s pumped-up blandness, and, as ever, a barometer on the state of masculinity. The real Super Bowl babies: Big commercial moments paint men as infantile doofuses 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Eustis called it “the least toxic masculinity you can imagine; there is nothing about their masculinity that poisons those around them.” Men Who Aren’t Afraid of Tears 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z They are still friendly avatars of nontoxic masculinity. ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Review: Be Adequate to Each Other 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z And the notion of male dominance over women as a manifestation of true masculinity is certainly very much in our current discourse and very much part of the play. New Flight for a New ‘Butterfly’ 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z He poses challenging questions about masculinity, about our culture, about how we talk to one another, conspiracy theories and the nature of what our our discourse has become. Barney doc producer on America's hatred of the purple dinosaur: "We can't let something be pure" 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z And Henry Jamison, 30, a singer-songwriter in Vermont, addresses what Rolling Stone magazine calls “violent interpretations of masculinity” in “Gloria Duplex,” an album due out next month. The New Angry Young Men: Rockers Who Rail Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Stripped of context, these items limn a specific sort of masculinity: not quite rugged, but hoping to pull the leather over the eyes of skeptics. | Modern Anthology: Manly, or Close 2010-11-24T19:06:00Z The intimate piece, “a group meditation on masculinity, insecurity and longing,” reveals the magnetic pull between the disaffected and those who claim to know what they want. Gibney Dance’s DoublePlus Series Opens 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Another was filled with fiction and nonfiction classics loosely divided into categories: true crime/violence, feminist theory, “masculinity studies,” and so on. The Re-Enchantment of Carolee Schneemann 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z As with so many self-professed paragons of strategy and masculinity, the man who advertised himself routinely as “virile, vigorous and potent” was most famous for underperforming. Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z I appreciate that Mr. Owens is willing to explore gender and masculinity; I get that. On the Runway: Paris Men's: Dude Surfers 2011-06-23T22:32:24Z He's an actor who personifies a refined, confident intellectual masculinity, and he stands out without needing to be the loudest voice in the room. "Love Life" resets the rom-com by presenting a Black man's perspective on what it's like "out there" 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Chloé Zhou dives deep into the American West, where cowboys young and old are grappling with injuries and poverty as well as their masculinity. The 18 most memorable movies of 2018 — for better and for worse 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z "I wanted something that doesn't have transgender 101, and I hadn't seen a real rich diversity of films that look at trans masculinity." Outfest Los Angeles explores a world of transgender experiences on film 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z He has this totally unique brand of masculinity mixed with charming vanity.” His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z Rather than a gentle poking at the silly side of masculinity, Perry’s show is a serious study of emotional repression and its devastating consequences. Grayson Perry: ‘Boys think they’re breaking the man contract if they cry’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Nivola is the sensei of the local dojo whose cool demeanor and words of wisdom soon give way to a broad parody of toxic masculinity. ‘Spin Me Round,’ ‘Small Town Crime’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z But the most revealing film of that time, about the stifling influence of work and the evolving mores of masculinity, has to be Office Space. Office Space at 20: how the comedy spoke to an anxious workplace 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z The evening pairs “Academy,” a new work dissecting masculinity and sports culture, and “blue,” an older work inspired by Picasso. Dance Listings for Dec. 6-12 2013-12-06T00:43:41Z Lerner’s exhilarating new novel — about a high school debate star in 1990s Kansas — rocks an American amplitude as it takes on psychiatry and language and toxic masculinity, and much else. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z What I discovered during the writing process is that masculinity is, at its core, a story—a story told to me by my family, my church, and society about who I’m supposed to be. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Male stars like Clint Eastwood and Robert Redford and Harrison Ford, after all, still get to be exemplars of masculinity, while only Helen Mirren is allowed to be over 60 and remain a goddess. Kim Novak and the curse of the beauty 2014-03-04T20:24:00Z In fact, for some people, gender is nonbinary, and exists on a spectrum of masculinity and femininity. This Is When and How Children Develop Their Gender Identity 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z “But I am not going to spend my days focusing on masculinity and patriarchy. I am going to carry on, doing what I know how to do.” The Face of Solo Guitar Is Changing. It’s About Time. 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z But shows of masculinity are a constant in the Gerhardt household and Charlie naturally feels that he needs to assert his manhood rather than heed his father’s orders to shrink away from the coming violence. ‘Fargo’ Season 2, Episode 5: The Butcher of Luverne 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z “There’s an interesting tension between his charisma and masculinity and the vulnerability in his songs,” he said by phone, “it’s the tension in the American man, perhaps.” A New Map to Hank Williams’s Lost Highways 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z The director Andrew Neel orchestrates the action for maximum impact, making this not only Land’s story but one of the insidious influence of toxic masculinity on campuses across the country. ‘Goat,’ ‘Dope’ and More Streaming Gems 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z Men are also asked at some point to not betray the "brotherhood" because it would mean betraying other man and some version of masculinity and its rules. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z The Tony-winning playwright David Henry Hwang, who devoted an entire play to Lee’s life, said he was the first Asian man to manifest all of the conventional American movie markers of masculinity. How Bruce Lee Exploded a Stereotype With a One-Inch Punch 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z He found that perceptions of masculinity altered across the menstrual cycle, with "a preference for more masculine faces when women are fertile". Fancy that: the golden age of the sexy geeky leading male 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z Seager has 30 years’ experience in the NHS and is a partner in the Men And Boys Coalition, which aims to foster positive public discussion about masculinity. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Thanks to Nicki Minaj and the possibilities she has laid bare, and to hip-hop’s stasis of masculinity it is, outrageously and unprecedentedly, a more exciting time to be a female rapper than a male one. Nicki Minaj Is the Influential Leader of Hip-Hop 2012-04-01T02:43:03Z First was vilification of the Germans and, equally as important, a visceral connection between masculinity and wartime service. What can artists do when the world turns ugly? 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z In a recent public talk held in Sydney, Mr. Winton tackled a larger problem: “the terror generated by toxic masculinity.” Surfer, Environmentalist, Novelist. Australia’s Living Legend. 2018-06-12T04:00:00Z The fact that the audience knows that the actors are both out and married to members of the same sex is part of the joke, especially given the aggressive metrosexual masculinity of Harris’ Barney Stinson. The great gay subversion of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z So they decided to write a book about the problem, which all three labeled “toxic masculinity” in separate phone interviews with KidsPost. Teen authors encourage boys to express their hurt feelings 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z He’s a symbolic projection of American masculinity and violence, of weakness presented as strength. After Sarah Palin and John Wayne, now what? Trump’s nightmare coalition reaches a defining moment 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z Even the white tank top is a kind of Trojan horse, a prop of conventional masculinity that allows a far more conflicted version to sneak in. For Saint Levant, Sexy Music Is Personal, and Political 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z John Travolta's starring role in "Saturday Night Fever" in 1977 presented a different version of masculinity, concerned with fashion and dancing. Disco ain’t dead: how Beyoncé resurrected dance music and its queer history for "Renaissance" 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z The power couple are a caricature of masculinity. 'Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Medium' is an impressive dual-museum overview 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z It is impossible to talk about Donald Trump — his election victory, his personal brand, his public persona — without also discussing toxic masculinity. The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z It was a weird dichotomy of being really into this figure of masculinity. In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z It comes down to this same argument that I talk in my book, about how masculinity is about creating a sense of invulnerability, because to allow yourself to be vulnerable is to demonstrate weakness. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Cho was an extreme manifestation of this resentful, racialized masculinity, and Yang confesses an ambivalent kinship with him as an “unlovable” man himself. Wesley Yang and the Search for Asian-American Visibility 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z “Horseplay” is less an acutely mapped-out anthropological study into toxic masculinity and pervasive homophobia and misogyny, and more like having to spend a day chilling with the most annoying guys you know. ‘Horseplay’ Review: Boys Will Be Boys 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z She identifies a youngish generation of writers, including Sam Lipsyte and Gary Shteyngart, who tend to proffer schlumpy guy characters rejected by women, failing in their monotonous jobs and obsessively insecure in their masculinity. Men in books 2012-06-30T14:00:00Z Then she realizes that the glove was hers, and she starts scanning these rooms full of art for the work of trashy masculinity who’s getting away. All That Sex and Blood, Mr. De Palma! 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z “Like, my white masculinity provides me access to these particular kinds of women,” he said. In a New AMC Satire, a Sitcom Wife Gets the Last Laugh 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps more subtly, it suggests that he was influenced by a predominant cultural ethos that rewards sexual aggression, power, and wealth, and that reinforces traditional alpha masculinity and submissive femininity. The Power of #YesAllWomen 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z When you describe the book in those terms, it’s very much a book about masculinity in America in 2016. “There are not a lot of happy people on Wall Street”: Sam Polk opens up about greed, wealth and toxic masculinity 2016-07-16T04:00:00Z A year later, I was fine, my masculinity wasn’t caught up in that. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Edmonds remembered his mother wearing do-rags when he was a child; now he saw them functioning as performative gestures of black masculinity, and he began collecting them as symbols of self-styled beauty. John Edmonds’s Luminous Images of Men in Do-Rags 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z He was, he said, secure enough in his masculinity to enjoy whatever I was putting out there. Planning my wedding as a non-binary bride 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z The gay-studies curriculum at Tolstoy College partly grew out of an interest in how militarism was underpinned by cultural notions of masculinity. The Unlikely History of Tolstoy College 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Perhaps most conspicuous — remarkably and hearteningly, given that Blanchard is straight — they both involve queer male protagonists, and their struggles with traditional conceptions of masculinity are part of their heartfelt charm. Review: ‘Champion,’ at the Met Opera, Spars With History 2023-04-11T04:00:00Z “I am super thrilled. Bruce Lee broke the stereotypes around Asian American masculinity in a really important way. I think this is similar,” he said. A new generation of Asian American artists is expanding Bruce Lee’s legacy 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z “It gives people who have this marginalization attached to their identity some form of power. Todd wasn’t the archetype of what we think toxic masculinity would look like. He wasn’t a heterosexual cis male.” Thank You for Asking 2018-02-24T05:00:00Z His work often explores themes of masculinity and colonialism, Blackness and migration. This Basketball-Loving Poet Resists Categorization 2020-09-26T04:00:00Z No one’s really sure what femininity means any more, and men don’t know what masculinity stands for, either. The magic number: how many people have you slept with? 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The experience hammered home for him that his reason for riding — to expand people’s ideas about Black masculinity and to promote a message of unity in some of Chicago’s most racially segregated neighborhoods — remains urgent. ‘You Can’t Just Get Up and Steal a Police Horse’ 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z He does not shy away from the charged subject of masculinity. The Tao of Matthew McConaughey 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z But a great designer is born to be expansive in his view of masculinity. On the Runway Blog: The Armani Blueprint 2013-06-26T17:43:25Z Both men have discussed the concept of toxic masculinity before. At its heart, Obama and Springsteen's podcast is redefining the toxic masculinity upheld by Trump 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z The result was a poetic stream of consciousness about masculinity, ambivalent love and the failures of France to help a man trapped and physically ruined by his working-class life. Édouard Louis Would Like to Talk About Theater Now 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z There is something about the cultural meaning of masculinity. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z So are her sisters, steeped from birth as they all are in reverence for masculinity. Review: The Women of ‘Plano’ Are All About Men 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z Are we in a moment where there is a global crisis in masculinity? "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z “We realised it was not enough to just speak about masculinity; we needed to do something to help in the relationships.” Pills, gels, customised jockstraps: are we any closer to a male contraceptive? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z It involves America’s inability to advance beyond its BCE notion of masculinity, and progress into an CE world of humanity. Civil war at the cineplex: “American Sniper,” “Selma” and the battle over American masculinity 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z Four of the actors in “Moonlight,” a film about masculinity, all deserve recognition for creating such vivid characters. Best men: 12 best male film performances in 2016 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z In the classical era, Beard explains, “public speaking and oratory were not merely things that ancient women didn’t do: They were exclusive practices and skills that defined masculinity as a gender.” Review | Author explains history’s muzzle on powerful women. Removing it is up to you. 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Even when it does not literally kill, masculinity causes a sort of spiritual death, leaving many men traumatized, dissociated and often depressed. The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Lammy, speaking at the Edinburgh International Book festival, said he was also concerned about images of masculinity and male role models for boys. Riots jail sentences 'punish the poor the hardest', says Tottenham MP 2012-08-12T17:58:00Z As our reviewer, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, wrote, the novel swells “with wisdom about the self-destructive longing for paternal approval and the devastating consequences of clinging to rotten models of masculinity.” Paperback Row 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z You bookend the book with these shootings, which is a powerful choice, because there are so many ways into a conversation about masculinity and manhood and boyhood. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Maybe this is a way for Kit Harington to assert his masculinity. Kit Harington spoiler alert: he's still got long hair – and now he's in Belfast 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z The reverse was also true, though: those men who performed the same tasks as women lost their masculinity. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z Typical behaviour: Reining in his masculinity, yet still managing a swagger. The Apprentice: the final eight 2010-11-24T13:04:00Z For transgender women like her, she said, vogueing was less common than it is today because it built muscle — a mark of masculinity. Executive Realness: 3 ‘Pose’ Stars on Dancing and Being Seen 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z Both Gray and Pitt see “Ad Astra” as a way to examine retrograde ideas about masculinity that are being questioned throughout the culture. Brad Pitt is ready to kick masculinity to the curb: ‘We have to redefine it’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z As does the cocky masculinity: This is, after all, a man’s world, and women had better get behind or beneath them if they want to survive. Review: In ‘Kingsman: The Golden Circle,’ the Natty Spies Are Back 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z It tends to be masculinity that is emphasized and valued. Is there a 'gay voice'? Director David Thorpe on his Outfest documentary 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Ali’s careful display of warmth and imperfect fatherly tenderness challenges stereotypes about black masculinity. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z An interdisciplinary piece about black and queer masculinity, this production, at the Abrons Arts Center, is a world premiere. Step Aboard or Put on That Blindfold: 2017’s Theatrical Adventures 2017-01-02T05:00:00Z Another male critic, who wrote in from Chicago in response to an article by Orenstein in The Atlantic, suggested that symptoms of “toxic masculinity” tend to be shrugged off by men as they grow up. Sex, porn and toxic masculinity: the struggle to bring up better boys 2020-03-14T04:00:00Z The music has been stripped clean of much of its overt masculinity, and most performers strenuously avoid political conversation. Country Music Will Talk About the Hurt, but Not the Politics 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z If the problem with toxic masculinity is that it idolizes men for all those things that pointlessly connote masculinity without equating to it – violence, machismo, confidence – then why not consider height in this equation? Why women should start giving short men a chance | Poppy Noor 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Crisscrossing folklore with the classic movie trope of a man-child, Sato crafts a thoughtful meditation on alienation and masculinity, and the delusions of male saviors. Five International Movies to Stream Right Now 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z McBee doesn’t use the words “virile” or “virility,” but he does write about masculinity in terms familiar from that tradition: he describes it as an identity based on restrained power and contrasting impulses. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Dapper Dan was among the Met Gala attendees who dressed for camp with an eye toward the traditional paraphernalia of masculinity: sweeping tailcoats, drooping ties, canes and walking sticks. The Best-Dressed Men at the Met Gala 2019: Risking Foolishness, Arriving at Defiant Good Taste 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z Mengiste ventures into the minds of these two men, with their confusions of cruelty and self-pity, their musings about masculinity and representation. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z It's more of a conventional masculinity, but he paves the way for Guy to be possible. From Guy Fieri to yogurt cups with abs, how "dude food" is presented and affects what we eat 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z When I talked to him, he kept repeating this point: He didn’t believe that men were bad, or even that many forms of masculinity were. Perspective | How ‘traditional masculinity’ hurts the men who believe in it most 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z It explores the fragility of the male ego as well as the reckoning of the #MeToo movement on toxic masculinity — for laughs, of course. 6 Comedy Shows to Catch in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Which questioned his entire vision of his own masculinity. Paul Scheer: The First Time I Got In a Bar Fight 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z If gender is performative, no one puts on a show like a man trying to prove his worth through rituals of masculinity. Review: Masculinity Takes a Beating in ‘Square Go’ 2019-06-25T04:00:00Z He’s masculinity incarnate, in all its confidence and anxieties — direct, sonorous and conversational even as the tragedy builds. A Penetrating Cry in the Dark at the Prototype Festival 2023-01-08T05:00:00Z It will take a lot more than a few white women to fundamentally impact hip-hop, which remains unbreakably connected to the spirit of black masculinity, for which America continues to hunger. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z You assert that in the gay community, masculinity is more desirable than femininity. Is there a 'gay voice'? Director David Thorpe on his Outfest documentary 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps because participation in reading groups is perceived as a female activity, some all-male book clubs have an outsize need to proclaim the endeavor’s masculinity. Men Have Book Clubs, Too 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z In the #MeToo era, the intent of “The Swallows” is admirable: Trace toxic masculinity back to its roots, the peacocking years of early adolescence, and empower a group of young women to shatter it. Review | Can a thriller also be a feminist social critique? Lisa Lutz gives it a try in ‘The Swallows’ 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z The goal, according to many affiliated with MKP, is to break down patriarchal and hierarchical ideas of masculinity. These Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings With You 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z The buffoonery and boorishness of masculinity was a recurring theme. Franz West: generous sculptural jester 2012-07-26T16:05:02Z In their modest way American movies helped pave the way for the Obama presidency by popularizing and normalizing positive images of black masculinity. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z Aunt Lydias are why toxic masculinity is a societal problem, not just an XY-chromosome problem. Perspective | How should conversations about toxic masculinity deal with the toxic women who also perpetuate it? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z This collection of 76 short biographies and illustrations shows role models that expand the definition of masculinity. 12 groundbreaking books for young readers of all genders 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z If the film was called "Athletes Out of the Closet" and was about homophobia, the hyper-extreme level of toxic masculinity in sports, and how archaic these industries are –– then feature SanSoucie all day. The Netflix Aaron Hernandez doc's baffling obsession with sexuality is distracting and dangerous 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z Tracy Clark-Flory: There are certain bear qualities that I find irresistible — like body hair, stoutness and the general air of rugged masculinity. Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z Yet he kept returning to a quieter meditation on masculinity and the desperate need for attention. Dance Review | 'Wow + Flutter': Lights, Gadgets and Video Create a Technological Id 2010-03-04T23:04:00Z Domingo spent decades enacting the full spectrum of what is now called toxic masculinity, men blind to their own lusts and rages. Perspective | Plácido Domingo’s reputation as a performer enabled the opera world to ignore his predatory behavior 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Femininity can be equally as toxic as masculinity — in a more subtle way that isn't as cunning as the overt patriarchal dominance in this society but it still exists, for better or worse. We're long overdue to rethink pink: It's time to move away from gendered baby clothes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z The regressive tilt of the show’s sexual politics is, if nothing else, consistent with its outlook as a text about masculinity. “Yellowstone,” Reviewed: Kevin Costner Rasps an Ode to Cowboy Toughness 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Amid all this U.S.D.A.-prime masculinity, the female roles are secondary but strong. Review: In ‘The Ranch,’ Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson Reunite as Cowboy Siblings 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z He also suggests thinking about toxic masculinity in the same way we think about people with substance use disorders. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z A more relevant question for “GLOW” — especially in a year when a toxic masculinity was literally inaugurated — might be how the show both exposes and parodies the tropes of manliness as an elaborate, fragile front. Man up, ladies! How “GLOW” exposes “manliness” as an elaborate, fragile front 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The stories of how they’d been impacted by toxic masculinity didn’t only include men. Perspective | How should conversations about toxic masculinity deal with the toxic women who also perpetuate it? 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z That vexing and ongoing “toxic masculinity” debate was stirred to seething by the now-famous Gillette ad urging men to question their acceptance of harassment, gender discrimination and bullying. Which boy's life? Esquire's "American Boy," race, and masculinity at 17 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z But maybe men, in TV and life, would be better off letting go of some old ideas of masculinity. High Manxiety 2011-05-26T07:10:00Z Plus in the mid-90s, Radio 4 aired The Locker Room, a series about men and masculinity. BBC brings Men's Hour to Radio 5 Live 2010-07-01T21:03:00Z Comic and tragic by turns, the play is a brash, profane and somewhat contemptuous exploration of black masculinity and friendship. Nikkole Salter’s ‘Carnaval’ Explores Black Masculinity 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z “Many men still define masculinity as someone who can provide for his family, who can wrestle a tiger and protect,” Dr. Watkins said. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z In the battle against toxic masculinity on screen, is revenge our only option? Perspective | The Oscars have always had a checklist. At least now it’s in writing. 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z I didn’t set out to write a book about masculinity. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Barker’s film begins with him prizing a state of heightened masculinity. The story of one man’s pregnancy: ‘It felt joyous, amazing and brilliant’ 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z He also uses his time onstage to talk about his experiences with therapy, medication and hospitalization, as well as observations about millennial attitudes, masculinity and his own childhood. What’s on TV Saturday: ‘Austin City Limits’ and ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ 2019-10-05T04:00:00Z The Siegfried I still care for most is the one in Pat Barker’s 1991 novel “Regeneration,” her achingly raw exploration of masculinity and war trauma. ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z Even if it were, the larger problem with the disc is simply that an hour of nonstop masculinity gets a little exhausting. Verismo Arias 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z In it, he quotes the social psychologist Viren Swami, who explains, “Men are losing power in terms of gender equality,” and “one way they try to reassert their masculinity and dominance is through physical power.” The Dark Side of the Male Fitness Internet 2018-08-27T04:00:00Z When it comes to changing how we think about masculinity, he says bigger bodies might be the “most” stigmatised topic of all. No more Mr Muscle: the activists championing body confidence for men 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z In these and other sculptures by Mr. Houseago, you sense a melancholic anxiety about masculinity. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z I’m interested in masculinity, but I’ve never thought about whether masculinity has anything to do with the desire to get out of the world and out of one’s social circumstances. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Partly because the economy and politics are continually changing – the ground shifts under masculinity. Right now, it’s the disappearance of steady jobs and man as the sole breadwinner. Marco Rubio’s ridiculous Bootgate: “We always have a crisis in masculinity in this country” 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z In short, masculinity refers to society's expectations of male people. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It continues the company’s marketing campaign addressing masculinity, which was first launched in January with its previous ad focused on “toxic masculinity.” Gillette ad focuses on transgender man shaving for the first time 2019-05-27T04:00:00Z During our conversation, Wilson talked about the high price of toxic masculinity, what suffering can teach us about happiness, and the life lessons that keep bringing people back to "The Office." Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z Q: It seems like, when you outfit your stars, you work hard to separate "masculinity" from "being male" and "femininity" from "being female." Perspective | Jonathan Van Ness and Tan France explain how ‘Queer Eye’ is making over our perceptions of gender 2019-04-17T04:00:00Z The Sunday Times notes in its profile that Damon shared this story "as part of a wider conversation about changes in modern masculinity." Matt Damon tries to walk back homophobic slur anecdote, but the damage is done 2021-08-03T04:00:00Z And what’s most remarkable about them is their new views of masculinity rather than femininity. Of Women, Men and Ballet in the 21st Century 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z Why is Chet suddenly a pillar of healthy, supportive masculinity for Rachel two episodes after kidnapping his child because Man Camp told him to? ‘UnREAL’ Season 2, Episode 6: Breakdown 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z For black men, ideas around masculinity and stigma are also said to play a role. 