Have you heard the phrases, “boys will be boys” or “real men don’t cry?” What about men “like the idea of just being able to do what [they] want”? Young ...

In a world designed for broadcasting curated lives, performance has become a new way to measure masculinity. As men compete ...

In the press, the intra-MAGA spat pitting wealthy tech bros Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy against the larger MAGA masses has been framed primarily as an immigration fight. That's fair enough, as the ...

Social, emotional and cultural factors influence healthy living. This is particularly true for men, and the science describing these connections is well-established. It's a linkage that has received ...

Senator Murphy is certainly onto something when he identifies