'Empire' recap: Andre flushes medication, snaps 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z In a show saturated with masculinity and bogged down by antiheroes, Ani is the hero of the hour. Being female is a wound that never heals: How Ani Bezzerides emerged as the real hero of “True Detective” 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The persistent conundrum of masculinity, whether in a ballpark in Brooklyn, a courtroom in Connecticut or a Hollywood premiere. Variations on a Lead 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z This is the setting of “Portrait of Myself as My Father,” a no-holds-barred look at masculinity in African culture and the African male body in American culture. Dance Listings for April 8-14 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z Things that do not exist in the cottagecore universe: frostbite, jobs and toxic masculinity. Escape Into Cottagecore, Calming Ethos for Our Febrile Moment 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z Washington Post television critic Tom Shales once wrote that Mr. Garner embodied “the crusty, sardonic and self-effacing strain of American masculinity.” James Garner, disarming leading man of film and television, dies at 86 We wanted the sex scenes to get a point across about these characters and about the social elements we were playing with, like class and the conceptions of masculinity that these characters have. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Directed by Lila Neugebauer, “The Antipodes” is brought to life by a strong ensemble cast that features many different shades of masculinity. Annie Baker's 'Antipodes' opens a door to the coveted writers room 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z But Bratton, a photographer and documentary filmmaker directing his first scripted feature, is alert to the contradictory nuances of masculinity. ‘The Inspection’ Review: Boot Camp, a Love Story 2022-11-17T05:00:00Z In his slightly androgynous anxieties about masculinity, Kartheiser suggests, Campbell is much more "contemporary" in his sensibility than the impervious Draper. Mad man 2010-04-24T23:05:00Z I'm still grappling with what masculinity means to me. My hot trans boy summer: On re-emerging from pandemic lockdown as a boy 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z My relationship to Caplan’s was not as straightforward as Mr. Ely’s, though I too loved its ambience and everything it represented: hard work, masculinity, community. When the Heart Belongs to Carhartt 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Abraham later offers a demonstration of his own — the hip roll — proving how easy it is for the body to fake masculinity or femininity. Dance Review: Kyle Abraham?s ?Live! The Realest MC? at the Kitchen - Review 2011-12-12T23:34:52Z Whether it uses the term "toxic masculinity" or not, any criticism of the ugly things some men do, or of dominant norms of manhood, will provoke defensive and hostile reactions among some men. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “All the norms around masculinity for boys are about physical toughness. ‘You’re not going to disrespect me. 9 ways to help boys form the close friendships they crave 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z After watching “Minding the Gap,” which compiles 12 years of footage, and after meeting and chatting with Liu recently on “Salon Talks,” I reflected on my own definition of masculinity through the years. We grew up afraid to be vulnerable: "Minding the Gap" helped me see my toxic boyhood masculinity 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z His films have always seemed to me to be explorations of masculinity, of male relationships, in one form or another, but then his world, for years, was male. Oliver Stone 2010-07-17T23:00:00Z But she also delves into masculinity, and we talked about how some lessons about race are applicable to gender. Perspective | Centuries of male-dominated history brought us here. How do we get everyone to accept that? 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z We would recognize these guys in a dark alley, not from any actual experience in dark alleys but from “Speed-the-Plow,” “American Buffalo” and “Glengarry Glen Ross,” plays that have explored 86-proof masculinity for decades. Review | A corrupt, cynical world as only David Mamet could imagine it 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z As a film, it has been variously interpreted as everything from a depiction of masculinity in crisis to a post-Watergate paranoid parable about corrupt authority figures. Jaws, 40 years on: ‘One of the truly great and lasting classics of American cinema’ 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z The two eloquent speakers explore American identity, race, and masculinity throughout the eight episodes of the series, but they do so in constant reference to themselves. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z That the ancient core workout is so associated with femininity the pop culture has invented the term “broga” only goes to show what a sorry state masculinity is in. Confessions of a Lumbersexual 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Yet the sheer volume of these beast-like images over time created the impression that black masculinity and violence were inherently linked and this needed to be put in check. Gone With the Wind and the damaging effect of Hollywood racism 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z The movie’s interrogation of young black masculinity feels as timely as it does specific to Chiron, and its hauntingly poetic execution has already made a splash at festivals. Here Are TIME's Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2016 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z "Sometimes I think sport is the last-chance saloon for traditional masculinity," she sighs. Love Game: serving up equality 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z A parable about masculinity, the movie critiques the ideology that places a man’s work above all else, including the people he loves. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Perry calls himself “a doubter at the gates of the crumbling superdome of masculinity.” Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z In season two, Nick’s dad becomes the foil to toxic masculinity, consistently showing how the boys that there is no one way to be a man. Big Mouth: how Netflix's sex education comedy remains vital 2018-10-03T04:00:00Z These toys represent ideals of gender and of lifestyle: extremes of femininity and masculinity as defined by Western, twentieth- and twenty-first-century cultural norms, expressing middle-class Caucasian American fantasies of what women and men should be. Transgender people don’t all want to look like Barbie or Ken 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z His topic is masculinity under duress, and our critic Dwight Garner says his realistic prose delivers a sense of deep power held slightly in reserve. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z In his debut story collection, McBride, the author of the National Book Award-winning novel “The Good Lord Bird,” continues his exploration of American wars, masculinity, race and the question of freedom. New in Paperback: ‘An American Family,’ ‘Red Clocks’ 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Even now, when talking about my anxiety with other men, including those like-minded in challenging the obsolete rules of masculinity, my fears are often confirmed. Why fathers must talk about their mental health 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Otherwise it was hard to get too much of a greater sense of the film’s tone — apart from the "Django"-esque western touches and the "Reservoir Dogs" masculinity ones. Cannes 2015: Weinstein Company makes a 'Hateful Eight' push 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z But when a man is placed in the role of a woman talking to other women, his masculinity is called into question. There's an all-female Ghostbusters – how about a male Thelma and Louise? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z His simmer and smoulder had aged well into a potent maturity – Connery endured endless “single malt” analogies from well-meaning interviewers – and that baldness, once feared, looked like authentic masculinity. Sean Connery at 90: a dangerously seductive icon of masculinity 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Leathers were practical, but the rugged masculinity of biker culture imbued the material with an allure that spoke to men interested in men. Why is the gay leather scene dying? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Writer-director David Ayer takes his gritty explorations of masculinity and violence to the battlefields of World War II in "Fury," starring Brad Pitt as the hardened leader of an American tank crew behind German lines. 'Fury': Brad Pitt tank drama carries out its mission, reviews say 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z As in that film, Machoian tenderly and hauntingly explores how men navigate the demands of masculinity and fatherhood, with the threat of gun violence hovering over it all. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Height is also perceived to correlate directly with masculinity, meaning short men may be prone to sensing their manhood is questioned by society. In praise of short men: will the rise of 'short kings' spell the fall of toxic masculinity? 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z He typically played soldiers and surfers and other totems of wholesome American masculinity. Tab Hunter’s Secrets 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z This idea of defining masculinity while social roles and ideas are so rapidly changing is a challenge for everybody. Wait, men fake orgasms? 2013-04-13T22:00:00Z Donald Trump used his overly long, five-alarm-red ties to signal masculinity and send everyone down a master of the universe wormhole. Kamala Harris in a White Suit, Dressing for History 2020-11-08T05:00:00Z Abraham uses the children’s tale as a starting point to dissect gender roles and black masculinity in the context of hip-hop culture. 8 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z The message — as Mr. Trump said in a March debate regarding another physical aspect of his masculinity — was, “I guarantee you there’s no problem.” On ‘Dr. Oz,’ Trump Offers Placebo Transparency 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z They brainstorm how to combat sex trafficking, they discuss wage inequality and they talk of masculinity not as a fixed biological state but as an evolving cultural construct. Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z After I watched the screener, I talked to another critic who’d seen it and thought that the ending seemed constructed to make the story about Gus getting his masculinity back, becoming the man again. RECAP: Fargo Watch: Like a Good Neighbor 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z That phrase "toxic masculinity" didn't exist then, but the phrase that did was, "male chauvinist pig." Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z They are, at best, a mess and, at worst, moral cesspools, polluted by greed, lust for power, political corruption and a system built on what one character refers to as “toxic masculinity.” Review: In the Hotel in ‘Zürich,’ Room Service Comes With a Bang 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z Armani's double-breasted suits were more than a nod to classic style, they were a show of masculinity. Armani lights up signature line with chartreuse 2010-06-22T17:03:00Z In “Wolf of Wall Street,” it is a skeezy, over-the-top indulgence that underscores the lead character’s toxic masculinity. Perspective | Pool parties are soul-crushing spectacles of half-naked strangers posing next to an artificial swamp 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z I didn’t set out to write a book about masculinity, but I now think: How could I not? Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z He is comfortable in his masculinity and doesn’t need to remind me of who is boss, because in our relationship there isn’t one. What Is a Man For? 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z The uncomfortable truth is that stereotypical forms of masculinity – stiff upper lips, "laddishness" – are killing men. Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z “Most people have an internal directive of how clothes play into a man’s masculinity,” Mr. Freeman wrote in an email. The Boys in Their Summer Dresses 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z If such assertiveness is a territory traditionally understood as a heteronormative masculinity ascribed to the male sex, does mass culture know how to assert control over technology in other terms yet? From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z Somehow, his posturing and exaggerated masculinity did not look ridiculous in the context of the time. 'Vincere' follows Mussolini's charismatic impact on World War II through tragic lover 2010-04-01T18:56:00Z The President is not alone in modeling this aggressive, vitriolic mode of masculinity. Boys and men in the age of Trump: How the president is affecting our understanding of masculinity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z They suggest how physical and emotional relations between men might be remapped from the dictates of toxic masculinity to something more flexible and real. Men touching other men: How Kenneth Tam's video art playfully nudges viewers toward discomfort 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Even later, as I befriended guys just as baffled by masculinity as I was, I didn’t connect my growing discomfort in my body to the reality of their physical differences. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I had encountered men over the previous two-and-a-half years who treated it as either a precious, sentimental anomaly or as a personal conquest that would amplify their masculinity, but he was not among them. Advice from an accidental virgin: how to survive freshman year debauchery 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z It is a sentiment that, oddly, echoes that of Parker, who claimed he would never play a gay character because of the need to “preserve black masculinity”. ‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z These feel like songs by a less thoughtful singer, one who hasn’t figured out the keys to emotional masculinity. Albums From Banks, Lee Brice and Matthew Shipp 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z This aspect is especially evident in such songs as "Yang Yang" and "Death of Samantha," compositions that ask penetrating questions about the toxic nature of masculinity. Yoko Ono's approximately infinite artistic universe 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z In a 2012 interview, Mr. Cartagena said the photographs illustrate grueling conditions in the name of a good day’s work as well as the comical challenges to masculinity that close quarters pose. Spare Times for March 21-27 2014-03-21T03:18:35Z It was, Jeffrey C. Stewart writes in his authoritative biography of Locke, “The New Negro,” “a sculpture that visualized a new Black masculinity” that was “leaner, slenderer, svelte” and “an icon of Black homosexual desire.” Questioning the Place of Black Art in a White Man’s Collection 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z His work addresses ageing and masculinity in an often surreal way while dramatically subverting the traditional idea of self-portraiture by literally turning his back on the camera. The 10 best … photographic self-portraits 2013-03-23T16:00:00Z By emphasizing the harm done to both men and women, the term has the potential to prompt less defensiveness among men than more overtly political terms such as "patriarchal" or "sexist" masculinity. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z It’s funny when Chappie watches the cartoon “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe,” because you see him learning, but the scene also gestures to the idea that hyperbolic masculinity is absurd learned behavior. Review: ‘Chappie’: a Smart Robot in a Violent Future 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z "Straw Dogs" is an artful provocation — a meditation on masculinity and societal mores in the guise of an explosive thriller. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z George Sandra Larke-Walsh, of the University of North Texas, argues that “in the current socio-political environment, and associated concerns about the prevalence of toxic masculinity, such presentations no longer feel safely confined to fantasy.” Cillian Murphy: ‘I think James Bond should be a woman, which rules me out’ 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z I think that one of the things I loved about the book and what Guinevere Turner and I liked when writing the script was that “American Psycho” is a great parody of masculinity. Mary Harron Narrates a Scene From ‘American Psycho’ 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z The genesis of it was the death of the 80s superman; you know, the death of the Terminator, which was the ultimate expression of masculinity at that time in action movies. Losers in love 2011-02-05T00:03:33Z First, “toxic masculinity,” which is a big buzzphrase these days, is real for young boys and men. Perspective | Our 7-year-old is being pushed around. Should we teach him to push back? 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z It’s easy enough, these days, to point out that traditionally conceived masculinity is pretty fragile. New York Art Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In this small moment you find several of this book’s larger themes: a sense of impending violence; the base, shadowy havoc that is masculinity; the complications and saving graces of female companionship; cleverness in storytelling. Women on the Scottish Coast, at the Whims of Male Violence 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z “This information may be of use to adolescent sexual health programs to foster the development of a healthier version of masculinity.” Young Men Want Intimacy Too 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z There is a lot in the book about protecting your partner’s masculinity, inflating it, even. A memoir of female lust 2013-06-09T00:00:00Z He is in London to talk about The Art of Self-Defense, a black comedy that holds toxic masculinity in its satirical crosshairs. Alessandro Nivola: The Sopranos film was one of the few times I was first choice 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z In her films Marilyn often plays against an impotent man whom she restores to potency by praising his gentleness as necessary to true masculinity, as she does for Tom Ewell in The Seven Year Itch. Marilyn Monroe: proto-feminist? 2012-07-21T21:05:42Z Fiction blurs with reality, and there is geology and Romanticism, sightseeing and wine-tasting and much rumination on ageing and masculinity, relationships, love, fame and comedy itself. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'We're not the big buddies people think we are' 2010-10-26T19:29:00Z Sometimes, as the choreography and music play with and confront the tension between race and masculinity in dance, they seem as if they are intent on seduction. Neil Greenberg’s New Dance ‘Betsy’ Is a Wild Child 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z So designers on the runway this week engaged in a continuing dialogue about how clothing defines masculinity and femininity — and how it scrambles these notions, too. Gender Fluidity on the Runways 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z The image clearly juxtaposes cultures, and perhaps notions of masculinity, art, propaganda and power. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z Do you feel as if it’s made more difficult being a black guy, given that we’re fed this even more pronounced, media-exaggerated construct of black masculinity? Insecure's Jay Ellis: 'Every time I've been pulled over, I thought I was going to get killed' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Amid all the strident masculinity, showgirls endure as the reigning female image of a time when Vegas was a much smaller, cooler and iconic place. The sad demise and curious afterlife of the Vegas showgirl 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z Szalay writes with voluptuous authority about masculinity under duress in this novel in stories. 100 Notable Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z Our reviewer, Stephanie Powell Watts, called it “an ambitious attempt to tell a story of despotism and terror, toxic masculinity and survival.” New in Paperback: ‘Exciting Times’ and ‘Leave Only Footprints’ 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z There’s a comic aspect to some of this: Humiliation has a reliable role in stand-up shtick, and Mr. Acconci’s burlesque of masculinity can be hilarious. Review: Vito Acconci Invites You to Watch Him as He Watches Us 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z Sensitive to the nuances of culture and the blurred boundaries between homosocial masculinity and homosexual desire, “The Wound” is affecting and suspenseful even as it hits a few predictable beats. From Brooklyn to South Africa, 8 Filmmakers to Watch 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z In doing so, “The Great Depresh” serves as a solid cultural critique of a generation that is still slowly unfurling antiquated, narrow definitions of manhood and masculinity. HBO’s comedy special “The Great Depresh” is a painfully funny look at mental health 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z “I enjoy the range of masculinities they’re trying to portray,” Professor Miller said. Pushing the Boundaries of Black Style 2011-08-17T23:25:33Z But “The Grey” unfolds in a mood of grim earnestness and is grounded in an idea of masculinity under duress that is no less authentic for being thoroughly sentimental. Movie Review: Liam Neeson in Joe Carnahan?s Thriller ?The Grey? 2012-01-26T22:19:02Z Mr. Szalay’s subject in “All That Man Is” — the title is deeply ironic — is masculinity under duress. Review: ‘All That Man Is,’ and a Lot He Is Not, in David Szalay’s View 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Even the sensitive way Haider uses his body when dancing is cause for concern in an environment where masculinity is harshly policed. An L.G.B.T. Pakistani Film, Banned at Home, Is Celebrated Abroad 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z When he offers Billy the chance to live rent-free in his apartment, the relationship becomes a crucible, driven by questions about power, class and masculinity. 14 New Books to Watch For in February 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z However disreputable its hoary thesis — that real masculinity resides in the fists — its director, Ilya Naishuller, knows how to make a film move. ‘Nobody’ Review: A Wolf in Wimp’s Clothing 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z The ad, "entitled We Believe, begins with a compilation of actions commonly associated with 'toxic masculinity,'" a press release stated. Gillette addresses 'toxic masculinity' in new ad campaign 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Addressing issues of Black masculinity, as well as racism and discrimination, Staub's film uses its crowd-pleasing approach to teach its values. Idris Elba drama "Concrete Cowboy" brings audience along for a crowd-pleasing ride 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z Braiding masculinity and femininity, her arms slowly swirl around her undulating torso. Review: An Astute Choreographer Stumbles (and Rises) to Hope 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z This script makes Kevin a musician instead of a writer, leading Weylin and his peers to constantly question his masculinity atop their distrust of his care for Dana's safety. Butler's "Kindred" features a Black woman doing what most people fear: grappling with ugly history 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z “This whole generation,” Mr. Hainey added, “grew up in bland, empty, sexless exurbs where there was no grit or masculinity. It’s no surprise ‘heritage’ resonated with them. Taavo Somer Can Make Anything Cool, Even Golf 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z This Russian novel riffs on Gogol and on post-Soviet masculinity; its hero wakes up missing something more delicate than his nose. New & Noteworthy, From Russian Satire to the Comet Apocalypse 2021-01-05T05:00:00Z The actor chatted with Salon about making "Cowboys," his thoughts on masculinity, parenting, and the appeal of making a film in Montana. "If it doesn't scare the cows, who cares?": Steve Zahn weighs in on gender identity in "Cowboys" 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z A major voice against the Vietnam war, Bly is also known for being one of the leaders of "the expressive men's movement", which aspires to reconnect men with their masculinity. Robert Bly to receive Poetry Society of America's Frost Medal 2013-02-14T17:49:35Z More work, too, can be done to explore how conflicting ideas of Christian manhood coexist within white evangelical communities and how conceptions of Christian masculinity vary across racial divides. From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z From the beginning of “Peaky Blinders,” when the show’s characters were still emerging from the shadow of World War I, masculinity and violence have been inextricably linked. Saying Goodbye to Tommy Shelby, a Traumatized TV Antihero 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Was it curiosity around masculinity — questions of what men should do and be — that had led them to these roles, that had pushed them to re-create them on Broadway? Men Who Aren’t Afraid of Tears 2019-07-31T04:00:00Z These bodies’ rough seams, the tiny rips in the fabric of their masculinity, might seem to expose some underlying truth about the history or nature of trans embodiment. Transgender Portraits and the Things a Body Won’t Tell 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z He missed a step in the tango of toxic masculinity. Will Smith and the function of a slap – what it means for comedy and comedians 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z “Stranded here in the desert of American masculinity,” she wrote, “the scenes of the male housemates crying are a rare and inviting oasis.” What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable’ and ‘Terrace House’ 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z I don't use the "toxic" and "healthy" masculinity framework very much because masculinity is a mixed bag. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But you could just as easily diagnose the late Victorian strain of toxic masculinity. The Shape-Shifting Sherlock Holmes, Now Playing the Villain 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z Ronin Palamo is the wide receiver for the Washington Warriors football team and a perfect specimen of athletic masculinity with a devastating charisma to match. Sarah MacLean picks the best romance novels to read this month 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z A Fox News commentator pronounced the toenail-painting no less than “an attack on masculinity.” Jenna Lyons, the Woman Who Dresses America 2013-01-18T22:17:58Z “Wolf” offers a brief on a slier brand of predatory masculinity: “Don’t wear no suit/We’re talking T-shirts.” New Releases From Conor Oberst and Brantley Gilbert 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Deshon’s thrillingly demented feature film debut explores what happens when fragile masculinity meets unquestioned faith and fanaticism. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z Jordan Casteel: This image of a black man crying challenges our perceptions of masculinity and strength in our community. Fifty Years Later, Black Panthers’ Art Still Resonates 2016-10-15T04:00:00Z This is hard to do when you have just one word, “masculinity,” to describe male identity. When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The performer’s movements often evoke the choreography of Kabuki theater — as do the extremes of masculinity and femininity — and offer seeming hints of Celtic tribal dance. Theater Review | 'Forgotten': Conjuring Up Elders, With Their Secrets and Surprises Intact 2010-03-02T22:40:00Z I am proof of your masculinity, of your endless potency. A memoir of female lust 2013-06-09T00:00:00Z All unflattering terms, because being dependent on a female, even your mother after a certain age, shows a lack of masculinity, just as having a young and hot wife enforces your perceived manhood. I was a kept man 2013-04-08T01:00:00Z Sex workers, like all women, are fighting the battle against toxic masculinity. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z An avid student reader of this magazine in the 1980s, I learned that masculinity is a cultural construct, and that Madonna was a feminist. Eric Hobsbawm changed how we think about culture 2012-10-02T14:29:06Z And, unlike Tarantino, Scorsese and some other American male directors this year who have clearly been thinking — and anguishing — about men and masculinity, Bong incorporates women throughout his movie. Will the Oscars Get as Nostalgic as Hollywood Did in 2019? 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z In a world filled with toxic masculinity and conservatives lamenting the decline of alpha men, a golden retriever boyfriend doesn’t even know what the word “simp” means. Why does everyone want to date a "golden retriever boyfriend?" 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z “Virile” is an unsympathetic elegy for old-line masculinity, a march that sometimes melts into a swirl of harp, voices, flutes and strings, with taut wordplay about the construction of male identity: Moses Sumney and Perfume Genius: Complex Voices of Desire 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z The two share much in common; in particular, a wave of appraisals for how they’ve challenged and defied stereotypes about masculinity in pop culture. As ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ End, Two Groundbreaking TV Characters Say Goodbye 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Was my sense of what makes someone a man skewed by having grown up with a father who had her femininity to hide and her masculinity to prove? When a Dad’s Secret Changes Everything 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Twenty years ago, we had less nuanced conversations about Black masculinity than we are having now. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z These musketeers are a merciless portrait of masculinity in crisis: obese, drunk and narcissistic. The Three Musketeers and the?Princess of Spain 2010-12-08T22:31:00Z There was a feeling of pure unapologetic masculinity to this show, with its red, white and blue color palette for day and classic grays for athletic evening attire. 2010-01-19T05:09:00Z Wright also advanced a theory of Bigger Thomas as a reproducible trope, a mass-produced archetype of black masculinity. “Native Son” and the Cinematic Aspirations of Richard Wright 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z Everyday tales told by people like Tanekwah Hinds, a health care coordinator who characterizes her own style — one blending “femininity and masculinity together,” as “Dapper femme” — light up “Gender Bending Fashion.” Fashion for a Blurring Binary 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z As a result, I wondered how Lincoln and Booth would appear as millennials and in a moment of greater gender fluidity and more nuanced masculinity than the one in which Parks originally conceived them. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z You could call that more of an anti-sports movie, but given the cliches of the genreand a certain instability in ideas of American masculinity, there’s often a more interesting story. Pull no punches: how sports movies swapped triumph for truth 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z “Your experience isn’t unique,” says Professor Damien Ridge, who specialises in masculinity and men’s wellbeing at the University of Westminster. Is it just me... or does everyone lose friends in their 30s? 2015-11-07T05:00:00Z As disparate in tone and theme as these two projects are each underscores Harper's unique appeal, a gentlemanly masculinity that's sharp and soulful, a calming anchor regardless of whatever is exploding around him. These MVPs of television delivered greatness in a year that almost broke us 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, when the allegations are about a male authority figure, potshots about the alleged victim's masculinity or sexual orientation are often seen as fair game. Rep. Jim Jordan’s “locker room talk” denial: Waving off sex abuse complaints shows limits o... 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z For Mr. Lopez, the ability to rear children is tied to his beliefs about masculinity. Why Don’t More American Men Get Vasectomies? 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z In both films, the dynamics of performative masculinity are on florid display, with men strutting their macho stuff to gain the approval of their male peers, even when they’re with women. ‘Burning Sands’ tackles the camaraderie and contradictions of HBCU frat life 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z It is an antidote to the hysteria of modern life; in a sea of toxic masculinity, Pera cuts a benign figure, though he isn’t into the idea that the show is in any way political. 'The shipping forecast, with jokes': Joe Pera's brilliantly boring comedy 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z For me Frank is an "alpha male" and that very type of masculinity made me very interested in him as a character. Why the Punisher is more relatable than Superman: "Anger is an easier feeling" 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z A highly emotional rumination about the toxic side of contemporary masculinity, “Boys in Trouble” looks at the struggle to fight, adhere to and ultimately rebrand what it means to be masculine. Review: A Transgender Choreographer Takes on Machismo 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Early imagery stressed ideas of speed and masculinity, sometimes equating the two. Review | Some cars are more seductive than art. Should they be included in art museums? 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Mamet contrasts Teach’s macho postures with Don’s gentler but by no means refined version of masculinity: avuncular yet menacing, slower to anger yet never quite nice. Review: In ‘American Buffalo,’ Grift Is the Coin of the Realm 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z It also means that our fight for justice, though it includes Black men, is also not about their toxic masculinity. I'm a Black woman, not a "woman of color." Here's why I make that distinction 2020-09-05T04:00:00Z The grizzled veteran can pretty much make whatever he wants – which is invariably a story of stoic, white, militaristic American masculinity saving the day. In the line of dire: let's call time on Clint Eastwood's macho movies 2018-01-29T05:00:00Z But as Hollywood itself belatedly reckons with toxic masculinity and the harmful, abusive ways it’s reared its head, more complicated portraits of men are upon us. Boys on film: what we can learn about masculinity from Hollywood 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z But they embody the threats implicit in their combative masculinity without overdoing it. Theater Review: ‘The Assembled Parties,’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater 2013-04-18T02:00:35Z After departing that temple of crinkly-eyed, taciturn masculinity, with a “Rooster Cogburn” Christmas ornament in hand, I saw that it was lunchtime. Iowa’s Heartland Beyond the Campaign Trail 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z Combined with traditional ideas of all-powerful masculinity, it is a recipe for trouble. Carnality and consent: how to navigate sex in the modern world 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Dowell remains my ultimate lyrical classicist, the man who extended our idea of masculinity in ballet into unsurpassed poetry. ‘A Month in the Country,’ as Experienced at Age 20 2013-07-24T15:59:17Z When it comes to raising boys, fathers have traditionally been regarded as playing a key role in the development of their son's masculinity. Fathering and masculinity in the age of COVID-19: A noteworthy silver lining 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z Read more here Grayson Perry: All Man The artist braves it with teenage gangs, cage fighters and city brokers for this insightful – and at times extremely moving – examination of the problems caused by modern masculinity. The best TV of 2016 so far 2016-06-15T04:00:00Z Finally, in his 2012 film “Amity,” Mr. Adams plumbs the depths of toxic masculinity. Spike Lee’s ‘Pass Over,’ an Offbeat Melding of Cinema and Theater 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z An icon of a certain bold masculinity, of war and adventure, of fishing and hunting and drinking, Hemingway’s life was spectacular enough in its facts, yet nonetheless seems to inspire perpetual embellishment. Raise a glass to 1920s Paris and the Americans who imbibed there 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Her high-profile transition from male—as the athlete Bruce Jenner, she was a gold medalist at the 1976 Olympic Games, the apotheosis of masculinity—to female was quickly welcomed by spokespeople for the transgender community. Caitlyn Jenner’s Big Début 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z The resulting installations, at once intimate and subversive, polarized the critics: Some dismissed Mr. Burden as a mountebank, while others praised his explorations of masculinity, martyrdom and the Romantic ideal of suffering for one’s art. Chris Burden, a Conceptualist With Scars, Dies at 69 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The death toll of masculinity is attributed to its more specific manifestations: alcoholism, workaholism and violence. The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Maverick is struggling with navigating his daily life, all the while wrestling with the performative trap of masculinity and questioning how his actions will affect the legacy he hopes to build. Angie Thomas’s ‘Concrete Rose’ Is a Love Song for Young Black Lives 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z But it’s not the only place where there’s anxiety around masculinity. Marco Rubio’s ridiculous Bootgate: “We always have a crisis in masculinity in this country” 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z Is traditional masculinity — assuming for a moment that we have any idea what that term means — under attack? Rape, domestic violence and football: The last battle for American masculinity 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Kaufman, of course, is the clever one here, and he has a blast tweaking toxic masculinity, celebrity worship, political correctness, filmmaking, therapy, high art, low art and much more. Review | Charlie Kaufman’s debut novel, ‘Antkind,’ is just as loopy and clever as his movies 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z It goes on to discuss a host of problems — bullying, harassment, sexism — tied to toxic masculinity. Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z "I was very impressed by her masculinity, somehow, her toughness." Jacques Audiard praises B movies at Cannes 2012-05-20T11:04:10Z The gaze is direct and uncompromising, but not ogling – a scene of different presentations of masculinity literally presenting to judges, an audience and the camera of film-maker T Cooper. Man Made: behind a powerful documentary about trans bodybuilders 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z There is, obviously, a toxic masculinity at work in "The Other Lamb." "He is a terrible man": Michiel Huisman on playing a cult leader in horror flick "The Other Lamb" 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z “Hip-hop gave me a certain view of masculinity,” he said, “which I think has made it difficult for me to be into the kind of dandyism that some of my peers are into.” Hip-Hop as Bravado and Legacy for Men’s Fashion 2012-11-14T21:50:13Z We weren’t yet talking about toxic masculinity in 1972 — at least not in those specific terms. ‘The Godfather’ Explained in Seven Quotes 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z "These guys are all addicted and all lost in a certain bottle. It describes the alienation of men in post-modern time, where we as men built this idea of what masculinity is." "It's been a life-changing experience for me": How a play about drinking helped Andre Royo get sober 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Next to Rick Owens, no designer essays more consistently and trenchantly on the tenuousness of masculinity as a concept. Milan Men’s Wear Shows Signs of a Renaissance 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z It's all to do with our collective psyche and the archetypes and absolutes we recognise as what masculinity means. Losers in love 2011-02-05T00:03:33Z Sita’s decision to remain in the forest . . . reflects her defiance of toxic masculinity. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z Young discusses the extent to which his interest in Tracey became less about her as a person than it was about proving something about his masculinity to the people around him. Review | In ‘What Doesn’t Kill You Makes You Blacker,’ Damon Young turns an unflinching eye on himself and society 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z “Traditional masculinity” itself — the term refers to a Western concept of manliness that relies — and sometimes over-relies — on stoicism, dominance, aggression and competitiveness. Perspective | How ‘traditional masculinity’ hurts the men who believe in it most 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z "The left want to define traditional masculinity as toxic," Hawley said in an address to the National Conservatism Conference in 2021. "Dairy Pride" and "soy boys": The heated identity politics of non-dairy milk 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z With his knowledge of art and literature, his rugged masculinity, and his famously mellifluous voice, the director eventually won her over. Anjelica Huston: My father John's wildest shoot 2010-05-11T20:35:00Z Let's talk about this masculinity, because the film sets this up very early. “Whitney” director on Houston’s untold story: “Whitney had been abused, and it took a hug... 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z It was, I felt, the nadir of masculinity. A frat boy’s “gay experience” 2014-04-21T00:00:00Z Could virility cut itself loose from masculinity, leaving behind its misogynistic baggage to become a post-gender ethic of disciplined vigor, controlled engagement, deliberate strength, and circumspect courage? When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Country is more than a genre — it is a culture steeped in conservatism, masculinity and whiteness. The Chicks Are Done Caring What People Think 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Power is such a traditional expression of masculinity, which is why the power dynamics in relationships between men fascinate me. Taymour Soomro on the Sights, Sounds, and Social Dynamics of Karachi 2018-12-31T05:00:00Z At the same time McBride also plumbs the vast emotional terrain underneath performances of masculinity, questioning what it is to be a man rather than a woman rather than a boy rather than a beast. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z “When the movie is focused on Jacky’s desperate and futile efforts to be a superman, it becomes a stark tragedy of masculinity and its chemical boundaries,” Stephen Holden wrote in The Times in February. DVD: Charlie Chaplin in ‘The Gold Rush,’ Remastered 2012-06-22T16:00:00Z One who expresses gender outside traditional norms associated with masculinity or femininity. The ABCs of L.G.B.T.Q.I.A.+ 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z “Henry will challenge these centuries of colonial thinking about east Asian masculinity.” The new heart-throbs: how Hollywood embraced east Asian actors, from Henry Golding to Simu Liu 2019-11-10T05:00:00Z The “we” is Irish men of Doyle’s generation, who he says took a long time to get over their inherited understanding of masculinity, if they ever fully did. 4 Writers to Watch This Summer 2020-05-13T04:00:00Z His androgyny, too, helped shatter restrictive notions of black masculinity. Can 48 Artists in 14 Rooms Capture Michael Jackson? 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z Although nostalgia for 1980s pop culture is in fashion, we’re also witnessing a new assessment and redefinition of masculinity, a lens that does not favor the latest updates to Hopper’s character profile. "Stranger Things 3" gives us a meaner Hopper, and we're not loving it 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z Unsettled by their aggressive masculinity, Steinem was stunned one morning when a leather-clad woman approached. Gloria Steinem revs up memories and travels in 'My Life On the Road' memoir 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z It would be pretentious to say the discussions were about masculinity, because those conversations happen more now, but without using that language we were trying to explore that. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z “There’s an element of flawed masculinity at play,” Ms. Shifman said. Crying Jordan: The Meme That Just Won’t Die 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z All of these characters are unique but speak to a broadening notion of acceptable black masculinity in the mainstream. On ‘The Good Place,’ Chidi Redefines the Black Nerd 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z ABC's newest manxiety sitcom is about men estranged from their masculinity, and it will never let you forget that. Review: The Descent of Man Up! 2011-10-18T16:46:00Z There’s likely a more simple explanation: the appeal of two grown men engaging in nontoxic masculinity. ‘How Long Gone’ Is in It for the Long Haul 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z The vehemence with which those around Tommy react to his not drinking speaks volumes as to how they view masculinity. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z Reduce like a white sauce and privilege masculinity. Poker for girls: In New York’s male-dominated world of underground poker, I found my true strength 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z Kelly invented the island of Sanlagita, but the issues its inhabitants face — toxic masculinity and gender stereotypes, among them — are familiar to many kids. The best children’s books of 2019 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The test of the play is who comes out on top, so masculinity is always on display within that room. In ‘Topdog/Underdog,’ They Perfect the Art of Deception 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z “I saw zero representation of transmasculinity,” he says, using an umbrella term that means different things to different people but often describes trans men and nonbinary people who identify more with masculinity. The Trans Actors Challenging Outmoded Ideas of Masculinity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z The insistence that men can be strong and vulnerable at the same time without risking their masculinity is at the heart of each of these programs. Nobody has to “man up” here: Feminist shows “Jessica Jones” and “Transparent” are also a win for men 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Roy, who grew up in Northern California, said “Blindspotting” was particularly timely because it grapples with a range of issues affecting American life: racial profiling, toxic masculinity, fear of change. Oakland in Their Bones, and in Their Films 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z Rethinking masculinity is a lot like learning a new language. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z He had to put on this shield of swagger, bluster and masculinity. The peak of Sinatra’s power: “Every Sinatra performance was acting. His greatest performance was as himself” 2015-11-21T05:00:00Z In Ms. Doherty’s solos of the past several years, her body has become a conduit for expressions of working-class, Northern Irish masculinity, a subject she approaches with candor and compassion. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z By that I don’t mean baseball itself but the examination of masculinity through its lens. Review: In ‘Take Me Out,’ Whose Team Are You On? 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Set in 1925 Montana — but filmed in New Zealand — "The Power of the Dog" is an exacting drama about masculinity, toxic and otherwise. Benedict Cumberbatch is intimidating in Jane Campion's exquisite and potent "Power of the Dog" 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z Should they put masculinity to the fore, with all the strength of geometric lines and sleekly tailored fabrics? Céline’s Scissor Sister 2014-03-02T20:20:24Z The new album by the brutalist British band Idles, “Joy as an Act of Resistance,” uses toxic masculinity as a sustained theme. The New Angry Young Men: Rockers Who Rail Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Some guy came, he was like, “I got a lot of toxic masculinity, and I cried at the end of this one.” Marjan Neshat on Her ‘Kind of Miraculous Season’ Onstage 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z In the discussion around #MeToo, there’s been a lot of talk about “toxic masculinity”. A feminist's guide to raising boys 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Being on top simply requires the application of confidence and assertion and a willingness to perform masculinity according to what is normative. Why men have so much trouble making friends 2014-04-12T16:00:00Z There’s a kernel of something in this tiny, peripheral movement that might speak to larger questions: regarding our expectations of modern masculinity, regarding how to truly measure equality. Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong But when he’s on, which is frequently enough, Perry is an eloquent and witty tour guide through the fun house that is modern masculinity. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The morning I am due to meet Grayson Perry for a discussion on masculinity, my own issues on the topic are brought into sharp focus. Grayson Perry: ‘Boys think they’re breaking the man contract if they cry’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z His collection of subtly linked short stories — the title is deeply ironic — is about masculinity under duress. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Originally, it was to take place at a Doubletree in Detroit, a city picked because it was an “iconic testament to masculinity,” according to promotional materials. Men’s rights activists, gathering to discuss all the ways society has done them wrong A book titled “Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different,” by Ben Brooks, offers snapshots of men who’ve challenged notions of masculinity. Beyond Battles, Boogers and Pranks 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z "This coming-of-age story is centered around a boy who avoids the hallmarks of traditional masculinity," Caroline Cao wrote for Salon in March. In viral anti-racism PSA, "Steven Universe" character Pearl challenges our whitewashed history 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z They are not so interested in the illusions of drag; their masculinity is as plain as their femininity, which drives the more cretinous of their neighbors to apoplexy: “You ain’t no woman!” shouts a passerby. ‘The Prancing Elites Project’: Loved from afar, but unwelcome at home 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z Like many new fields, masculinities studies brings with it varying degrees of skepticism. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z An exhibition about hair is also an exhibition about self-presentation and self-perception, difference and hierarchy, race, religion, control, disgust, childhood, adulthood, masculinity and femininity. Big Hair and Big Thoughts at a Paris Museum 2023-07-28T04:00:00Z “Made in America” is never better than when dismantling what Dyson refers to as “the politics of black masculinity.” Review | In Michael Eric Dyson’s new book, Jay-Z is the living embodiment of American ideals 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z It’s a near-documentary, in its look at gang culture, gentrification, and the damaging effects of toxic masculinity. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z When “Glengarry Glen Ross” was released in November 1992, it seemed like a commentary on what we now dub “toxic masculinity” at the end of the George H.W. Alan Arkin Could Do It All. In ‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ He Did. 2023-06-30T04:00:00Z Q: The film also explores, in part, how societal expectations for men, and about masculinity, have to change to facilitate equity at home. How to achieve equality in your household? This film has answers. 2022-07-09T04:00:00Z This exact conflation of meat and masculinity is also soundly interwoven throughout American politics. From country music to "Kevin Can F**k Himself," the politics of pop culture's meat and potatoes man 2021-07-16T04:00:00Z They are, in any case, cool guys of a particular vintage, avatars of a salty, clean-cut, old-style masculinity that is enjoying a somewhat improbable vogue these days. ‘Ford v Ferrari’ Review: It’s a Gas 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Another way of phrasing that could be to say that Hollywood may be more willing to use women actors, but remains wedded to celebrating masculinity. There's an all-female Ghostbusters – how about a male Thelma and Louise? 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z In addition to reinforcing some unhealthy assumptions about masculinity, discussion about such matters seems to equate irrelevant physical characteristics with the capacity to be an effective leader. Stormy Daniels and Trump’s “endowment”: Why do we even care? 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z As the individually recorded voices merge and the men variously dance, sway or tear up, the reflection on aging masculinity and super fandom is both comical and moving. Is Leonard Cohen the New Secular Saint of Montreal? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Mr. Shannon imbues Mike with the same flinty masculinity that he brought to his working-class character in “Take Shelter,” minus the air of grim foreboding. Movie Review: Linda Cardellini in Liza Johnson?s Film ?Return? 2012-02-09T23:12:08Z Understood properly, the term "toxic masculinity" has some merits. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Despite having been written before the global economic recession and the ongoing so-called crisis of masculinity, “London and the South-East” may resonate more now than when it first appeared. A Cheeky Novel of Male Vulnerability Hits the U.S. at Last, Timelier Than Ever 2018-01-26T05:00:00Z "The Gambler" shows Wahlberg far from the kind of stoic masculinity he has evinced in most of his movies. Mark Wahlberg is a chance-taker; one of his biggest is 'The Gambler' 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z She has seen male friends feel compelled to live up to some impossible ideal of masculinity. ‘Driven by the Potential for Joy’: Comedies Are the Thing This Spring 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z The presence of Long, Capone, Trump and Sam’s abusive father implies bigger thoughts about American masculinity, but the book’s political and psychological ideas are not much more sophisticated than its vision of God. A 115-Year-Old War Veteran Looks Back at It All, With God as a Guide 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Nearby, a photograph casts Mntambo as a toreador — a classic Pablo Picasso role enacting grandiose masculinity. Identity transformed in the Fowler's 'Disguise: Masks and Global African Art' 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z The cuddly grandpa of extreme violence and brutal masculinity – Martin Scorsese – exec produces. Dead certs to dark horses: 20 films we think will be at Cannes in 2016 2016-03-30T04:00:00Z Such untraditional content is a survival strategy for glossies with a Y chromosome tilt in this homo novus era, where every reference to masculinity wears an implied “toxic” like a hair shirt. As Men Are Canceled, So Too Their Magazine Subscriptions 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, it presents dressing in drag as not only a wholesome but even a heroic choice: the ultimate expression of true masculinity. Lessons shoehorned into 'Kinky Boots' 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z It is impossible to downplay the concurrent influence of images and messages about masculinity embedded in our media. The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z In Crews' testimony, he said that not only did the slanted terrain for survivors coming forward motivate his own public disclosure, but it has forced him to examine "the cult of toxic masculinity." Terry Crews testifies in support of sexual assault survivors — and against toxic masculinity 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z Suggesting a man can’t possibly like having his nails done is a disappointingly reductive take on gender from Izzard, who was once so determined to tear down stereotypes about masculinity. Let’s drop the gender stereotypes – we are all non-binary 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z But recently, there’s been an explosion in the use of the phrase “toxic masculinity.” ‘Toxic’ Is Oxford’s Word of the Year. No, We’re Not Gaslighting You. 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z There it proved a stealth hit, partly for its spirited lampooning of toxic masculinity and fetishization of gun violence. Kurt Vonnegut’s Vietnam-Era Play Lands With a Gasp 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z This series takes place in the US state of Georgia, full of self-described rednecks, and the resulting conversations between differently modelled forms of masculinity are beautiful to watch. Antidepressants work – but we need to talk, too | Rhik Samadder 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z What’s meaningful is the male bag itself, which, ever evolving, has developed into a fascinating index of masculinity. | To Have and To Hold 2014-03-06T14:00:39Z What’s more, how many men have had to overcome a distorted version of masculinity that allows only a narrow, hyperbolically violent form of emotional expression? Amid calls for gender equity in Hollywood, the stakes are high. 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z In 2014, Dove Men+Care launched its “Care Makes a Man Stronger” campaign to explore the different ways men define masculinity. Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z As the years pass, Nick’s precarious masculinity erodes. A Spellbinding Debut Leaps Across Genres to Recreate the Confusion of Trauma 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It feels like Gabe is grappling with toxic masculinity right up to the end of the show. In ‘The Bisexual,’ Desiree Akhavan Grapples With All Kinds of Sexuality 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z It was more about policing masculinity and reinforcing emotional suppression in particular. "Boys & Sex" author: If you can't say no, I don't know if you can hear it 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Trump rode toxic masculinity and racial demagoguery to the White House, and he continues to embody and inflame both as a key strategy of his presidency. The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z But where Shawn labored to counteract the perceived effeminacy of dancing men, Madboots is serious about expanding the range of masculinity in dance by ignoring the supposed boundaries of gender. Review: Madboots Dance Ignores Gender Boundaries 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s also terrifying because, in its arbitrariness, it makes a kind of intuitive sense about fatherhood and masculinity and power. Why Is Being Held Accountable So Terrifying Under Patriarchy? 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z How much do current conversations about Black masculinity shape your storytelling? Why Idris Elba Chose Comedy to Tell His Most Personal Story 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z It’s reasonable under the circumstances to be particularly curious about what “Shanghai Tango,” performed by 14 dancers including Ms. Jin, has to say about masculinity and femininity. Dance Review: Jin Xing?s ?Shanghai Tango? at Joyce Theater 2012-02-01T22:22:07Z Oates’s observations about Dawn’s psychic relationship to other women and her rumination on female masculinity and athleticism are so dazzling they warrant their own novel. Joyce Carol Oates’s Novel Plumbs the Depths of America’s Abortion War 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The work that put Tero Saarinen on the international dance map more than 20 years ago was a trio that explored facets of masculinity. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z We’ve seen over the past year how deep some of these assumptions about what masculinity is, what femininity is, go, and also how painful and destructive they really can be when they don’t go questioned. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z This is also the man who conservatives claim is an “alpha male” and “tough guy” who could “bring masculinity back” to American politics. Trump’s “alpha-male” paradox: How gender bias makes his behavior seem manly, no matter what 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z Second, toxic masculinity is bad for men and boys themselves. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Again, part of my, I guess, intense fetish of masculinity. ArtsBeat: Cannes Film Festival: Nicolas Winding Refn on Being One With Ryan Gosling 2013-05-16T15:01:10Z Disruptions in the economy and changing demographics caused by neoliberalism and globalization are also contributing to this crisis in "traditional" understandings of masculinity and gender. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z But Mr. Houseago’s relationship to the dark side of masculinity — and the bright side, too, for that matter — remains fuzzily unresolved. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z What happens when we use phrases like "toxic masculinity"? What happens when we start demonizing an entire gender? Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z That is to a certain degree, part of toxic masculinity and unstable mental health. Daveed Diggs: “[Thomas] Jefferson would not f**k with Trump, period” 2018-07-20T04:00:00Z What do you think the film is saying about masculinity? "Everyone needs to find the best way to live": "Eight Mountains" stars talk friendship and choices 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z At a time when Asian American men were often portrayed as submissive, unattractive and weak, Lee with his deadly skill, six-pack abs and smoldering stare on camera, became the very image of masculinity. A new generation of Asian American artists is expanding Bruce Lee’s legacy 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z Ms. Goldman was drawn to Kid Creole because — as Mr. Darnell’s alias suggests — within the danceable, tropical-treat songs were also thoughts on a post-racial culture and on the paradoxes of masculinity. Dapper as Ever, Kid Creole Dresses Up His Songs for a New Musical 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z I no longer have an attitude towards masculinity. Me and my penis: 100 men reveal all 2017-05-27T04:00:00Z Metaphorically, it’s a terrific embodiment of what is repressed in modern masculinity. Art Review: Thomas Houseago’s Outsize Sculptures at Storm King 2013-08-01T22:25:24Z I walk by his old address on the morning when, spurred by a yearning for traditional masculinity, I decide to attempt a manual shave for the first time. What My Father Gave Me 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z Toxic masculinity is a contentious issue and some consider it to encompass traits which contribute to the dominance and brilliance of some men. Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: what is behind the detective’s appeal? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z Salon's review deems the movie best "when its characters are on horseback" and addreses "issues of Black masculinity, as well as racism and discrimination." Anna Kendrick in space! Idris Elba on a horse! Here's what new on Netflix in April 2021-04-03T04:00:00Z This version of masculinity is seen as "toxic" for two reasons. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z “If we don’t talk about gender dynamics, about masculinity, if we only talk about specific moments of intervention, it’s like if you were to talk about incidents of racism without talking about race.” Why did no one speak out about Harvey Weinstein? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The study of gender — especially masculinity — as a social construct is "radical" because it challenges the entrenched belief that “boys will be boys.” "Boys will be boys" limits all genders: We need a radical shift in how we raise boys 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z We discussed masculinity itself — what it meant to be a black man. ‘Barber Shop Chronicles’ Gives Black Men Control of Their Story 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z “Toxic masculinity”: if any one term has graduated, through the tumult of 2016, from specialized social-justice parlance to mainstream media ubiquity, it’s this one. Nocturnal Animals caps off Hollywood's year of toxic masculinity 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z As for the nature of masculinity, the sociologist and author Michael Kimmel has spent his entire career looking into men. Why Michael Ian Black Doesn’t Like Mystery Novels 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z It’s an authentic expression of a certain kind of tortured American masculinity. Books of The Times: ?West by West? by Jerry West and Jonathan Coleman ? Review 2011-11-01T22:56:20Z Man is saying through image and ink that he can define his own masculinity, rather than let it define him. The Trans Actors Challenging Outmoded Ideas of Masculinity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Smith’s delightful evocation of the weird and his ongoing exploration of masculinity show up in this novel, too. Kids Searching for the Complicated Truth 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z The Alpha Male certainly reigned in the 9/11 aftermath, but there’s a hunger now for a masculinity that is thoughtful and measured. Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z In that show he pinballed around an eclectic range of images referring to black masculinity and added an autobiographical spin. James Baldwin: Pessimist, Optimist, Hero 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z I am writing a book on the fictional strategies employed in late 19th-century British speculative narratives to creatively revive patriarchal masculinity. Boys and men in the age of Trump: How the president is affecting our understanding of masculinity 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z Stelter, who occasionally bantered on social media in years past with Bongino, says the former Secret Service agent is engaging in “performative masculinity” to appeal to a largely White, male audience. Dan Bongino isn’t just taking over where Rush Limbaugh left off — he’s building a conservative media universe 2021-04-19T04:00:00Z I'm constantly thinking about masculinity and its role in mother and son relationships, and then how that translates into the way we as men interact with women in general. "Don't bite your tongue for no one": Tupac's mom, Afeni Shakur, taught him how to rebel and prevail 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Whether they're jihadists or neo-Nazis or the old established white supremacists like David Duke or the more contemporary skinheads, they are all searching for a kind of communal validation of masculinity. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z I try to create a balance of masculinity and femininity in my clothes. Simone Rocha on the Importance of Comfortable Shoes 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z An abiding critique of the show is its portrayal of violent masculinity. Steven Knight Isn’t Ready for ‘Peaky Blinders’ to End 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Society continues to see masculinity in female children as a strength and femininity in male children as a weakness. My son is getting an American Girl Doll for Christmas 2013-12-25T12:45:00Z Part of the problem may stem from the fact that it’s difficult to pin down an exact definition of toxic masculinity. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z His getup is part of this "new" masculinity and comments on it all the time, which is why it might be unfair to dismiss him as "all about the look"... Forget Edinburgh's funniest joke award. Have you heard the one about the Amused Moose? 2012-08-21T16:10:27Z Being born to a sports-obsessed father who fiercely defended traditional gender roles and ideas of masculinity afforded me no choice in either. My education in toxic masculinity: Fist fights, bullying, and the strange glory of MMA 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z For men, being caught in clothes they don’t own could threaten those projections, and their masculinity. Real Men Don’t Rent 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z “Gutterplum,” which runs for two more performances Saturday at Union Hall in Brooklyn, can seem like a companion piece to “Nate,” which sends up unhinged femininity instead of toxic masculinity. Make Way for the Carnal Clowns of Stand-Up 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z It's a form of black comic realism that works better when the misfortune befalling his characters seems the product of a sensibility that is tragic, rather than masculinity wounded into crankishness. The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski's films 2012-12-28T22:55:16Z It describes the alienation of men in post-modern time, where we as men built this idea of what masculinity is. "It's been a life-changing experience for me": How a play about drinking helped Andre Royo get sober 2023-06-25T04:00:00Z Under this paradigm, women’s bodies are a means to an end for men, whether that end is physical gratification, validation of their masculinity, or both. Violent young men, sex and the conversation we should be having now 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z Modern masculinity is not a role per se; it is more a patchwork of disparate talents, specialist knowledge, non-lateral thinking and a handy lack of people skills. Tim Dowling's guide to long-term love 2014-05-17T04:00:00Z The idea is almost too obvious to warrant explanation: Competitive masculinity and death are connected. Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “It gave me a sense of the sensuality of the film, the erotic nature of certain aspects of the character, his masculinity tinged with the otherworldly look of a satyr,” he said. Benedict Cumberbatch and the Monsters Among Us 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Playing in Cannes' Critics' Week competition, the movie has garnered strong reviews for its exploration of guilt, masculinity and mythology. Seen and heard at the Cannes Film Festival 2013-05-19T14:15:12Z At once tender and pitiless towards the contradictions of traditional Italian masculinity, I Vitelloni was a major influence on the young Martin Scorsese. Europe in 25 films: the critics’ choice 2019-02-10T05:00:00Z The picture is action-packed but mindlessly so, and it’s neither light enough to work as a coltish entertainment nor smart enough to cut beyond anything but the most rote notions of masculinity. Once Cool Magnificent Seven Now a Middling Septet 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z It’s not surprising then that even though these films are more likely to star women — and be associated with femininity — they still tend to reinforce dominant ideals of masculinity. Donald Trump in “La La Land”: Retro romance is seductive — and encourages a yearning for a less beautiful past 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z That spoke to a larger idea of Black masculinity in general. "You have a religious devotion to this sport": Director on bodybuilding movie "Magazine Dreams" 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The men continually ribbed one another — about masculinity and looks, mostly — though their teasing was nowhere near as ruthless as it is in "Whiplash." 'Whiplash' director, stars march to a friendly beat — off-screen 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z But Real points out what should be obvious: that boys “do not need to be turned into males. They are males. Boys do not need to develop their masculinity.” The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z According to the information provided, it’s a “satire of masculinity and the monument.” The Hudson Valley’s outdoor art parks make for an alluring pandemic destination 2021-04-22T04:00:00Z A meandering exploration of cultural identity, masculinity and individual choice from German film-maker Valeska Grisebach in which a group of German construction workers are sent to build a hydroelectric plant in rural Bulgaria. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z I feel that masculinity is being demonized and that sex is being demonized, that physical touch is viewed with inordinate suspicion. Mary Gaitskill on the Power of Fiction for Examining #MeToo 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps the moviemakers were trying to say something about masculinity and its discontents with this detour, something about castrating fathers and flaccid sons. | 'Peep World': Things Fall Apart When a Family Gets Together 2011-03-24T21:13:04Z What would a healthy version of masculinity consist of? After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Others were simply interested in what the heck a workshop on “masculinities” might entail. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z The women were asked to rate the man on various attributes, like personality, masculinity and date-ability. Women find single men with cats less attractive, new study suggests 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Dads are shaping modern conversations about masculinity and men’s mental health, and they are determining the collective lessons for the future, for their children, for their sons. Why fathers must talk about their mental health 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z In the Atlantic, writer Tom Nichols asked, “Why don’t the president’s supporters hold him to their own standard of masculinity?” Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z A very funny book about conspiracy theories, masculinity and the internet. Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blobs 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z For them, femininity and masculinity are facets of characterization. Stars and Stripes (and Trocks) Forever 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z The music of “Prayer Song” hovers with electric-piano chords and wordless backup voices; the lyrics are a kaleidoscopic, free-associative vision of Los Angeles, touching on lust, violence, gentrification, plastic surgery, masculinity, conspicuous consumption and religion. On Her Debut Album, Noname Is a Sly Hip-Hop Maverick 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z For “Anger,” which was seen at the Humana Festival in Louisville last year, aspires to more than caricatures of dangerously devolved masculinity. Review: ‘Do You Feel Anger’ Plumbs the Depths of Office Humor 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z But that really doesn’t matter, because it’s precisely when Hepburn plays “Sylvester” that she gets to play with that tiny bit of masculinity that has always flickered at her edges. Top 10 Cross-Dressing Movie Performances 2011-11-11T06:42:07Z Ravenous, even destructively toxic masculinity is hardly a new theme in Anderson’s oeuvre. How Phantom Thread undresses our ideas about toxic masculinity 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z Mary Poppins would not tolerate the histrionics of a fragile toxic masculinity raging against the notion that sometimes, one must be held accountable for one’s actions. Mary Poppins can’t return fast enough: An adult in the room is the best fantasy of 2018 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z He had this moral standard of masculinity, this Victorian sense of decorum. Meet the magician behind Sherlock Holmes 2011-11-13T04:57:31Z I guess the answer is for people who want a broader, arguably healthier definition of masculinity than Candace Owens'. Candace Owens' attack on Harry Styles' masculinity reveals itself in that Marxist red herring 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z How would you define masculinity in this role? Six Stars of the New ‘West Side Story’ Discuss Its Enduring Relevance 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z I'm curious to get your thoughts on the issues of masculinity in "Heroic." "It is a civil war": "Heroic" director on how the Mexican military makes ordinary men into killers 2023-01-20T05:00:00Z In fact, she said, they often preach an extreme, singular definition of masculinity — at a time developmentally when boys are grappling uneasily with identity. 2010-01-30T04:45:00Z If my beard is a trend-inspired attempt to reclaim a semblance of masculinity in a world gone mad then so be it. Confessions of a Lumbersexual 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The memoir recounts Gomez’s life growing up queer in the literal arena of compulsory masculinity: The opening chapter takes place in his uncle’s cockfighting ring in Nicaragua. What Does It Mean to Be a ‘High-Risk Homosexual’? 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “The masculinity they exude is positively intoxicating,” she offers. Perspective | Wolfie James and the insidious role of female white nationalists 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z The capacity to become a ruthless, cold, calculating, violent person is the measure not only of masculinity but of femininity as well. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z It’s done masculinity a disservice because men try to live up to that expectation of hero, and they can’t be that all the time and forever. Is "Jirga" a white savior movie about Afghanistan? "We have a lot to feel guilty about" 2019-07-26T04:00:00Z The prolific film scholar and critic Thomson blends memoir and history to explore the multifaceted connections between film, masculinity, femininity and modern erotic life. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z And definitions of masculinity, a sharp undercurrent in the show, have expanded considerably. Review: ‘Falsettos,’ a Perfect Musical, an Imperfect Family 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z It was the day after the masculinities conference, and he’d gathered a group of men for an informal salon. A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z But the actors said they saw in the work classic themes the director has explored in westerns and other movies — masculinity, loyalty, the unique plight of the outsider. Clint Eastwood brings classic themes to the feel-good 'Jersey Boys' 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z “A scarringly brilliant anatomy of white South African masculinity,” Guy Lodge wrote in Variety upon the film’s premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. From a South African Slur to a Scathing Drama About Toxic Masculinity 2021-04-07T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, there is plenty to enjoy in this superbly acted piece's exploration of black masculinity. Blackta – review 2012-11-06T17:52:00Z Part of that myth points to a darker side of Hemingway — malignant competitiveness, callous anti-Semitism, and a volcanic temper — that often overshadows his work and makes him the poster boy for toxic masculinity. What Hemingway Left in Sloppy Joe’s Bar 80 Years Ago 2022-09-21T04:00:00Z So, I consulted the small Bible of toxic masculinity inside of me and decided to confront Kavon. We grew up afraid to be vulnerable: "Minding the Gap" helped me see my toxic boyhood masculinity 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z But by the end of “Carmen,” his quiet ferocity — a homicidal explosion of what we’d now call toxic masculinity — was chilling. Review: ‘Aida’ Gives a Taste of the Met Opera’s Bad Old Days 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z The power of leather is on view everywhere this season, giving a stamp of masculinity even when it is just a pocket flap. Fashion Review: Comme des Gar?ons and Dries Van Noten Offer a Hint of Victoriana 2012-01-20T18:50:37Z My masculinity was not somehow restored when Anna got pregnant. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z I was at the embodied masculinity experience to do this properly. What I learned at man camp, where men get in touch with their emotions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z This “real man”, as defined by the Man Box, represents what is supposedly normative and acceptable within the tightly controlled performance of American male masculinity. Why men have so much trouble making friends 2014-04-12T16:00:00Z With Mythic Quest he has crafted another sharp, funny show that asks pertinent questions about these trying times, and which explores the positive aspects of masculinity along with those clearly toxic ones. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z So with all the hoo-ha surrounding their identity, are our ideas of masculinity, even down to what men should sound like, too limited? Rhye: the sounds of seduction 2013-04-13T05:00:00Z That search for authentic masculinity is a weighty preoccupation of “The Spark and the Drive.” ‘The Spark and the Drive,’ by Wayne Harrison OK: have action heroes had a crisis of masculinity lately? Aaron Eckhart: 'You're giving me a heart attack' 2013-04-11T17:34:07Z Like Sita, I will express my anger and call out the horrors and toxic masculinity underpinning the ideas of statehood in India today. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z The photographer Jesse Burke’s work often centers on the good ol’ American rituals of masculinity — like shotgunning beers, hunting and chopping wood. | A Photographer’s Tender Exploration of Fatherhood 2014-04-24T17:39:30Z The exhibition is a departure for Tam, 40, whose art often captures the awkward interactions between masculinity and fragility found at social gatherings like college frat parties. The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z “The main reason is masculinity, the way men see themselves, and the way society sees men,” Bävman said. What would parenting be like if fathers took six months of parental leave? Take a look. 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z His meditation on modern masculinity was released in 1990, and spent more than two years on the New York Times bestseller list. Prominent Minnesota poet, writer Robert Bly dies at 95 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z His willingness to embrace a comedy of whiny masculinity and Napoleon complexes propelled him to major success; he has since made odd-couple capers and slightly edgy comedies. “Irresponsible,” Reviewed: Kevin Hart’s Family Values 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z The work that put Tero Saarinen on the international dance map more than 20 years ago was a trio exploring facets of masculinity. 10 Things to Do in NYC Now 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z She later played the recordings for the female volunteers, and asked them to rate the voices in regards to masculinity and attractiveness. 5 wild things science teaches us about sex 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z After years of playing variations on a theme of Black masculinity, Williams gave one of his most haunted and nuanced performances in this pulpy, allegorical horror series. Where to Stream Michael K. Williams’s Best TV Performances 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “I consciously learned and performed my race,” he writes, “like a teacher’s pet in an advanced placement course on black masculinity.” How Moving to France and Having Children Led a Black American to Rethink Race 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z Rather, the source of his masculinity is that he fights these 21st-century expectations with every bone in his body. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z To me they really question masculinity standards, particularly Black masculinity standards, which, with Gregory, I try to dismantle as many of those as I can. Tyler James Williams Lifts His Spirits With bell hooks and Tom Ford 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z Unsparing in its critique of domestic violence and toxic masculinity, yet tender in its treatment of various human weaknesses, the novel underscores Black women’s need for self-regard and mutual care. A must-read list: The enduring contributions of African American women writers 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z The quiet candor with which Hannam addresses issues of masculinity, and how it intersects with an Indigenous and queer identity, elevates this otherwise conventional story. ‘Wildhood’ Review: On the Road, Sorting Out Growing Up 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Other performers — including a white man, a stand-in for the kind of white masculinity Rankine describes — recur throughout, playing basketball at an outside court, laughing at a party or swimming in a public pool. Review: A Poet’s Urgent Questions Fuel ‘November’ 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z Intelligence and masculinity are highly fraught in our culture. Coyotes, the Ultimate American Tricksters 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z I don't want to use the phrase toxic masculinity. Rainn Wilson doesn't hold back: "Here's the guy from 'The Office' talking about suffering and death" 2023-05-26T04:00:00Z A guilt-free way to ironically savour a masculinity now denounced and mocked; a roaring splurge of outlawed hormone. Russell Kane on The Expendables 2 and post-masculinist cinema 2012-08-03T23:06:00Z Carlos Andres Gomez, a New York City-born poet, writer and performer said that growing up he felt constrained by the strict interpretation of masculinity which dictated that all men should be strong and unemotional. One man's mission to fight patriarchy with poetry 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z Are there aspects of masculinity in this political and social moment in the United States and abroad that you are hopeful about? After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z It looks at masculinity through the point of view of Saul, a young historian who sneers at “authoritarian old men” like his father. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “I still carry all the baggage about masculinity and toughness, and I was ashamed about my depression and eating disorder.” Christopher Eccleston: ‘I really felt that I was going to die’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z In Bock's intelligent and open-minded rendering, the old assumptions about masculinity and femininity no longer apply. Lily Knight sets 'A Small Fire' aglow with her performance 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z “Everything’s changed: The economy’s fallen apart, and the ideas of masculinity have been turned upside down, and they act out and they create political mischief.” Risking Boos, the Met Opera Puts Present-Day America Onstage 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z Round up the usual suspects, the public cried, as Hollywood promised to clean all the sexual harassers, bullies and general examples of toxic masculinity out of its closet. Bryan Singer joins Kevin Spacey and the rest of sleazy Hollywood’s usual suspects 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s a masculinity so fragile, toxic and entitled that it would rather kill and die than endure a perceived insult. In Paradise, ‘Men Can’t Control Themselves’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Believing that the feminist rejection of "macho" masculinity left the nation in peril, conservative white evangelicals promoted a testosterone-fueled vision of Christian manhood. From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Reveling in abundant displays of toxic masculinity and pumped-up posing, the Australian biker drama “Outlaws” is a punishing watch — more so when you can decipher the dialogue. ‘Outlaws’ Review: Uneasy Riders. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z The story in “The Lighthouse” is thin enough to invite plentiful interpretations about masculinity, homosocial relations and desire, even if its more suggestive theme is Wake’s punishing exploitation of Winslow. ‘The Lighthouse’ Review: Dark Nights, Troubled Souls, Hairy Men 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z Toy and BB gun sales are “a red-state phenomenon now,” says Cross, who sees a simultaneous decline in hunting culture and in “these old concepts of masculinity.” Bang: The troubled legacy of toy guns 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z My boyfriend — he's a reporter — and he was like, "Do you think the fact that you were raised by a single dad . . . Do you think that affects your concept of masculinity or femininity?" "That is the David Carr way": Erin Lee Carr on writing fearlessly on grief, addiction and her father 2019-04-20T04:00:00Z Johnny Depp’s second appearance on this list proves both his versatility and comfort in his masculinity. Top 10 Cross-Dressing Movie Performances 2011-11-11T06:42:07Z At times his wounded masculinity borders on the pathetic, particularly when he bickers with Maya, who exudes the infinite patience that only comes with a long, loving companionship. ‘Africa’ Review: Aging and its Discontents 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z McBride and I talked a lot about masculinity, about fathers and sons. Danny McBride Keeps It Righteous 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z “Bobby’s Place” is a nightmare predicated on the fear of a man losing his masculinity, even for just a moment. Louie does gender performance, pegging, and contemplates being a woman 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z Before he leaves, he will pick up other important lessons in masculinity, but taught by a woman. This 'Dogfight' changes a Marine's life 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z "And I have to say that was a show of toxic masculinity…you don't act out in violence. That was not a show of love, that's a show of violence." "The View" hosts side with Chris Rock after on-air Oscars slap: "Comedians are in danger everywhere" 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z The work refers to Norsworthy’s feeling of constantly being asked to perform — to perform blackness, or queerness, or masculinity, or membership in the bourgeoisie. Telling Stories of Black Life Rescued Him 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z Electrogynous Multimedia exploration of femininity, masculinity and blackness; part of the LAX Festival. The week ahead in L.A. dance, Oct. 15-22: Akram Khan Company, Invertigo Dance Theatre and more 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z Set against all those very modern versions of adolescent masculinity, Hopper comes off as — much as one hates to slap him with this label — toxic. "Stranger Things 3" gives us a meaner Hopper, and we're not loving it 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z His voice features their casual masculinity, and he delivers a hummable tune with their laid-back ease. Review: Corbin aims for escapism on latest album 2012-09-17T16:46:04Z He struggled with what was perceived as masculinity. The 6 most disturbing John Wayne Gacy moments from Netflix's "Conversations with a Killer" 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z To be clear, this an Australian made series, which also set down under, features a brand of masculinity that, well, not great. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z What the present moment seems to signify is the emergence of a fresh, unrestricted image of African gender and masculinity that rejects the dominant masculine ideal of toughness, even in a hostile world. Cape Town’s New Masculinity 2018-04-14T04:00:00Z “This is the president of the United States proving his masculinity.” A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z With addiction, with masculinity, I’ve found freedom in naming the thing that once imprisoned me. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Davis, who is transgender, brings an intensified lens to a story that deals with ideas of masculinity and a budding romance between two college players. Olney’s smashmouth drama ‘Colossal’ tackles football, disability and sexuality Whereas, really, it's just about that man's image, his own personal self-image and how he deals with his own toxic masculinity and not what his partner does, because otherwise we are all in danger. "This was premeditated": Netflix's "American Murder" shows toxic masculinity at its deadliest 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z “Our study supports the view that hegemonic masculinity is a learned set of beliefs and suggests that early to middle adolescence is a critical development time frame for learning masculinity,” the researchers conclude. Young Men Want Intimacy Too 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Is extreme masculinity a curse or a benefit? What Happens When Nashville Outsiders Become Country’s Big Stars? 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z This is most disappointingly seen here in the cartoons’ costuming for its male characters: Rococo’s flamboyance was toned down so as not to alienate American concepts of masculinity. Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z In 2017, Kimmel’s new center is slated to start offering a master’s degree in masculinity studies, the first he knows of in the world. Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z When I read the script, I was very moved by their relationship and this nuanced portrayal of masculinity. Raúl Castillo Can Empathize With Ambivalence 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z Mr. Binder was also impressed by Mr. Beltrão’s mix of styles and his vigorous deconstruction of masculinity. ‘Brazil Is Burning, and We’re Just Performing a Lot of Abstract Gestures’ 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z This in turn sets them and society up for unhealthy, violent forms of masculinity. 'We Must Look at How We Teach Our Boys What It Means to Be a Man' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z The series also excels in denouncing a culture of toxic masculinity that takes its toll on women. How "Euphoria" challenges viewers’ expectations of what a television show should be 2022-04-18T04:00:00Z That much seems evident from this year’s male crisis movies, even if men often appear most interested in working on their issues and their feelings in stories about masculinity. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z His anger and the huge amount of masculinity and raw power he exhibits even though he’s in this slightly effeminate pink suit, is an illustration of that I think. The Carpetbagger: Clothes and Character: ‘The Great Gatsby’ 2013-12-31T19:00:37Z Clearly, “I Am the Night” works some of the same territory as “True Detective”: the haunted masculinity, the Freudian hogwash, the personal demons of sleuths, the gratuitous invocations of the occult. The Straightforward Trashiness of “I Am the Night” 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z He was 5 foot 3 and wanted so much to be bigger, equating masculinity with heft — which is why he was also a dedicated body builder. Loren Cameron, 63, Dies; His Camera Brought Transgender Men to Light 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z But the show also really takes on very, very big, very, very serious issues about family and about being different and about sex and about masculinity. Nasim Pedrad finds her inner boy as "Chad": "It’s such a universal notion to just want to belong" 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z What would normally be a story about revenge instead becomes one about the toxic masculinity and homophobia that plague the Black community. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay Black ‘Hamlet’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z This seemed like the perfect opportunity to rethink my version of masculinity. What I learned at man camp, where men get in touch with their emotions 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z “It would be refreshing to see fewer programmes which fetishise violence against women and promote a toxic version of masculinity, and be offered more which challenges gender stereotypes and shifts social norms.” Phoebe Waller-Bridge 'empowered' to see violent women on TV 2019-03-10T05:00:00Z “Today, in the United States, factories are associated with masculinity,” Freeman writes, “but in their early days they were spaces largely occupied by women and children.” In ‘Behemoth,’ Manufacturing Still Looms Large 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z He helped the show expand TV's definition of masculinity. Critics predict Emmy nods for "Good Wife", "Glee" 2010-06-16T06:46:00Z According to the American Psychological Association, “masculinity ideology” is a certain set of descriptive, prescriptive, and small-minded perceptions about boys and men. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The book attempts to articulate how essential and inextricable performance is to masculinity, and how surreal — and sometimes dangerous, for us and for the people we encounter — that can be. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z As the fashion commentator Simon Doonan argues in the film, International Male documented — and reinvented — gay and straight men’s shared fetishization of masculinity. ‘All Man’ Review: International Male, a Wishbook on Many Levels 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z There’s subtext to that assertion, too: Cakes Da Killa is gay, and is rewriting narratives about hip-hop masculinity as he goes. New Releases by Rae Sremmurd, Becky G, Cakes Da Killa 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z I also want to talk about the depiction of masculinity in the film. "Wildhood" is a Two-Spirit liberation: "I’m done with Indigenous and queer characters that are sad" 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Trapped into a traditional masculinity that values above all, as Walter itemises, "financial security, independence, and self-respect", Mr Bridge doesn't seem like an oppressor. Lionel Shriver: rereading Mr Bridge by Evan S Connell 2013-02-15T18:30:01Z Perry takes a wide-angle view of masculinity, drawing his examples from many sources. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The real problem with remarks like Martin’s boneheaded comments is that they, and blatant homophobia, exist on a continuum that’s all about setting rules for masculinity and punishing anyone who’s outside them. Twimmolation Alert: Roland Martin Gets His Ascot in Hot Water at CNN 2012-02-09T13:56:57Z “It is Jonathan taking aim at toxic white male masculinity, in a satirical way,” Ms. Tepper said. Beyond ‘Rent’: 4 Glimpses of the Unheard Jonathan Larson 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z “It’s necessary for people to see multiple versions of masculinity.” The Trans Actors Challenging Outmoded Ideas of Masculinity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z So, of course, certain outraged male viewers took to Twitter to vent their own toxic masculinity in solidarity with the biker dude and his bruised hand. "Captain Marvel" triggers fanboys with extended "what, no smile?" scene, proving its point 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z It would have been easy for Bailey, 46, to impugn my masculinity. The Saturday interview: Bill Bailey ? 'It's genius, evil genius' 2010-12-18T00:16:00Z But there are people out there who — I guess because of their own fragile masculinity, their own fragile sense of whiteness — believe that “I just can’t say what I want to say anymore.” “There was a market for white resentment”: Tim Wise on Trump, David Duke and the bigotry that risen from the shadows 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z “This year we saw a frightening display of how toxic masculinity turns into cruelty towards women and children,” Hall said. At Oscars, Florida’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill target of joke 2022-03-27T04:00:00Z But I can’t help but wonder whether there’s a branch of Trump supporters for whom the new primary characteristic of masculinity is resentment. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Daisy is “a woman in this man’s world, so I really wanted to mix masculinity with femininity for her,” Ms. Hoffman said. Tarantino’s Law: The Script Dictates the Costumes 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z Had I always known that I was giving up pieces of myself, grabbing at pieces of masculinity and men? Screw the sisterhood! I’d rather screw your boyfriend 2019-03-02T05:00:00Z But everything it has to say about class, masculinity and the tricky relations among different kinds of people in a proudly diverse and liberal metropolis is embedded in details of character and place. Movie Review: ‘Fruitvale Station’ Is Based on the Story of Oscar Grant III 2013-07-11T20:41:12Z “Why is it that we demand that our culture complicate masculinity, but we ask trans people to simplify?” he says. Review: A Transgender Choreographer Takes on Machismo 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z Toxic masculinity thus contributes to gender inequalities that disadvantage women and privilege men. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Stable employment is deeply entwined with images of masculinity. Love in the time of layoffs 2012-08-03T20:12:00Z As an exploration of masculinity and its discontents, “Ad Astra,” set in a credible near future, plays very much like a thematic, somewhat obsessive bookend to “The Lost City of Z.” ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z The Charger: delusional masculinity's reward for having to put the toilet seat down. 2010-02-08T13:08:00Z The game went on, the fans cheered, masculinity did not shrivel up and die. The Super Bowl was a win for feminism 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z Especially in that film, they’re in conversation with masculinity, and what it is. Some Like It Not: Are Men in Dresses Still Funny? 2022-09-09T04:00:00Z The idea of masculinity these movies project is troubling, to say the least — which is doubly weird because Willis in his prime was not your typical pumped-up action hero. The Bruce Willis Journey From In Demand to On Demand 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z The people in that room are witnessing his masculinity shift from shield to sponge. Jerrod Carmichael Knows How to Wear the Truth 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Topcoat may be strong, but masculinity is fragile. Man-icures: How male celebrities are popularizing painted, polished nails 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z But in my research on evangelical masculinity, I have found that Trump's leadership style aligns closely with a rugged ideal of Christian manhood championed by evangelicals for more than half a century. From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z Her takes on the cliches of rugged masculinity are amusing, but a bit meek. Very well hung: the ICA's Keep Your Timber Limber exhibition 2013-06-19T06:30:03Z In terms of the masculinity thing, they all have different takes on it, but the most interesting story for me is James Hart who changes his name. In "The Other Fellow," real people named James Bond reveal the blessing and curse of the 007 moniker 2023-02-18T05:00:00Z Sure, the mafia may have a stricter definition of masculinity than the rest of society. There’s a new macho sex boast 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z “Someone Else Besides You” is a father-son story that excavates basic questions of masculinity, told by the son, who “was thirty-three, but my father didn’t think anyone was a man until he fathered children.” In Viet Thanh Nguyen's 'The Refugees,' wistfulness is an anthem of displacement 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z An image of Harry Styles wearing a periwinkle Gucci gown with a slim black blazer is going to single-handedly dismantle good ol' rugged American masculinity. Candace Owens' attack on Harry Styles' masculinity reveals itself in that Marxist red herring 2020-11-17T05:00:00Z And they found few picture books about toxic masculinity, according to London, who is a sophomore at Anacostia High School. Teen authors encourage boys to express their hurt feelings 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Outdoorsy tales like this, from Hemingway’s early Michigan stories to James Dickey’s “Deliverance” on down, typically use woods and waterways as proving grounds for masculinity. Review | ‘Raft of Stars’ takes a cue from Hemingway, then puts a less macho spin on the adventure tale 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Simmons chatted with Salon about his films, masculinity, fatherhood and his poker skills. J.K. Simmons’ strong silent types: “Some, because of their own upbringing, or pain or self-consciousness, have a difficult time letting it out” 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Russell’s tough masculinity, which has been a constant throughout his career, was used to its full potential in a role that was unfairly overlooked when it came to awards. Kurt Russell: five best moments 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z “To be able to have that comfort wearing something that’s considered to be feminine,” he said, “that shows masculinity to me.” The Boys in Their Summer Dresses 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z The boys’ early masculinity strained against the rules and sterility of Bagnacavello. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z The remaining chapters focus on men who together paint a grim, at times pathological picture of masculinity that the movie doesn’t engage with or doesn’t recognize. ‘Only the Animals’ Review: A Missing Woman, a Cruel World 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z He has no fear that using them may somehow put a dent in his masculinity. Should Grown Men Use Emoji? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The painting plays with the aesthetics of race, power, and masculinity, as does much of Wiley’s work. “Empire”: TV’s Contemporary-Art Gallery 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z Hers was one of several female voices to temper the band’s masculinity, her soulful alto complementary to Berninger’s baritone. Matt Berninger, king of melancholy music, is doing just fine 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z T’s spring men’s fashion issue looks at the changing face of masculinity in 2014. | Spring Men’s Fashion Issue 2014-03-08T03:00:06Z I was thinking a lot about the way black men are written about and described, how we become hooded figures and this very particular assumption of masculinity. Saeed Jones: "No One Is Safe" In These Poems 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z Today, this is relevant more than ever, since Indian politics has been taken over by toxic masculinity. How I choose to celebrate Diwali as a feminist 2023-11-11T05:00:00Z And might I put in a word for the prickly comic abrasiveness of Tracy Letts’s “Linda Vista,” a lacerating anatomy of toxic masculinity disguised as brooding charm? Who Says You Can’t Give Tony Awards in an Abbreviated Season? 2020-03-31T04:00:00Z Even within those representations we see, there is still often a more “acceptable” definition of what a gay man is seen as by society, in terms of either masculinity or femininity. Moonlight's Tarell Alvin McCraney: 'I never had a coming out moment' 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z “One activity one night isn't going to change the behavior of men from one day to the next and their idea of masculinity,” said Saldana. Colombian women to party away as men face curfew night 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z I also imagined that joining a sports team might give me an appealing air of masculinity, and, having spent most of my childhood doing theater, I’ve always wondered what that might look like. On boys and balls: How I learned to stop hating sports 2014-05-12T23:00:00Z Mazino said Paul looks at the toxic masculinity of his brother and cousin and tries to forge a different path. For Asian American Actors, Playing a Hot Mess Is Liberating 2023-07-06T04:00:00Z And there are few authors as associated with masculinity — literary, toxic or otherwise — than the writer who loved it when you called him Papa. Review: ‘Hemingway’ Is a Big Two-Hearted Reconsideration 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z Initially, the film looks set to be a study of Trelkovsky's tentative masculinity. The dazed brutality at the heart of Roman Polanski's films 2012-12-28T22:55:16Z I talked to men who inhabited masculinities far different than mine. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z That initial conversation led to other conversations, first with my wife, who had so much to teach and show me about masculinity that I wondered why I’d waited so long to ask her about it. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Playing such original, sensitive, vulnerable characters not only expanded our universe of Black masculinity but also bled into Williams’s own life, making it hard for him to separate the craft from its creator. Michael K. Williams Brought His Whole Life to His Characters 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z He's got the bringing back of melody, you got the tolerability of masculinity, you got all that, and I think Drake is an enormously influential and productive figure who deserves to be executively critiqued. Cancel culture is emulated from “an ethic of white supremacy,” says Jay-Z scholar 2019-12-07T05:00:00Z It’s all part of Mr. Tyler’s air of indestructibility, of untethered masculinity, dulled just enough by age to seem harmless. Arts & Leisure Preview: Steven Tyler Escapes From Idolatry 2011-02-09T16:50:05Z And when you're doing this kind of minimalistic riff on masculinity, to see this person with his daughter is really fun, it’s just exciting. Tough scenes, rocky starts: Six TV drama actors dish 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z But Ryan’s engrossing performance asks the viewer to contemplate what we value in masculinity, and the truth behind those values. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Malaolu uses bold movement to mirror the emotional psychology of masculinity, mental health, stigma and the wider community. Brotherhood, love and vulnerability: Lanre Malaolu on filming The Circle 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Can you talk about the themes of masculinity and weakness? "It's time for change": New Orleans' Big Freedia on working against gun violence in new documentary 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z Best depiction of Rooster Cogburn firing two guns with a strap in his mouth on the back of a galloping horse 1969: This image is a testament to masculinity at its rawest. True Grit trailer shootout: John Wayne v the Coen brothers 2010-10-06T09:08:00Z It was a limiting view of men’s work, but it was one that also appears frequently in my inbox, usually after I’ve written anything about masculinity. Perspective | Andrew Luck surrendered to his pain. It was a daring thing for a man to admit — but it shouldn’t be. 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z Durden’s response to his disillusionment with contemporary masculinity is to embrace a seductive, violent, and supposedly more genuine idea of “real” manliness—but that alternative turns out to be a disastrous illusion. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z Winstone's instinct for the humanity buried inside the most brutalised masculinity was astonishing to witness. 'I used to be a raving lunatic' 2010-09-02T20:00:00Z Think: dude food without the crisis of masculinity. It’s poké, man: the ultimate hipster-food glossary 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z The more men cling to rigid views of masculinity, the more likely they are to be depressed, or disdainful, or lonely. Perspective | How ‘traditional masculinity’ hurts the men who believe in it most 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z From this encounter, the film spins out into a romp through the muddle of 1950s masculinity. ‘Please Baby Please’ Review: Hyper-Masculinity, on Its Head 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z When the movie is focused on Jacky’s desperate and futile efforts to be a superman, it becomes a stark tragedy of masculinity and its chemical boundaries. Movie Review: ?Bullhead,? Directed by Michael R. Roskam 2012-02-16T23:52:20Z Femininity can be equally as toxic as masculinity — in a more subtle way that isn't as cunning as the overt patriarchal dominance in this society. We're long overdue to rethink pink: It's time to move away from gendered baby clothes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z A guy’s sense of his masculinity, especially in the sexual realm, is not about what he experienced himself; he gets his sense of masculinity through the eyes of his partner. Wait, men fake orgasms? 2013-04-13T22:00:00Z In his delightful first story collection, the author of the National Book Award-winning novel “The Good Lord Bird” continues to explore race, masculinity, music and history. 100 Notable Books of 2017 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z In the 1980s American cinema was dominated by the logic of the blockbuster and cartoons of masculinity so uncomplicated they were known by their first names: Arnold, Sly, Bruce and Mel. Film: The Dude Plumbs His Weary Soul 2010-02-26T23:03:00Z Do you think our perception of masculinity is limited in pop culture right now? Stranger Things’ David Harbour on Playing a New Leading Man 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z In later seasons the show softened but the central concern of a man whose masculinity is under assault because he is surrounded by women speaks to this moment in our popular culture. Confessions of a Lumbersexual 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z Toxic masculinity is represented by qualities such as violence, dominance, emotional illiteracy, sexual entitlement, and hostility to femininity. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z How have we come to this point where sexual violence against women is a common — and seemingly accepted — trait of masculinity? Stanford swimmer attacker isn’t alone: Sexual violence against women prevalent in university sports cultures 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z But there is certain masculinity to Ms. Jolie’s appeal, a willingness to kick some tail on screen and go after whatever she wants off-screen. The Media Equation: Elizabeth Taylor: Famous, but on Her Own Terms 2011-03-26T17:36:52Z The Greeks, like Mexican coach Herrera, saw sperm as a source of masculinity and strength that sportsmen needed. World Cup soccer coach urges players to avoid sex 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z What it came down to for me was a rejection of music that propped up the kind of masculinity I was afraid of as a kid. Writing family stories: Jason Tougaw on his memoir 'The One You Get' 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Those sunken shoulders represent every obstacle that Willy encounters, the threats to his livelihood, his masculinity, his sense of himself as a self-made all-American man. Wendell Pierce Fulfills His American Dream: Playing Willy Loman 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z The Death of Eli Gold sounds like a mature approach to the author's proud preoccupation with notions of masculinity and male sexual appetites. David Baddiel 2010-03-28T00:10:00Z "Silent Land" certainly punctures Adam and his weak masculinity. In the haunting "Silent Land," a couple's seaside stay in Italy plunges toward a moral implosion 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z The construct of masculinity was suddenly visible in nearly everything I focused my attention on—relationships, news, church structures, sports, products—and so was the fallout from a country built on that construct. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z That was revelatory to me — the shapes masculinity can take. The Demolition Artist: 3 Critics Debate Ivo van Hove 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Even the current #MeToo movement, which has ignited a debate about sexual mores, hasn’t really focused on women as sexual agents; rather hypersexuality has been equated with toxic masculinity. 'Sex addiction can happen to anyone': author Erica Garza sheds light on a female taboo 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z If we continue limiting boys’ personal development by requiring them to perform a narrow, inauthentic and stereotypically violent masculinity, it will continue to be at the expense of their social and emotional lives. 'We Must Look at How We Teach Our Boys What It Means to Be a Man' 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z Can you do what you did all the way through high school; hide behind this pose of fake masculinity or fake femininity when what’s inside of you is so different? Trump’s latest desperate gamble: Damaged president tries to save himself by persecuting transgender Americans 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z “My own personal narrative questions authority and gender and masculinity, especially in the Western world, and having fun with it,” said Luminous Pariah. Seattle Boylesque Festival returns in full to the Triple Door 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z A commentary on wealth inequality, masculinity and death, “Infinity Pool” follows a thrill-seeking novelist, played by Skarsgard, who falls prey to the hedonism of a group of tourists at a luxury resort. ‘Infinity Pool’ and the Battle for an R Rating 2023-01-27T05:00:00Z In this way, vanity sizing reinforces persistent size prejudice, not to mention the sexist double-standard associating slenderness with femininity, and brawny mass with masculinity. Is Abercrombie & Fitch the enemy? Or is it us? 2013-05-30T15:28:00Z Whether it’s their guns, their games, their book clubs, or their sporting arenas, nothing says “masculinity so fragile” like turning a building development issue into an opportunity to bully women. “This is why Ann Coulter has said that women shouldn’t be allowed to vote”: Sexist sports fans troll Seattle female politicians after NBA team denial 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Garcia Bernal, known for “The Motorcycle Diaries” and “Mozart in the Jungle”, said the movie also touches on “the crisis of masculinity”. Woman on fire: Larrain's 'Ema' tells tale of liberation 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Many hip-hop fans live for the sport of warring masculinities, so often catalyzed by digs at women and family, who are the weaknesses of bragging men. How Pusha T’s “The Story of Adidon” Viciously Undercuts Drake’s Celebrity 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Capturing different facets of masculinity made this show in phase with modern life and a standout in the international menswear season. Special Report: Fashion: Skirting the Issue of Gender 2011-06-26T16:53:58Z Rather than being entirely about anti-gay hatred, there is an element of "gender policing", of abuse directed at men who do not conform to a stereotype of masculinity. Suicide and silence: why depressed men are dying for somebody to talk to 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z If we are being honest with ourselves, we have long known that masculinity kills men, in ways both myriad and measurable. The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z The unsolved killings in “Red Riding” and the portrait of Northern masculinity, brutality and corruption suggest a terrible sins-of-the-father burden borne by a beleaguered society. 2010-01-30T16:59:00Z In her “Art History Paintings,” begun in the late 1980s, she questioned assumptions about genius and masculinity in canvases that juxtaposed styles from Jackson Pollock to Salle. Deborah Kass’s ‘Before and Happily Ever After’ Retrospective 2012-10-28T16:28:43Z He says he lacked a powerful father figure to teach him about masculinity, so he learned lessons about masculine things — “pride, toughness and aggressiveness” — through the young men he admired in his neighborhood. National Portrait Gallery exhibit features an exploration of Latin self-identity I hope people see that and appreciate that and inspired by that and bring more of that type of masculinity into the world. "The Inspection" and Don't Ask Don't Tell for a queer Black man: "Boot camp is brainwashing" 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z He’s a familiar narrative type with the usual late-capitalism woes, including the dead-end gigs, the family agonies, the wounded masculinity. ‘Stillwater’ Review: Another American Tragedy 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z “There’s something unique about Trump’s whiteness and his masculinity,” explains Mona Chalabi of The Guardian. Marvel’s Trump agenda: Maybe it’s no accident that fans have to push for equality and diversity at every turn 2016-01-29T05:00:00Z Does “now” mean we’re watching an epoch of entitled masculinity finally end? Who’s next? A moment of reckoning for men — and the behavior we can no longer ignore. 2017-10-26T04:00:00Z “A lot of pathologies in society, such as entitled masculinity, are related to men who are repressed. The evolution from boyhood to manhood isn’t something that naturally happens.” These Men Are Waiting to Share Some Feelings With You 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Mr de Villepin’s words combined “seductive masculinity and rhetorical verve” in the best tradition of French public oratory and linguistic elegance. They think, therefore they are 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Football is a sport that epitomizes American masculinity, and here was one of its stars saying he didn’t want to live like this forever — that he didn’t think life should be this way. Perspective | Andrew Luck surrendered to his pain. It was a daring thing for a man to admit — but it shouldn’t be. 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z One of the throughlines in your books are questions of masculinity and violence, and the relationships that men have with one another as fathers, sons, brothers, and comrades. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Self-help books and column inches are filled with people stewing over anxiety triggered by social media or Brexit existentialism; about modern masculinity and its compatibility with feminism. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z Several years later, during a 2019 conference for his My Brother's Keeper initiative in Oakland, Obama spoke about how racism plays a role in perpetuating toxic masculinity. At its heart, Obama and Springsteen's podcast is redefining the toxic masculinity upheld by Trump 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Douglas is a one-man Hollywood Rushmore, almost hyperreal in his masculinity. Kirk Douglas at 100: a one-man Hollywood Mount Rushmore 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z My masculinity is a patchwork shaped by the gender norms that saturated my childhood. Discovering Manhood in Soapy Bubbles 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Juan embodies some of the hardest masculinity in the film and is also a model of gay acceptance, slaying the canard that black people are more homophobic than white people. Moonlight portrays black gay life in its joy, sadness and complexity 2016-10-29T04:00:00Z Why she insists on equating masculinity and death is something you’d like to know more about, but revelatory answers to that question are not forthcoming in this cerebrally overbearing show. Review: Sex, Death and Little Subtlety 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z For me, the best scene is in the end with the lawyer and the victim, because you are in front of all that masculinity. "Bloody Oranges" star on playing a French political beast & "a revolution in this notion of revenge" 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z That includes confronting social assumptions about race, masculinity, and living in the United States as a second-generation immigrant. Jonathan Escoffery Has a Reality He’d Like to Share 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z “In that way, the collection is sort of an investigation of masculinity, specifically black masculinity,” Mr. Brinkley said. Short Stories for Summer Reading 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z Kanye actually mentioned the many women in his family, and said supporting Trump felt like it helped him reclaim masculinity, in so many words. Kavanaugh, Kanye, Beyoncé, ‘Black Panther’: Washington on Pop Culture in 2018 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z The term "toxic masculinity" was obscure in the 1990s and early 2000s. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z This all-male Orthodox Jewish contemporary dance troupe from Jerusalem presents “Heroes,” an exploration of modern Israeli and Jewish masculinity. Dance in NYC This Week 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z They represent a throwback to a totally different style of coupling, in which the women are trapped in under-stimulating domestic roles and the men are cornered by their own anxious masculinity. Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker Spend the Night Together 2020-03-02T05:00:00Z Also sadly relevant, a century after its writing, is Robert Musil’s “The Confusions of Young Torless,” about toxic masculinity and its links to fascism. Why Gish Jen Hasn’t Read One of the Most Acclaimed Books of 2019 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z Pelecanos needs a broad canvas to do his work, which is to use crime and the streets of D.C. to explore big themes of racial divides, masculinity and broken social institutions. Book review: ‘The Martini Shot,’ by George Pelecanos 2015-01-11T05:00:00Z This is the production’s sense of our world: deadened masculinity. In Europe, Opera Takes On Our Time 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z That the gay male community, or at least parts of it, put a certain type of jocky, all-American masculinity on a pedestal. Billy Eichner Wrote Himself Into the Romance He Wanted With ‘Bros’ 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z It wasn’t just about the mixture of sloppiness and invented detail, or even the crass reinforcement of every conceivable stereotype about masculinity and rock stars. Michael Hutchence: in the eye of the storm 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z Do these male characters represent corrupting, toxic masculinity? Midsommar: what the hell just happened? Discuss with spoilers 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z I wouldn't say that there is a crisis of masculinity. "American Carnage" isn't about Donald Trump: "I don't think the Trumps are that interesting" 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z I saw things that were confusing about what they meant for masculinity and for me and my position in that space. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Film critic Justin Chang weighs in too, sifting through an acting career that reveals “a magnificent distillation of all his ideas about American masculinity in crisis and the beautiful desolation of the open road.” Essential Arts & Culture: Hamlet as a teen? Plus a conductor's surprising exit, Shepard, Saarinen and more 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z The movie isn’t about guns; it’s about masculinity and manhood, and the need to break the pathological cycle of self-identifying virility and violence. Spike Lee’s Necessary, Overwhelming “Chi-Raq” 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z The youth at the time, including myself, started having a very different vision of sex and the lines of division between genders started disappearing, given that masculinity was and is in a tremendous crisis. When ‘Y Tu Mamá También’ Changed Everything 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z His behavior is symptomatic of a kind of toxic masculinity combined with a striving for the American Dream, which itself is a lie. Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z But we've got the guy in charge who so fully inhabits that anachronistic sense of masculinity, that it's literally killing people. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z The company is donating US$1 million to nonprofits who support positive forms of masculinity. Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The characters are superbly detailed, and masculinity and femininity are easily transferable. What the Rockettes and ‘The Hard Nut’ teach us about the meaning of life 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Chandor, who previously wrote and directed "Margin Call" and "All Is Lost," again investigates questions of masculinity and morality. Oscar Isaac set to simmer in 'A Most Violent Year' 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Banning videos by Robin Thicke, DJ Snake, and Calvin Harris, who use female bodies as trophies hard won of their overpowering masculinity, will not deflect the male gaze. Shocked and outraged by Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda video? Perhaps you should butt out 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z Adherence to masculinity expectations is problematic for men, for those close to them, and for society at large. Fathering and masculinity in the age of COVID-19: A noteworthy silver lining 2020-06-20T04:00:00Z In Angel’s view, she’s as invested in her partner’s masculinity as he is in her femininity, and they limit each other because of it. A memoir of female lust 2013-06-09T00:00:00Z “It’s a reckoning with toxic masculinity,” I answered. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z With his racist colonial plot, Burroughs glued animals, savages and Africa together in the American mind, and redeemed white masculinity after the first black heavyweight champion knocked it out in 1908. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Both inspired by and deeply disgusted with the 1960s New Left, women turned their backs on its cult of masculinity. How choice won 2012-09-22T17:45:00Z Carter has a speech about "reclaiming masculinity" and talks with disdain about the social constructs and equality. Casper Van Dien's career reflections, from "Starship Troopers" to his recent "creepy white dude" era 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z He believes the importance society places on masculinity might be more problematic than masculinity in and of itself. The Trans Actors Challenging Outmoded Ideas of Masculinity 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z So Mr. le Rat was asked to create a mural that spoke to the modern masculinity. Front Row: Art for Guys Who Hate Museums 2010-09-16T04:00:00Z A white father drives his young biracial son from Boston to Iowa to attend a rodeo in the author’s hometown, along the way confronting questions of race, masculinity, addiction and more. New & Noteworthy, From John Sayles to Julius Caesar 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z A more transgressive take on the horrors of toxic masculinity comes from a female director, Patricia Mazuy, a modern master who remains relatively unknown to Americans. France’s Fault Lines Are Exposed in an American Film Showcase 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z He paused, then said, “We need to understand how masculinity affected their experience.” A Master’s Degree in ... Masculinity? 2015-08-08T04:00:00Z While much of the scholarship about gender depictions in media has come from feminists deconstructing the endless damaging representations of women, there’s been far less research specifically about media-perpetuated constructions of masculinity. The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z Most of the time I welcome this, and consider vulnerability an alleviation of the pressures of masculinity, pressures that often lead to its toxicity. Best of 2018: What a dominatrix knows about #MeToo 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z Those feelings illuminated some unanticipated boundaries of where I define attractiveness in men and when I still crave traditional masculinity. My boyfriend’s wedding dress unveiled my own shortcomings over masculinity 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z She made waves early on with “Black Male,” her 1994 Whitney show, which played with the myths and stereotypes of African American masculinity. At the Studio Museum in Harlem, a curator who loves art ‘on a cellular level’ 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Yeah, the point of the movie is he learns about his toxic masculinity and all that. Perspective | The 10 most baffling Golden Globe wins and nominations of the millennium. (Remember ‘Salmon Fishing in the Yemen’?) 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Others are taking a stealth approach, quietly chiseling away the boundaries between masculinity and femininity through non-traditional retail, models and silhouettes. Spring 2016 is all about lacy shirts, floral prints, silky fabrics — for men. Hey, why not? 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Every man will face a dilemma in his life where he will be tasked with proving his masculinity to other men. After Charlottesville, solving the problem of angry men: What does healthy masculinity look like? 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z Beck’s 1977 novel “Death Wish,” about the Mafia in Chicago, even suggests ways to channel gangsta masculinity toward socially productive ends. The Fires That Forged Iceberg Slim 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z I can’t be the only one tired of the blustery masculinity surrounding the cult of the beard—almost an extension of the most infantile elements of frat culture. Down with beard culture: An argument for old-fashioned shaving 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z “West Side Story” deals with issues of masculinity; how are you approaching that? Six Stars of the New ‘West Side Story’ Discuss Its Enduring Relevance 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z To promote the album, the band recorded a podcast that explores themes from the album, such as online abuse, toxic masculinity and body image. Feminist Rap Group in Iceland Looks Abroad After Making a Stir at Home 2020-05-29T04:00:00Z Mr. Alipoor doesn’t think “The Believers” is about ideology, but about technology and its impact on masculinity. What Radicalizes Young Men? This Show Tells You via WhatsApp 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z The movie doesn’t really judge any of its characters, but Lee interrogates the vanities, hypocrisies, desires and misplaced passions of young, black masculinity. She’s Gotta Have It: why Spike Lee's sex-positive debut is a coming-of-age classic 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z Though the thread that binds the collection is masculinity, twined in its fibers is the question of freedom. A Set of Brilliant Miniatures by the Author of ‘The Good Lord Bird’ 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z A common thread throughout the book is the idea of performance, where so much masculinity is tied into being a certain hyper-hetero ideal. Damon Young on wooing with Wu-Tang, teaching Whiteness 101 and how survival "makes you blacker" 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z "Toxic masculinity" was virtually non-existent in academic writing — including feminist scholarship — up until 2015 or so, other than in a handful of texts on men's health and wellbeing. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps, in Dej, Minaj finally saw a counterpart, a female rapper who could upend traditional notions of masculinity and femininity, rap and pop, hard and soft, as she herself had done before. A Female Rapper Pushes Forward 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z By using his platform to ventilate social norms, like those around masculinity, he hopes to influence their understanding of the world. Is America Ready for the Mind of Terence Nance? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z But I’m not reviewing another run-of-the-mill adaptation of “Hamlet”; “Fat Ham,” James Ijames’s outstanding transformation of Shakespeare’s tragedy into a play about Black masculinity and queerness, both echoes “Hamlet” and finds a language beyond it. ‘Fat Ham’ Review: Dismantling Shakespeare to Liberate a Gay Black ‘Hamlet’ 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z The issue with the Gillette ad is not that it is supporting a cause, or even that Gillette is supporting the particular cause of toxic masculinity. Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z The production, starring an unforgettable Jaquel Spivey, succeeds on multiple levels: It provides trenchant commentary on Black art, the Black body, religion, masculinity and queerness, while also being laugh-out-loud funny and heartbreaking. 10 Stages and Screens Where I Saw Connection 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Foxcatcher is an exploration of the conflict that arises from the myth of male masculinity and bravado. The evolution of Channing Tatum: from 'dull beefcake dude' to XXL movie star 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Ibata is compelled by brute masculinity, both experienced in his own life and as portrayed in pop culture. Review | In the galleries: At Strathmore, artists illuminate the darkness 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z At the end of the movie, Gale indirectly kills Katniss’s sister, which should probably be a lesson to us all about toxic masculinity. Why women should start giving short men a chance | Poppy Noor 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z He slips in an occasional iris shot and liquid slow motion, and folds in ideas about brotherhood, masculinity and the catastrophic, perhaps unpayable debt exacted by a violent past. Review: Blood Is Never Simple in ‘The Sisters Brothers’ 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z “The Believers Are But Brothers” is in essence a show about toxic masculinity in the internet age. What Radicalizes Young Men? This Show Tells You via WhatsApp 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z What observations do you have about this agenda, and the crisis of masculinity — a word that Carter says, "Is rarely used without the word "toxic" in front of it?" Casper Van Dien's career reflections, from "Starship Troopers" to his recent "creepy white dude" era 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z However, as Salon's Matthew Rozsa reported in January, a recent study found that support for a dominating style of masculinity could be used to predict one's love for Trump. At its heart, Obama and Springsteen's podcast is redefining the toxic masculinity upheld by Trump 2021-02-23T05:00:00Z Realise there’s a problem “It’s difficult convincing men that there’s a problem with masculinity because they are the least equipped people to realise they are lacking things on an emotional level.” Grayson Perry: ‘Boys think they’re breaking the man contract if they cry’ 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z Before my father came out, I thought masculinity looked like baseball on TV, Coors Light in the hand, and anger and unhappiness lurking beneath the surface. When a Dad’s Secret Changes Everything 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Ignoring almost entirely the progressive sects within American Christianity, Garriga focuses on white male conservatives' reclamation of masculinity as a reason to go to church. 'American Jesus' a superficial look at Protestant subcultures in U.S. 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z He remains one of the most visible connections to an earlier movie period, even as his work has broached insistently contemporary concerns, including a lifetime exploration of masculinity and its discontents. This Summer’s Action Heroes Are Several Shades of Gray 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z He became an activist, and a few years later, began teaching classes on masculinity. Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z Collectively, these are now referred to as “traditional masculinity ideology.” Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Many woman responded with nuts-and-bolts practicalities: “Toxic masculinity is not attractive and is not getting results that women need,” a woman from California offered. Perspective | Donald Trump keeps begging women to like him. They keep saying no. 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z The pushback against the term “toxic masculinity” is often virulent and immediate. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z Miller was obsessed with masculinity but felt no need to support himself or the women in his life. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: The Legacy of Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' 2012-01-27T20:00:39Z As the spring 2015 fashion season opens in New York, masculinity is represented in a multitude of ways, from the intellectual aesthete to the swashbuckling hero. Waif vs. Adonis: Fashion week sets up a great manliness debate One possible reason otherwise-feminist men might distance themselves from fully embracing the word is that it challenges, by definition, conventional ideas of masculinity. Pharrell doesn’t think men can be feminists 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Her dissertation, titled “The Dudification of Diet: Food Masculinities in Twenty-First-Century America,” examines how media representations of food, cooking and dieting construct and negotiate masculinity in our current culture. Real women are still expected to cook: From sitcoms to the Food Network, the “angel in the kitchen” pressure on women prevails 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z I did feel that I tried to render on the page that masculinity in Pocahontas County, maybe southern West Virginia more broadly, isn't this bad, extra-macho kind of masculinity, per se. "The Third Rainbow Girl" author on the true story of a double murder she didn't set out to write 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z Care has been taken to certify their masculinity as a nontoxic variety, and the “no girls allowed” rule governing their long-running game is justified by the fact that they were 9 when they started out. Review: ‘Tag,’ You’re It. Playing the Long Game Into Middle Age. 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z The misogyny and threatened masculinity on display half a world away is no different from what exists in the United States; the only distinction is in the pretext. Sex and Power: The Provocative Explorations of Catherine Breillat 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z It’s a film that’s honest, and strikingly literal, about the way men react to threats to their masculinity – with seething resentment, unspoken desire, and violence against women and each other. Boys on film: what we can learn about masculinity from Hollywood 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z “There should be more of a push for men to do this, to get rid of their fears around their masculinity and virility, when actually it’s nothing to do with that.” Pills, gels, customised jockstraps: are we any closer to a male contraceptive? 2019-04-29T04:00:00Z But what The Dilemma does differently from the more genial and successful bromances is acknowledge how male friendship can devolve into the type of “bros before hoes” mentality associated with toxic masculinity. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z Grappling with narrow but deep-set ideas about propriety and masculinity, he discovers that there’s a lot more to his culture than he ever knew, and that there are multiple ways to be Arab. Five International Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z About halfway through, Gillette calls for men to abandon dated models of masculinity and fight against the stereotype. Razor burned: Why Gillette’s campaign against toxic masculinity missed the mark 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z Sam Shepard’s tale of brotherly animus and noxious masculinity, produced by Roundabout Theater Company, stages its last showdown. 16 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z She strikes a cozy tone that is the literary opposite of toxic masculinity. When the Aftermath of a Shooting Is as Devastating as the Crime 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Mistrust of yoga’s religious implications, “New Age” oddness and meditation techniques conflict with many cultural assumptions about American masculinity. What happens when two guys ditch their fears and try yoga 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z In a world dominated by men, it might seem counterintuitive to imagine masculinity in need of redemption. Art Review: Getting Small: A Man?s World, in Miniature 2010-12-02T22:49:00Z At Balenciaga, he took masculinity and gave it some spine. The Year’s Top Stories From the Fashion World 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z What observations do you have about how masculinity is depicted in the film? "The Death of Dick Long" dares you to love the men who love Nickelback 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z A shorts program about re-evaluating masculinity, “Boys Beyond Boundaries,” which was new last year, has returned with films like Christina Willings’s Canadian documentary “Beauty,” featuring five children whose self-definitions don’t match their birth certificates. 27 Ways to Keep Your Kids Culturally Engaged This Winter 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z The cowboy was just one of the models of desirable masculinity that emerged in the post-World War II era for gay men. How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z The term "toxic masculinity" points to a particular version of masculinity that is unhealthy for the men and boys who conform to it, and harmful for those around them. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The book centers on Mr. Blow’s upbringing in a segregated town in Louisiana; the scars left by childhood molestation; meditations on masculinity and sexual identity; and efforts to escape cycles of violence. This Summer, Opera Grapples With Race 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z “At the end of the day, an earring is an earring, and with societal lines around masculinity changing, no longer is the accessory limited to one gender.” Why Men Are Embracing the Single Dangly Earring 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z I saw some resonance, too, in thinking about war, that version of masculinity and violence that still gets so idealized and even romanticized. Emma Cline on Anger and Nostalgia 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z I argue that the language evangelicals used to defend their support for Trump suggests that they were not betraying their values, rather that Trump embodied well the rugged and even ruthless ideal of evangelical masculinity. From Donald Trump to John Wayne: How to become a hero of the Christian Right 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z The movement, she warns, is also creating its own crisis around masculinity. Want to be more assertive in life? This former dominatrix will show you how 2018-03-30T04:00:00Z Seeing them try to embody the attributes of hip-hop’s vision of black masculinity is a hysterical gender disjunction: they wear it as convincingly as a woman wearing her husband’s clothes. White Female Rappers Challenging Hip-Hop?s Masculine Ideal 2011-12-23T14:30:39Z “And it needn’t always be larger than life and it needn’t be that kind of toxic masculinity, because that’s not what we want.” Women filmmakers have record showing at Berlin Film Festival 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Comic and tragic by turns, the play is a brash, profane and somewhat contemptuous exploration of black masculinity. Theater Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z At the Oscars, the academy can be expected to continue its tradition of equating gravitas with masculinity. The Carpetbagger: Box Office Heroines 2012-12-07T15:00:34Z Nevertheless, when I was asked to write a book chapter on toxic masculinity in popular culture, I immediately thought of "Sherlock" and "Elementary" as useful examples. Sherlock Holmes and the case of toxic masculinity: what is behind the detective’s appeal? 2021-01-04T05:00:00Z “A friend of mine thinks that wearing an N.B.A. jersey is a way of showcasing your masculinity after years of figurative castration brought on by skinny jeans and the like,” he said. Noticed: N.B.A. Chic for the Slim Fit 2010-09-18T01:14:00Z “Scarred by their histories, straitjacketed by conventional masculinity and stuck in jobs that squash their self-esteem.” Essential Arts & Culture: Parsing Measure S, 'Fun Home' inspires genuflection, SCI-Arc goes to Mexico 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Bowie was queering both masculinity and whiteness. How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z The new paintings introduce the additional subversive theme of the gay Black cowboy, and with it, lawlessness and the myth of straight white masculinity. 4 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-11-11T05:00:00Z But both are about masculinity and power, built around the titanic struggle between two savage men who each seek to assert their dominance over the other. ‘Billions’ Recap, Season 1 Premiere: Money and Sin 2016-01-17T05:00:00Z Valentines are less popular than ever, although the rude variety are reportedly on the rise, while thanks to modern masculinity, Father’s Day has boomed. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z Deep green silk and speckled with slinking tigers and glaring giraffes, it was Hannah’s tacit blessing for Adeem to explore beyond the bounds of masculinity. Adeem the Artist, Crafting a Country Music of Their Own 2022-11-28T05:00:00Z At my school, I recently asked several middle school boys to fill a “man box” with words that reflect cultural ideas about masculinity. 9 ways to help boys form the close friendships they crave 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z And what does EastEnders’ Dirty Den tell us about British masculinity? Why I love Sarah Jessica Parker 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z Yet on a stage that's swaggering with masculinity, Leonard distinguishes herself in several ways. In 'Wolf Hall,' unknown Lydia Leonard stakes a regal claim on U.S. stage 2015-04-17T04:00:00Z What are your thoughts about Black masculinity and how Killian's imposing figure makes others uncomfortable? "You have a religious devotion to this sport": Director on bodybuilding movie "Magazine Dreams" 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z For a few decades, he says, there was a lag where men’s conception of masculinity seemed stuck in amber even as they helped out more around the house. Michael Kimmel is out to show why feminism is good for men 2015-03-08T05:00:00Z "Swagger" also follows the more widely played and obsessed-over sport of basketball, taking inspiration from NBA player Kevin Durant's upbringing, but using his experience as a framework to examine accountability, brotherhood and masculinity. From masculinity to race, Apple's basketball series "Swagger" addresses "so much more than sports" 2023-08-12T04:00:00Z "While we can call attention to a culture of toxic masculinity and the need to disrupt power dynamics, this bill creates long-term change and gives power and control back to survivors," he told the committee. Terry Crews testifies in support of sexual assault survivors — and against toxic masculinity 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z While the larger show slyly examines the way toxic masculinity manifests in the people you'd least expect, Roy embraces his version of manliness without sacrificing his relationships with women. "Ted Lasso" has a message for everyone: Get you a man like Roy Kent 2021-08-14T04:00:00Z Larger-than-life heroes like Captain America, Batman and Superman now grace our screens year-round, projecting an idea of masculinity characterized by unfettered strength. Y.A. Novels That Let Teenage Boys Be Vulnerable 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z The nineties were “a moment when the American imagination became fixated on a particular kind of black masculinity,” Wright says, involving “super-predators” and violent crime. “Caught,” Reviewed: A Podcast That Captures the Voices of Incarcerated Kids 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z Moreover, Rhod appears to be the very definition of red-blooded masculinity. The Fifth Element at 20: gender bending sci-fi or sexist space shambles? 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z We talked about patriarchy and equity and consent and what it might look like to change, to transform, to inhabit healthier masculinities. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z It’s the most brutal movie about men in a year defined by uneasy masculinity. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z After all, men’s masculinity has long been tied to their ability to satisfy a lover, but in recent history it’s become harder to pretend that some simple in-and-out is enough to satisfy most women. There’s a new macho sex boast 2013-06-05T00:00:00Z “The show is brought to life by a strong ensemble cast that features many different shades of masculinity,” writes Times theater critic Charles McNulty. Essential Arts & Culture: L.A. culture after the riots, a stirring Beethoven concert, controversial Carl Andre 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z Allison recounts how one neighbour was excited after she Googled T – who has written a book about living as a transgender man and his views on masculinity. Life in our transgender family 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z Mr. Calderon also explored brutal masculinity in “Divine Horsemen” last year, but that show, faulty as it was, flowed better than the new one. Review: ‘Master of the Crossroads’ Embraces Irrationality 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z I didn’t know the words “toxic masculinity” yet. My education in toxic masculinity: Fist fights, bullying, and the strange glory of MMA 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z “I became interested in not necessarily trying to approach this perfect masculinity, but more to play with this false idea of embodiment.” For This Artist, the Medium Is the Body 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Then high-five or fist-bump or do whatever doesn’t bruise your tender masculinity. How Do I Get Off the Mailing List ... of a Family Member? 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z “I wish I had more of a game plan of how I’m going to, like, take down toxic masculinity,” he said. ‘Queer Eye’s’ Jonathan Van Ness is a one-man meme machine ready to take down toxic masculinity. Can you believe? 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z I think one of the most interesting things that people will remember about the show if they don't bring it back, is just how they dealt with masculinity on every different level. Iman Shumpert has an athlete’s mindset in acting: “I fell in love with that fight or flight feeling" 2022-07-17T04:00:00Z It's thrown all his preconceptions about masculinity up in the air and how is he going to cope if a donor is used? This week's new theatre 2013-01-05T00:06:11Z What we have are greedy, shallow creatures heroically taken on by a masculinity that essentially does not define itself in terms of money. Cowboys v bankers 2011-08-26T19:59:00Z Plenty of folks still view masculinity in the traditional, strong and silent way. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z And then we looked at the main character, Max, and we’re thinking, wow, it’s such a story of masculinity in crisis. At the Heart of a 19th-Century Opera: Modern Gun Culture 2019-11-28T05:00:00Z But who from this cast of action heroes new, old and positively ancient is the most and least expendable on the sliding scales of fame, fortune and masculinity? Who's the least expendable of The Expendables? 2010-08-06T23:06:00Z Ballet is widely seen as putting women on a pedestal — male dancers literally lift them over their heads — reinforcing conventional ideas about masculinity and femininity. The Place to Challenge Ballet’s Gender Stereotypes? In Daily Class 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z I offered my reading of “Big Wheel,” which had mesmerized me — raising themes, I thought, of labor, manufacturing decline, and the slippage between seductive and toxic masculinity. At His Moment of Triumph, Arthur Jafa Is Looking for Trouble 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z Jaime, when you were growing up, how was masculinity usually presented to you? As ‘Jane the Virgin’ and ‘Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’ End, Two Groundbreaking TV Characters Say Goodbye 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z She generally makes kinetic and thrilling movies about men and codes of masculinity set in worlds of violence. Kathryn Bigelow: How Oscar Found Ms. Right 2010-03-10T19:14:00Z Did she feel that she was investing in your future masculinity by doing that? “To Live in the World, and Not to Hide”: An Interview with Janet Mock 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Dealing — or not dealing— with toxic masculinity passed down through dads like receding hairlines is a big theme of the show in general. The "Red Right Hand" of "Ted Lasso": How the song with a murder narrative fits Roy Kent 2023-05-18T04:00:00Z If “The Landlady” expresses a quiet anxiety about women, “Psycho” is panicking about masculinity. Taxidermy Is a Metaphor for Our Time 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z The collared shirt/fleece vest combo conveys a very specific brand of masculinity. Perspective | What was William Barr’s fleece vest trying to tell us? 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z I get really really tired of hearing the phrase “mental illness” thrown around as a way to avoid saying other terms like “toxic masculinity,” “white supremacy,” “misogyny” or “racism.” It’s not about mental illness: The big lie that always follows mass shootings by white males 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The Danish director's Cannes Film Festival contender, the story of a small-town witch hunt triggered by a child's allegation of abuse, takes in sensitive subjects including masculinity, male-female relations and the presumed innocence of children. Denmark's Vinterberg brings 'The Hunt' to Cannes 2012-05-20T15:39:09Z How traditional masculinity suffocates restaurant culture comes up firsthand, just over halfway through the book — not in those words, which are my distillation and my own firsthand observation. ‘I Hear She’s a Real Bitch’: A Swaggering, Feminist Restaurant Memoir 2017-11-01T04:00:00Z And in kind of a more macro way, it's really about absurd notions of masculinity and aspirations for masculinity and why we pursue forms of masculinity that are a lot of times not healthy. Jesse Eisenberg opens up: "I think of myself as a basic, unremarkable person" 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Much of the show, and its subtext, might be about the crisis in masculinity itself: how men might refuse masculinity, just as women have, to an extent, been able to refuse their stereotypical roles. Glam! at Tate Liverpool: through a mirrorball darkly 2013-02-06T19:30:01Z At least his programmers made sure he could command with a charismatic robot-noir masculinity appropriate to contemporary Hollywood standards. From Siri to sexbots: Female AI reinforces a toxic desire for passive, agreeable and easily dominated women 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z I attended masculinity panels and masculinity groups and masculinity events where we engaged in uncomfortable exercises and felt all the shame and fear and anger we kept inside in front of one another. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z The masculinity thing is related to the mask concept. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z We talk about the ways expectations of masculinity and femininity inform and stifle us, or how we’ve all grown from teenage bravado informed by those concepts into unique adults, unafraid to be who we are. Trans, but not like you think 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In “Ad Astra,” an adventure tale weighed down by the burdens of masculinity, Brad Pitt plays an astronaut in flight. ‘Ad Astra’ Review: Brad Pitt Orbits the Powers of Darkness 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z He walks stiffly and speaks in a low monotone, acting out parody of masculinity that is charming, revealing and sad. | 'Albert Nobbs': ?Albert Nobbs? ? Movie Review 2011-12-20T16:46:28Z And perhaps it resonates for the president’s traditional, male supporters — the ones who see protecting femininity as a hallmark of their own masculinity. Perspective | Why does the president keep talking about women and duct tape on the border? 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z The milk was supposed to represent masculinity, and the rock was femininity, or something like that. Life After ?Saw? Turns Out to Still Be Scary 2011-03-18T22:01:35Z There are entire chapters about the levels of self-consciousness I possessed about my masculinity and my blackness, and how they impacted decisions that I have made. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z Scholars who have studied the language of wine critics have shown how cultural ideals of masculinity, class, and even physical fitness have influenced flavor descriptions in past decades. Is There a Better Way to Talk About Wine? 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z Jones and his grandfather never said they loved each other; they were only “as close as patriarchal masculinity allows men to be,” the author said. Robert Jones Jr. Is Son of Baldwin, and More 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z In other words, it provides a fine lens through which to look at modern masculinity and its discontents. Dudes on Ice: A Play About Hockey Tackles Masculinity, Too 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z The show also interested him as entertainment that would “potentially have some social and cultural impact, that’s really trying to explore some topics like gentrification and toxic masculinity,” he said. Mahershala Ali? You’ve Surely Seen His Face 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z I am particularly interested in discussing the ideas of masculinity in the film. "It's a quiet revolt": Filmmaker on how "The Last Tree" moves between Black and white spaces 2020-06-23T04:00:00Z As we interrogated our feelings about masculinity, we recognized gaps between our ideals and reality. My boyfriend’s wedding dress unveiled my own shortcomings over masculinity 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z The result enlarges our idea of masculinity in dance. Duets That Reflect the World Offstage 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z Without bemoaning the disintegration of a terribly two-dimensional idea of strong masculinity, the new wave of tough, independent female characters does seem to be increasingly paired off with love interests who simply don’t measure up. What's with all the sooky, disappointing men on TV right now? 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z It's been amazing to watch the top leadership in our government fully embracing everything that I think is wrong about masculinity, spearheaded by the guy at the top. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z The princess in Alexis Mabille ’s mind this season is one who likes to mix in a bit of masculinity into her decidedly feminine sensibilities. Fashion Review: The Princess Principle: Spring/Summer 2012 in Paris 2011-10-03T18:24:57Z What becomes a sign of their masculinity is their social power, which has increasingly become the amount of sexual power they can display with women; having lots of women becomes a sign of masculinity. Our new era of hearbreak 2012-06-24T18:15:00Z It is a killer's heart that is the motive force of masculinity and predation its spirit. The emasculation of the modern vampire? 2011-07-29T21:30:00Z On the contrary, the Winchesters are paragons of white American masculinity, played by heartthrob actors who aged along with their audience. How "Supernatural" reflects the American spirit and the monstrous darkness lurking underneath 2020-11-20T05:00:00Z His book is a treasure trove of portraits of 19th-century American masculinity, in which male subjects are pictured with their arms draped over one another, hands clasped and sitting on each other’s laps. Caught in a bad bromance? We should be encouraging man hugs, not mocking them 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z Macho peacocks do develop an infectious form of masculinity that poisons everything it touches, often inflicting the most damage on the host. Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z Lost somehow to all the inevitable wisecracking about Brooklyn hipsters and their Gold Rush chin-whiskers was the significance of this generational shift from the smooth cheeks that defined Western masculinity for at least 100 years. The Modern Man: Suited and Hirsute 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z “Pink was seen as being ‘light red’,” Haller says, “and red was the colour of masculinity – it represented stamina and power.” Think pink: how the colour is being reclaimed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z “I love the beauty I find in masculinity,” he writes, When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z As bigger-is-better signifiers of masculinity, those oversize accessories are simply transparent and ineffective. Where Have All the Cowboy Hats Gone? 2012-10-02T12:00:09Z “Meditation,” a reflection on black masculinities inspired by the 1989 film “Tongues Untied,” was one of five world premieres in the eighth edition of Realness. American Realness: Subversive, Crowded and Lit by Vital Sparks 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Liddy served prison time for conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping, then parlayed his “strong, fearless” masculinity into best-selling books and a talk-radio show that reached 10 million listeners. Perspective | Little Liddys everywhere: The legacy of a political ‘super-klutz’ 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Your book often resists making declarative statements, but what do you see as the status quo for masculinity today? Laura Kipnis talks about power, anxiety and 'Men' 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The potential upside was high: Unlike a model, who was effectively a blank slate onto which a brand projected itself, a celebrity was a vessel already filled with associations, be it glamour, masculinity, philanthropy. Through Weeks of Depp v. Heard, Dior Stood By 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z At the same time, our concepts of masculinity and femininity—and of personhood, success, and freedom—have grown less compatible with the compromises of coupled life. What “Gone Girl” Is Really About 2014-10-08T04:00:00Z In reading your book, I like how you handle masculinity within different elements of your life. Damon Young on wooing with Wu-Tang, teaching Whiteness 101 and how survival "makes you blacker" 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z In the newly diverse TV landscape of 2018, 2008’s fixation on white, middle-aged, married men acting out against a perceived crisis of masculinity seems old hat and oddly unambitious. Skyler White: the underdog who set the template for TV's antiheroine 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z Race is the unmistakable subject of “Crow,” and “Kobe I Got Your Back” plays with codes of masculinity. Art Review: Tracking Racial Identity, But Not Defined by It 2010-12-23T22:15:18Z What all of this comes down do is how we view masculinity. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z This novel for children age 8 and up deals with several of these themes, including masculinity, adolescence and marriage equality. 12 groundbreaking books for young readers of all genders 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z The cowboy has long stood as a symbol of American values and virile masculinity. How gay rodeos upend assumptions about life in rural America 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Like many American suit wearers, I think he suffers from the misconception that the size a guy wears directly correlates with his masculinity. Critic’s Notebook: A Look at Paul Ryan’s Fashion Sense 2012-08-15T19:47:31Z So their way of asserting their masculinity was to be hard drinkers, the sort of Viking method of proving themselves. The ‘Jaws’ Shoot Was a Drama. Now It’s a Play. 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z But even then, to fully embrace The Dilemma also requires a tolerance for tonal discordance and a sociological interest in the bridge between the earnestness of the bromance and the gender hegemony of toxic masculinity. Hear me out: why The Dilemma isn't a bad movie 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z “I hate this term ‘toxic masculinity’,” he says. ‘Our goal is to halve the male suicide rate’: why no-frills therapy works for men 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z As for the rest of the album, Morrissey attacks the modern idea of masculinity while showing his most vulnerable qualities on “I’m Not a Man” and goes slightly romantic on “Kiss Me a Lot.” Review: Morrissey gets political on new album 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z To her, their reflexive focus on Washington’s stereotypical masculinity means that they neglect other things that are more important: his shortcomings and contradictions, the textures of 18th-century life. What the History Books Won’t Tell You About George Washington 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z He represented a masculinity that was morally obsolete and yet enviable in the power he was able to wield. The Sopranos: 10 years since it finished, it's still the most masterful show ever 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Schwartzman, who spent years in the town for a documentary, brings together new reporting, impressions of the consequences and a broader look at masculinity and accountability. 12 New Books Coming in July 2022-06-30T04:00:00Z She added, "And consequences? None for the Hollywood elite that derides ‘toxic masculinity’ unless it comes from one of their own." Will Smith's violent slap of Chris Rock stings for concerned educators, parents 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Walk Like a Man: Definitions of masculinity and femininity swirl from boxing to the hospital scenes with the newborn and parents as well as through Bill’s revelations. 'Masters of Sex' Recap: Of Might and Men 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Do you think professional sports foster a kind of stereotypical masculinity, or do they help channel it so the rest of us are a little bit safer? Dudes on Ice: A Play About Hockey Tackles Masculinity, Too 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z An 11-year-old boy has to learn some new lessons about masculinity and family when his uncle marries another man in this touching and insightful novel from the beloved Peck. Notable Children’s Books of 2016 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z In 2016, some schools in the commercial hub of Shanghai started using a textbook to cultivate masculinity in boys to avert what they feared was a masculinity crisis. Make-up does not make boy bands 'effeminate', Chinese film reviewer... 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z He also discussed “sexist foundations,” “notions of masculinity,” “social constructs of gender,” “social hierarchies” — gender studies terminology to which many in his audience appeared to stare blankly. Campus Sex … With a Syllabus 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z The paradox, of course is that in our current narrow framework of masculinity, self-examination is almost universally discouraged. The monster myth: What I learned from seeing my wife’s killer in court 2014-04-28T23:00:00Z Onstage or in his podcast, he comes off as the ultimate macho blowhard at the bar, but his greatest jokes are about the prison of masculinity. The Best New Comedy Specials to Stream Right Now 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z The panorama of the scene is a tribute to Ralph Lauren’s prophetic vision: sportswear that’s attached to the traditional garb of monied masculinity by means of it all being stitched together with an invented crest. Goldman Sachs, Patagonia, and the Mysteries of “Business Casual” 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z The film hinges on Adam’s ability to kill: He couldn’t put the fox out of its misery, but his stomach becomes stronger as he proves his masculinity through brute strength. ‘Barbarians’ Review: Unexpected Visitors 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z “Genderqueer people see gender not as binary with men or women, but as a spectrum that ranges from masculinity to femininity. Most genderqueer people identify somewhere between or outside of conventional masculinity or femininity.” Gender-neutral pronouns: When ‘they’ doesn’t identify as either male or female When she calls him out on his “toxic masculinity” — having no idea how toxic it really is — Barry actually takes it to heart, even if he has a hard time applying the lesson. Review: In ‘Barry,’ This Actor Slays Them, Offstage 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z I was also envious of my brother, with his natural way with friends and his uncomplicated masculinity, his ease with violence. My Rear Window 2014-12-29T05:00:00Z Nothing necessarily wrong with any of these stories—it even directly fits into the show’s continued examination and deconstruction of masculinity, as we watch all these characters paint themselves into corners. “True Detective” recap: A redemption, a murder, a rescue and a descent back into the underworld 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z And do that work constantly: “Actively combating toxic masculinity is a daily practice, not a single one-time event that happened in your past,” he writes. Review | Raising a boy in 2020 is tough. Three new books aimed at fathers offer some guidance. 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z But at May's upfronts — where networks announce their fall schedules to advertisers — there was a pattern: sitcom after sitcom about how today's men are besieged and need to rediscover their masculinity. High Manxiety 2011-05-26T07:10:00Z The short king embodies the dismantling of the height hierarchy and conventional expectations, his masculinity firmly grounded and personally defined. In praise of short men: will the rise of 'short kings' spell the fall of toxic masculinity? 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z I didn't realize how damaging it was to be so caught up in masculinity, that I couldn't see that. Scammers hid behind his face — but he had hidden for years, too 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z "Toxic masculinity" highlights a specific form of masculinity and a specific set of social expectations that are unhealthy or dangerous. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z If, however, it is intended as an accurate reflection of the U.P.’s population, I’m pleased to report that every male Yooper I know fails to qualify as “wreckage of American masculinity.” Sins of Commission (in Michigan) and Omission (in Spain) 2019-08-16T04:00:00Z Plenty view it in a new, expanded way — masculinity includes nurturing, tenderness, etc. Perspective | The weird masculinity of Donald Trump 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z Those bodily displays made him unique: an Asian-American star whose masculinity and physical prowess were front and center, not only in the films themselves, but also on promotional posters, billboards and merchandise around the world. How Bruce Lee Exploded a Stereotype With a One-Inch Punch 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z “Ken is an artist with the capacity to weave together historical references and contemporary urges when it comes to looking at masculinity,” said Sally Tallant, director of the Queens Museum. The Forgotten History of Chinese Railroad Workers Rises From the Texas Dust 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z But he was awed by the participants’ bravery, and by “how many versions of masculinity, and trans masculinity, were celebrated and welcomed.” “Man Made,” a Film About Transgender Bodybuilders, Upends the Traditional Documentary Gaze 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Hardy took a walk on the wild side and was sufficiently confident in his own resounding masculinity to play a very gender-challenging character in this weird film set in the 14th century. Tom Hardy's 20 best film performances – ranked! 2020-05-14T04:00:00Z It does not pull its punches when depicting masculinity at its most toxic, yet utterly avoids any descent into myopic misandry. There's no blaming studio interference for the disappointment that was Wonder Woman 1984 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z But “Unicorn Wars” is forcefully provocative, trying too hard to push buttons at the cost of more nuanced explorations of masculinity and power. ‘Unicorn Wars’ Review: Teddy Bears in Battle 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z In the space of that conversation, I felt I’d had a vital piece of my masculinity – and one of the great gifts of manhood – ripped from me. Why I prayed for my testicles 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z By the early noughties, psychologists, behaviourists and evolutionary biologists had got their teeth into it, and started to investigate variability in preferences for masculinity. Fancy that: the golden age of the sexy geeky leading male 2012-07-27T21:59:00Z The main culprit in this book is patriarchy itself, with its view of masculinity as narrow as the tunnels beneath Baxter’s village. In Paradise, ‘Men Can’t Control Themselves’ 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Riley remembers peers telling her team that toxic masculinity is too serious for a kids’ book. Teen authors encourage boys to express their hurt feelings 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Bly never grasped, it seems, the core concept of feminism, that the attributes of masculinity and femininity are cultural fabrications, rooted in a caste system in which one sex serves the other. Revisiting Jill Johnston’s Critique of Robert Bly and ‘Iron John’ 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Rafo, abandoned by his Texan father and abused by his Mexican mother, is attached both to Macho and to an ideal of tough, strutting masculinity. ‘Cry Macho’ Review: The Good, the Bad and the Poultry 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z As in his earlier works, he wanted to “play against the toxic notes of black masculinity associated with things like criminality.” With a brass band blaring, artist Kehinde Wiley goes off to war with Confederate statues 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z They do not see, as Okonkwo obviously does, a contradiction between the old man’s greatness in the realm of masculinity and his mutually dependent relationship with his wife. Chinua Achebe: The man who rediscovered Africa 2013-03-22T14:45:00Z “I have battled with a masculinity complex, both personally and professionally, all my life. It goes exactly to Lara’s comments, ‘We’ll see how long that lasts.’ Perspective | Lara Spencer apologizes for ridiculing Prince George and ballet, but the damage has been done 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z It was always interesting to talk to gay and trans boys about masculinity because gay boys were spies in the house of masculinity. "Boys & Sex" author: If you can't say no, I don't know if you can hear it 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z The mighty Thor, that symbol of masculinity, aggression, violence and war, is going to be a woman. Here's Why a Female Thor Makes Total Sense 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z Most Confident Color Choice: It takes a certain amount of confidence in your masculinity to wear a head-to-toe hot pink ensemble and dance a rumba/samba hybrid on national television. Dancing with the Stars Watch: Final Seven Go For Fusion 2012-11-06T13:30:17Z Nick must reckon with his ideas of masculinity because of his privileged role fitting in a traditionally masculine space as captain of the rugby team. Gen Z's coming out still faces hurdles, according to TV and movies 2023-08-15T04:00:00Z At a strange hospital where she nurses coma patients, Mari slowly discovers that the Christian community she loves — surprise, surprise — teems with sexual secrets and toxic masculinity. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z But Katniss doesn’t shift between masculinity and femininity; she inhabits both, which may mean that neither really fits. Arts & Leisure: Katniss Everdeen, a New Type of Woman Warrior 2012-04-04T12:00:00Z It's hard to avoid encountering the term "toxic masculinity" these days. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z This memoir explores the “shame, confusion and anger” that resulted, and works toward an understanding of family, fatherhood and masculinity. New & Noteworthy, From Missing Dad to Quitting God 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “I’ve been interested in the breakdown of masculinity, the loss of confidence that men have had in who they are and where they belong.” Tom Perrotta on sexual freedom and his new novel, 'Mrs. Fletcher' 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z Feminists have developed a term to attack insensitive and selfish expressions of chauvinism, calling it “toxic masculinity.” Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z I certainly didn’t set out to write a book about toxic masculinity. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z It was surprising to me how little there was, that was written from a kind of everyday perspective about masculinity. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z Instead, he is a Black man at a crossroads and thus has the opportunity to reimagine what paths of masculinity lie ahead. Can an Abuser Make Amends? ‘The Color Purple’ Points the Way 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Schools would be asked to help youths to explore a less narrow version of masculinity, and encourage parents to talk to their sons about manhood and fatherhood. British male identity crisis 'spurring machismo and heartlessness' 2013-05-14T17:39:29Z Unlike sports that can at least nominally attribute their gender imbalance to physical strength, pinball offers no gameplay advantage for masculinity. Women find sexism in male-dominated pinball — so they’ve started leagues of their own 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z For most of the 2010s, 20-something men in weathered baseball caps injected the genre with an almost comical masculinity — brawny, hip-hop-inflected sounds, lyrics that treated women as objects of lurid attention. In Country Music, Nice Guys Finish First (for Now) 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z But Lawrence represent an honest example of masculinity, blemishes and all, that remains rare on TV. Smart Watch: Let’s look at men via portrayals in “Mr Inbetween,” “Insecure” and other T... 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Toxic masculinity is made to appear natural and normal. "Game of Thrones" isn't "just fantasy": Westeros is a reflection of our terrible realities 2019-05-18T04:00:00Z Offerman envisions the newsletter as addressing questions of woodworking, relationships, masculinity and food. Nick Offerman Endorses Lumberjack Boots and ’80s Funk 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z Their bliss doesn’t last long, because that would get in the way of this skin-crawling film’s expedition to excoriate toxic masculinity, religious radicalism and class and racial entitlements. Five Horror Movies to Stream Now 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z This gender disparity probably has something to do with the enduring association of audio technology, like turntables and mixers or synthesizers and sequencers, with masculinity. Music: Female Artists With a Penchant for Synth Sounds 2011-10-09T03:30:07Z Michael Salter, a board member for the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation, writes that the term “distinguishes ‘toxic’ traits such as aggression and self-entitlement from ‘healthy’ masculinity.” Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z “What I was surprised to find,” she told the Guardian, “was the extent to which they are using ancient Greek and Roman figures and texts to prop up an ideal of white masculinity.” The 2,300-year-old philosophy stoicism has enjoyed a revival of late, including in Silicon Valley 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z I guess that's also true for men, but no one ever asks me if my male characters are presenting a negative image of masculinity. ArtsBeat: Elizabeth Meriwether Answers Your 'New Girl' Questions 2013-02-05T16:00:20Z Your book is really about kind of the branding issue that we have around masculinity, and feminism. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z To market any sort of self-care to men, many companies harp on an idea of extreme masculinity. Do Men Self-Care? 2021-02-15T05:00:00Z These rules include a preference for “authenticity” over artifice and an overriding admiration for rebellion and masculinity. Glen Campbell: The First Good Ol' Boy of American Pop 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Anders Holm plays a stay-at-home dad in the movie, and the character has conflicted feelings about that role and his masculinity. Nancy Meyers on The Intern, Anne Hathaway and Rom-Coms 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z “From the beginning, I wanted to put a little hint of masculinity in her costuming — something a little tomboyish,” Ms. Flesch said. In ‘Colette,’ Keira Knightley Trades Her Corsets for a Daring Suit 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z It is a show brimming with impressions, niggles, tenderness, and it has proved not only wonderful television and a celebration of regional food, but also a sumptuous portrait of masculinity. ‘I like it when people think this is real’: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon on The Trip to Spain 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In sharing his own struggles with health, relationships, sex and masculinity, Pryor was forging a path to the kind of unapologetic candor that defines so much of contemporary comedy. The 50 Best Movies on Netflix Right Now 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Her goal is to shed light on the lesser-known aspects of black masculinity. Brand to Know: An Emerging Line That Explores Black Masculinity 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z It’s something of a profanity-laden counterpart to “Death of a Salesman,” its scorched-earth monologues and inventive insults providing the flashy surface to a melancholy indictment of empty capitalism and toxic masculinity. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z I address vulnerability, masculinity, race, but in ways that aren’t typical. Daemond Arrindell returns poetry to the people 2013-04-05T01:39:16Z The reason is, of course, that books exist in a society where femininity is still considered to be a second-class characteristic, and masculinity defined most strongly as an absence of the feminine. Gendered covers are failing young adult readers 2013-06-04T23:42:00Z They can’t compete in the true battlefield of masculinity — genuine self-confidence, not bluster and braggadocio, and the restrained use of power and influence, not the garish flaunting of it. Perspective | President Trump: The new Mae West? Let us explain. 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z In “Portrait,” she turns to black African masculinity, guided by questions, as she explained in a postshow talk, about a man she barely knew. Review: A Dizzying and Dense ‘Portrait’ From Nora Chipaumire 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z What I didn’t understand when I began writing my story was that all of it was connected to my understanding of masculinity in ways I’m still trying to unpack. Men explain toxic masculinity to me, a man writing about toxic masculinity 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z In “NFL Confidential: True Confessions From the Gutter of Football,” a player writing under the pen name Johnny Anonymous relates a method of expressing masculinity that fans might not have considered. Review: In ‘NFL Confidential,’ Protein Shakes Instead of Bling and Booze 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z Albinati is a scholar of the harlequinade of masculinity, its rites and subtleties. A Prize-Winning Blend of Fact and Fiction Makes Itself at Home in the Minds of Killers 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z Two final solos bring more focus: one pushing against narrow notions of masculinity with rolling hips, shoulders and wrists; the other pressing the analogy between the spread thighs of a horseman and ballet turnout. Review: Dreamy Cowboys and a Ballet Bath 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z He was able to pull off this more fluid character who was offending Carter's sense of masculinity. Casper Van Dien's career reflections, from "Starship Troopers" to his recent "creepy white dude" era 2023-04-08T04:00:00Z Nature, here, isn’t impressed with masculinity at all, and it’s prepared to smash machismo against its rocks along with anything else. Review | ‘Raft of Stars’ takes a cue from Hemingway, then puts a less macho spin on the adventure tale 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z 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. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Instead of winking pastiche, the series presented surprisingly rich characters and themes — bullying, toxic masculinity, how past choices reverberate — plus some REO Speedwagon needle drops. ‘Cobra Kai’: Strike First. Strike Hard. Come Back for More. 2021-01-03T05:00:00Z The central theme of the show is Baxter in a household full of women struggling to retain his masculinity, which is presumed to be under assault because of all the estrogen around. Confessions of a Lumbersexual 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z What about the themes of masculinity and sacrifice? "The last thing we wanted to do was start a fire!": Peter Facinelli on his wildfire survival film 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z That would create a safer, more colorful, fashionable world untethered to unattainable, toxic ideals of the binary that is femininity and masculinity. We're long overdue to rethink pink: It's time to move away from gendered baby clothes 2023-09-21T04:00:00Z “I like the manufacturing of masculinity, which is theatrical to me,” said Mr. Kaplan, who spoke recently about the elements that went into the design. Making Manhood in ‘The Hairy Ape’ 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Directors can emphasize its witchy aura, its bloodthirsty politics, its marital drama or critique of masculinity without endangering its essential stageworthiness. Review: In a New ‘Macbeth,’ Something Wonky This Way Comes 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z “He proved that a famous athlete could be interested in clothes without it calling his masculinity in question,” Mr. Bastian said. | Noticed: Star Athletes Are Turning Up in Fashion Week?s Front Rows 2011-09-14T22:33:10Z When he speaks, his ever-so-slight Adam's apple is the first sign of his masculinity. Gender-bending model pushes limits of the runway 2012-02-09T07:48:09Z To me, the "Predator" franchise has always been about masculinity. "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z The researchers define “hostile masculinity” as a hostile and narcissistic desire to have power over women. Men Who Buy Sex Are More Prone to Sexual Violence, Study Says 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “Mask shaming men won’t work. Here’s what will,” read the headline of a Los Angeles Times article suggesting ways to “make masks and masculinity a better fit.” Perspective | Making men feel manly in masks is, unfortunately, a public-health challenge of our time 2020-06-27T04:00:00Z Decades of scholarship have established that constructions of masculinity are diverse, intersecting with other forms of social difference. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z In “The End of Men, Again,” the choreographer Vanessa Anspaugh reflects on life under President Trump as she explores and critiques male masculinity. Dance in NYC This Week 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z I talk about hegemonic masculinity and the dominant forms of masculinity at a particular time. From Guy Fieri to yogurt cups with abs, how "dude food" is presented and affects what we eat 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z Working with women or spending too much time in the feminizing clutches of mothers, teachers, and wives sapped a man’s masculinity. The battle for medicine’s soul: A century of alternative remedies 2014-01-19T19:00:00Z The 1992 film version featured a bravura monologue of sinister masculinity from Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy this year for his menacing Trump impersonation. 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revival examines the dark side of cutting deals 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Men didn’t simply admire him; they wanted to be him, partly because he revised the definition of masculinity. Frank Sinatra: A Hundred Years On, the Voice Resonates Still 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z How should we be describing this idea of masculinity to young people? Damon Young on wooing with Wu-Tang, teaching Whiteness 101 and how survival "makes you blacker" 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z Masculinity, and in particular black masculinity, is also a theme. Damon Young on the ‘Absurdity’ of Being Black 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z It’s not that masculinity is a bad subject for a sitcom. Review: The Descent of Man Up! 2011-10-18T16:46:00Z More to the point, it’s not going to change how boys are taught that masculinity is good and femininity is something less — a view that my research shows is associated with sexual violence. How toys became gendered 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Maybe it has something to do with Drake recently describing this record as “a combination of toxic masculinity and acceptance of truth, which is inevitably heartbreaking.” Review | Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ is a lonely, predictable wail from the mountaintop 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z “It’s very inspiring to explore the shadows of masculinity and femininity, and the tensions between both, and the place of women in the world right now.” Denis Villeneuve of ‘Arrival’ Leans In to Strong Heroines 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z He dedicates his new book, “The Descent of Man,” a plea for less toxic masculinity in the world, to his childhood teddy bear. Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z You know that guy—he’s self-assured and effortlessly cool, with a thin layer of rugged stubble to emphasize his innate masculinity. “Star Wars” doesn’t have a heroine problem: Arguing over whether Rey’s a “Mary Sue” is missing the point 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z My editor at the university paper wanted me to cover a lecture on the show’s deconstruction of masculinity. Today's TV shows are good – but they aren't The Sopranos 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z But as Jason O’Connell proves in a hilarious and explosive performance as Harold, the cult of masculinity that Vonnegut lampooned is still with us, absurd and menacing and terribly, terribly vain. Review: Toxic Masculinity, Vonnegut Style, in ‘Happy Birthday, Wanda June’ 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z And in Sweden there’s a provocative masculinity in it somehow. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z “I always explored his masculinity through his feminine self,” Byrne said. Saying Goodbye to Tommy Shelby, a Traumatized TV Antihero 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z My boyfriend’s wedding dress pushed me to perform a scrupulous inventory of my deepest ideas about masculinity and helped me identify my shortfalls as a woman who wants to help rewrite gender norms. My boyfriend’s wedding dress unveiled my own shortcomings over masculinity 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Oates, as always, has compelling insights about toxic masculinity and human brutality. Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The play models how toxic masculinity hurts men, too, and how change is possible. Think He’s a Jerk? Then He’s Doing His Job 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “It’s a way of signaling virility and masculinity, which can create social bonds between members of armed groups.” Perspective | Rape is a war crime, and Ukrainian women are sharing their stories 2022-04-26T04:00:00Z “The fist fight was the thing everyone expected. That was how masculinity was expressed, almost like the Sharks and the Jets.” 'I was terrified I was going to be a flash in the pan': three people who made Hollywood history 2018-03-02T05:00:00Z The spider web of masculinity that ensnares David is central to the stories he tells himself. Review | Playwright David Adjmi’s stirring memoir, ‘Lot Six,’ explores the very meaning of identity 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Acharya’s refined sculptural firmness, complex gestural eloquence, subtle musical phrasing and articulate grace are enough to extend most ideas of masculinity. Dance Review: Indian Dances at the Erasing Borders Festival 2013-08-16T22:24:56Z Presumably masculinity is so fragile that if a man is rejected romantically, the woman should at least be gracious enough to be available to him in some capacity. When “no” means “let’s negotiate”: Why Salma Hayek’s and Jessica Drake’s claims about Donald Trump resonate with women 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z En masse, the photos show a conglomeration of weird beards, ammo and camo, and a very specific brand of looks-like-somebody-got-a-Bass-Pro-gift-card-for-Christmas raging White masculinity. Perspective | Trumpist masculinity reaches its high water mark 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z And in a time when queer cultures are shifting to conversations around gender rather than sex, leather’s celebration of unfettered masculinity feels out of joint, he argues. Why is the gay leather scene dying? 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z Often they are sexual predators whom the male leads, epitomes of heterosexual masculinity, must be wary of. Gay-Themed Movies in India Fight Back Against Taboos 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Keller is also an actor, a valuable presence Off Broadway for years, specializing in performances that manage to be self-critical of masculinity. Review: In ‘Dutch Masters,’ Subway Seatmates, So Close and Yet So Far 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z The gathering turns into an increasingly revealing conversation about ethical choices, toxic masculinity, and what is now sometimes called adulting. Harry Potter Brought Him to Broadway. Now His Work is Everywhere. 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z Cassino found that when men were primed to consider earning less than women, they felt less excited about a female president, presumably because their masculinity felt threatened. Surprising stuff happens to men who earn less than their wives 2017-05-06T04:00:00Z In fact, Buruma is reserved on war history, and says little of the legacy of the bomb, except to observe that Japan’s masculinity had been compromised by defeat. Coming of Age as Performance Art: An Outsider in 1970s Japan 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z They have said he brought the themes of his early films, such as masculinity, loyalty, the plight of the outsider, to the story, eventually making it "a Clint Eastwood film". Age shall not wither us: why great art isn't the sole preserve of the young 2014-06-21T04:00:00Z Is there a subtext about black masculinity going on as well? Beyoncé’s stunning triumph: “What we’re seeing is absolutely unprecedented” 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z “It is about creating something for the guy who sits somewhere in between on the spectrum of masculinity and femininity.” Brand to Know: An Emerging Line That Explores Black Masculinity 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z It induces racist white men to believe that their masculinity and all its mischief triumphs any other male of different culture or hue. How racism found my son on Fortnite 2021-04-24T04:00:00Z We never see Erwin at work, which allows the movie to eschew an “alienated labor” analysis and concentrate on the more currently fashionable “declining masculinity” theme. Review: In ‘How Heavy This Hammer,’ Life Takes a Toll on Dad 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z But its sharpest slices are reserved for its ongoing dialogue with corrosive masculinity and the demon needling Joe, which is the urge to assert control in a place where he's powerless. The latest "You" makes a killing in the 'burbs, fulfilling the dark fantasies we'd rather ignore 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z Somewhere therein lay the answer, I was sure; I just needed to put together the pieces to find the kind of masculinity I needed to perform. On transfeminine anger 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z "I was thinking about masculinity," he explains, "and notions of masculinity." Artist Rafa Esparza is using 5,000 adobe bricks to make a building-inside-a-building in Hollywood 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z “At the same time, toxic masculinity is real.” The New Angry Young Men: Rockers Who Rail Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Onstage, he projected both an urgent masculinity and an androgynous vulnerability, as falsetto squeals yielded to deep baritone growls. Prince, mysterious, inventive chameleon of music, dies at 57 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Is he an internal critic of toxic masculinity or an exceptionally magnetic example of it? ‘Annette’ Review: Love Hurts 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z In a subsequent episode, a running theme of toxic masculinity culminates in an eight-minute original musical. Is America Ready for the Mind of Terence Nance? 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z The vehemence with which those around Tommy react to his not drinking also speaks volumes as to how they view masculinity. "Peaky Blinders" and Tommy Shelby's perceived crime of sobriety 2022-06-20T04:00:00Z James Hamblin, the usually brilliant health correspondent at the Atlantic, recently wrote an essay chastising Trump as the “climax of America’s masculinity problem.” Trump’s “alpha-male” paradox: How gender bias makes his behavior seem manly, no matter what 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z I'm curious now we're at this moment, where there are aspects of our culture that are really putting the "mask" in masculinity. Michael Ian Black: Trump's "anachronistic sense of masculinity . . . is literally killing people" 2020-10-07T04:00:00Z It has also given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness – traits that we do not foster as masculine or allow ourselves to associate with masculinity. Aisling Bea: ‘My father’s death has given me a love of men, of their vulnerability and tenderness’ 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z Here is a masculinity not of muscular exertion but baleful inaction. ‘The Volunteer’ Braids the Lives of Fathers and Sons 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z But as we follow Burke and Clover from Crawford’s Purchase, New Hampshire, to La Push, Washington, it becomes clear that the photographs explore an important side of his masculinity: fatherhood. | A Photographer’s Tender Exploration of Fatherhood 2014-04-24T17:39:30Z Also present are “Staircase at the University”, which satirizes academic expectations, and “I’m Not a Man”, which handcuffs popular notions of masculinity. REVIEW: World Peace Is None of Your Business Is Definitively Morrissey 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Tears come easily to him, especially when he talks about hard work, old age, masculinity. Anthony Hopkins: ‘Most of this is nonsense, most of this is a lie’ 2018-05-26T04:00:00Z Can you talk about the issues of masculinity presented in "Raymond & Ray"? In "Raymond & Ray," adult sons must bury their well-liked dad who was "inarguably a monster" to them 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z Both explore the sexual discomfort and embarrassment of boys and men not entirely secure in their masculinity. | 'True Adolescents': Great Outdoors Beckons as a Test of Manhood 2011-07-28T22:03:05Z Muhammad said to Nunn, “Bill, you embodied nineteen-nineties masculinity—the archetype of a black man. Was that something that came easily?” 'Do the Right Thing' at Twenty-five 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z “Jackie Robinson in the 1940s is the symbol of black masculinity,” the historian Yohuru Williams notes. Review: ‘Jackie Robinson,’ on PBS, Covers More Than Race and Baseball 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z You'd show up at his cottage and he'd be there in an apron, this picture of masculinity, talking about 'look at the crust!'. Winslet on her 'fragile' new role 2013-10-14T16:56:38Z “For me, masculinity is about control, and femininity is more of an embrace, the art of listening,” Mr. Villeneuve, who is 49, said by phone from Budapest, where “Blade Runner 2049” was being shot. Denis Villeneuve of ‘Arrival’ Leans In to Strong Heroines 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z As a society, how are we planting the roots of toxic masculinity, and how can we root it out? The damage we do to boys and men that explains the Trump presidency 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z With a backdrop of street violence, the film is a searing exploration of family rifts, growing up and masculinity. Clip joint: British shorts 2013-02-07T16:11:03Z The term may cement the assumption that the only way to involve men in progress towards gender equality is by fostering a "healthy" or "positive" masculinity. "Toxic masculinity": what does it mean, where did it come from — and is the term useful or harmful? 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Art was feminised as something that would soften and damage masculinity. My father was always angry with me, but why was he furious when I got a job? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z It’s an outright rejection of the ideals of toxic masculinity that don’t allow men — and especially black men — space to be honest about their feelings. An emotionally illuminating evening with Sampha at 9:30 Club 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z In childhood, it was men’s bodies she loved to draw — she was a “connoisseur of masculinity,” she wrote in “Fun Home,” a worshiper of Charles Atlas and Jack LaLanne. Alison Bechdel’s Latest Offers Familiar Pleasures in Brighter Colors 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z The deeper we go in, the more this complex culture reveals itself, and amid the cauldron of toxic masculinity there are moments of grace and power. The best films of 2018 … that you didn't see 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Charting 24 hedonistic hours in the life of a gay Greek-Australian teenager, Head On is a fierce and evocative depiction of queer identity and masculinity in crisis. What do female film-makers have to say about male stories? 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z In “The Revenant,” every scene is that scene—except instead of suffering for his masculinity, DiCaprio is killing himself for the sake of “art.” The birth of “extreme cinema”: “The Revenant” is an endurance test of suffering for Leonardo DiCaprio — and moviegoers. But for what? 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z Yet, like most westerns, “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” is, among other things, an examination of violence and masculinity, one in which women remain critical if largely off-screen figures, silent if never truly mute. | 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia': ?Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,? Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Review 2012-01-03T23:54:00Z Following “Auto,” it felt like the second panel of a diptych; as my date rather wearily whispered, “He needs to reclaim his masculinity with shaving cream.” David Wampach in Queer New York Festival at Abrons Center 2012-06-13T21:19:11Z The Barney Stinson Effect also was born — it claims men are more attractive in suits — but he’d be held up as an example of toxic masculinity by the end of the decade. Don Draper, Eleven, Selina Meyer lead AP roles of the decade 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z The spider web is a conventional symbol of industriousness within life's inescapable fragility, and the chains are materials redolent of stereotypical associations with masculinity and femininity. Loss permeates Jim Hodges' art; prepare for heartbreak 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z There’s a generation of women, she thinks, whose idea of strength hinges upon toxic masculinity, bravado and impenetrable toughness. How ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Helps to Heal Generational Trauma 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z You talk in the book about masculinity and what it means now, versus maybe when you were a kid and getting these ideas formed. "Everyone can and should get our own 'Predator,'" says writer who's watched film 146 times 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z Combining a parodic masculinity with intimations of women’s work, these big, squarish canvases boast a generous internal scale. Jess Fuller: ‘Planet Without a Body’ 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Last week we took a look at visions of masculinity and men on television. Smart Watch: This week’s TV heroines who nevertheless persist 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z It wasn’t a negating of her femininity or a bolstering of a masculinity. In Hamlet and in Life, Ruth Negga Does Not Hold Back 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z In “Depresh,” one joke about how drinking Sprite in the 1970s could raise questions about your masculinity assumes a bit of knowledge of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” What Happened After the Joke: A Stand-Up’s Harrowing Tale 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z But I spend pages historicizing the dude and delving into the specifics of "dude masculinity." From Guy Fieri to yogurt cups with abs, how "dude food" is presented and affects what we eat 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z He says he’s a student, and glows with a magnetic, insouciant masculinity, with just the right amount of enticing mystery about his background. Review: In ‘Sandra,’ a Search for a Friend Leads to Self-Discovery 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z Country remains American music’s bastion of cultural conservatism, with a fan base that sits well to the right of the wider pop audience, and songs that strenuously uphold traditional white working-class images of masculinity. Out and Riding High in Nashville 2013-05-24T12:00:31Z The 1992 film version featured a bravura monologue of sinister masculinity from Alec Baldwin, who won an Emmy this year for his menacing Trump impersonation. 'Glengarry Glen Ross' revival examines the dark side of cutting deals 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z From there, he eases into the special’s central subjects: the gendered expectations that he claims prevent men from expressing affection, and the damage wrought by what he has learned to call toxic masculinity. Daniel Sloss’s “X,” a Laddish Comic’s Reckoning with #MeToo 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Trump has questioned the masculinity and character of his Republican rivals. It’s all just wrestling to Donald Trump: Everything the GOP front-runner knows about politics, he learned from the WWF 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z I love to challenge the notion of what people find to be acceptable masculinity. "Wildhood" is a Two-Spirit liberation: "I’m done with Indigenous and queer characters that are sad" 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Thus for him, wearing a kurta to a movie event was both an act of reclamation and, equally, a chance for him to tweak “Eurocentric and precolonial” notions about what masculinity means. Statement Dressing in a Red Carpet Kurta 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z This one is an incredible treatise on the damage of toxic masculinity, which were not words when this movie came out, and the obvious antidotes, which are connection, support, brotherly love. Elizabeth Banks Swears By Rob Reiner and Finger Sandwiches 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Or, "This is the toxic black masculinity episode." Terence Nance on “Random Acts of Flyness”: How HBO’s most daring show gets made 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z The movie is based on James Lee Burke’s “Winter Light,” a terse, moody short story that’s an atmospheric, interestingly ambiguous meditation on masculinity and ethics that turns into a war of self-annihilating will. ‘God’s Country’ Review: A Solitary Woman Isn’t Left Alone for Long 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z The six artists here exploit the broad cultural fluency in the medium to variously frame American masculinity as fraught, turgid and heavily constructed. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in April 2023-04-05T04:00:00Z Clinton lost the election to an opponent whose only certifiable qualification—and, often, the one he was proudest to display—seemed to be his masculinity. On Margaret Fuller and Woman in the Twenty-First Century 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z So when Junior starts hosing himself down in Old Spice-scented masculinity and becomes a man—which, of course, means dating attractive young women—in that straight-out-of-Sophocles way, mom just can’t handle it. Old Spice's Clingy Mom Ad Will Make You Cringe 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z The men fall under her wicked spell without much protest, quickly becoming animalistic caricatures of masculinity. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger’ and ‘The Four: Battle for Stardom’ 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Of course, the horse is an allegory for masculinity, which is, in the dream, exhausted, unable to breathe. Leïla Slimani on Living with Unbearable Secrets 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z Donald Trump embodies a type of crude, primitive, backwards, violent masculinity. Matthew Modine on America's love affair with guns & what people get wrong about "Full Metal Jacket" 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z “My Mother’s House” is an ambitious attempt to tell a story of despotism and terror, toxic masculinity and survival, and is a needed contribution to this difficult conversation. Inside a House in Queens, a Dark Side of the Immigrant Story 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Ultimately, to discuss the relationship between guns, white men, masculinity and mass violence in America is verboten. “He was your average Joe”: The police and the media coddle another white killer 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Questions about the role traditional masculinity plays in the workplace are at the heart of Mythic Quest, which centres on the team behind a massively popular online fantasy game. Rob McElhenney: 'I was fuelled by privilege, ignorance and testosterone' 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z It retains a cult following, with the hard-boiled masculinity and political incorrectness of Waterman and Thaw's rule-bending Flying Squad police officers inspiring affection among fans. Shut it: Plan B to star in new Sweeney film 2011-04-05T12:59:25Z I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. Caitlyn Jenner on Privilege, Reality TV and Deciding to Come Out 2015-12-09T05:00:00Z Two new story collections reckon with how masculinity not only affects men themselves, but reverberates throughout the world, fundamentally altering the workings of humanity — often for the worse. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z She’s using it to cut deeply into complex subjects like masculinity, power and desire. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z Much of this is in fact a crisis in masculinity. Author Don Winslow: Trump's administration feels like it's "manifested itself" as the coronavirus 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Hostin added that Smith's behavior wasn't admirable but rather, an outward display of "toxic masculinity." "The View" hosts side with Chris Rock after on-air Oscars slap: "Comedians are in danger everywhere" 2022-03-28T04:00:00Z Pat, in our family, we call it the cage of masculinity. Drama and imagination: The iconic stylist behind “Sex and the City” on what fashion should be 2023-04-02T04:00:00Z I started to ask questions about Williams’ reading, how it felt to read about and then watch the scene, what questions of race and masculinity it provoked. My trigger-warning disaster: “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Wire” and how coddled young radicals got discomfort all wrong 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z Hathaway spoke to the Guardian last year about the role that toxic masculinity plays within the film’s unusual plot. Anne Hathaway has psychic connection to giant monster in Colossal trailer 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z My designs have always been inspired by rugged masculinity and “Querelle” was the first gay film I had ever seen that presented a homosexual man as a hypermasculine, gay icon. ArtsBeat: The Gay Film That Changed Your Life 2012-03-16T15:00:11Z The show’s avatars for Hamlet, Ophelia and Laertes are all gay despite the homophobia, gender stereotyping and toxic masculinity that runs in their families. Onstage, Paradise for Black Characters Often Comes With a Price 2022-06-22T04:00:00Z Emotionally violent partners are governed by insecurity, hence my husband’s talent for weaponizing incoming information as an ambush against him, an affront to his masculinity, or a reason to attack me. Men aren't volatile riddles for women to solve 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z In fact, only in the past century has the word “virility” been displaced by the more anodyne “masculinity” and “manliness.” When Men Wanted to Be Virile 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The play follows a group of African men and their conversations — about politics, family and masculinity — in six barbershops in London and Africa. BAM Reimagines the Next Wave Festival 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z In “Fraternity,” the college experience consists of four years of fumbling awakenings, both intellectual and sexual, in an environment where everyone struggles with the plague of masculinity, even the men. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z Lots of men messed around with masculinity, and not just the megastars. George Michael Mattered Beyond the Music 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z Where do those notions of masculinity and danger fit for you? Nick Cave & Co. open the debate on love, sex, sexism 2010-08-20T23:57:00Z Overall, Roma contains various stories that subtly unveil different forms of violence: poverty, social exclusion and gender-based violence promoted by sexist and misogynistic forms of masculinity. Two things you may have missed in Alfonso Cuarón’s "Roma" 2019-01-13T05:00:00Z With masculinity in its sights, Ross Raisin’s “A Natural” dares to tackle frustration and thwarted action as its themes. The Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2017 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z “My goal is to be a walking piece of political art every time I show up. To challenge expectations. What is masculinity? What does that mean?” Billy Porter Won the Oscars Red Carpet Before It Even Began 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z I study gender and the media, and I specialize in depictions of masculinity. Why are sitcom dads still so inept? 2020-06-21T04:00:00Z Research has shown the damage that homophobic, transphobic and misogynistic forms of masculinity have on men and boys. World Cup 2022: Men’s soccer must stop silencing activism and allyship 2022-12-03T05:00:00Z Yes, fraternities offer young men camaraderie and support during their first years of independence, but they’re also incubators for the kind of performed masculinity that leads to violence, sexual misconduct and existential anguish. What’s Wrong With Men in America? 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z More often than not, masculinity is the unspoken catalyst of the action in opera: the justification of brute force, the base of jealousy, the root of rage. Review | With debut of ‘Fire Shut Up in My Bones’ at the Met, a watershed moment for American opera 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z Men shut down by their own brittle masculinity were gradually prised open until they felt able to participate in the world again. Is Netflix's Get Organized with The Home Edit the most 2020 show of 2020? 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Personally, I’ve always thought our primary subject matter was masculinity: what it means to be a man, what we can and can’t say. Saying Goodbye to “Key & Peele” 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z |
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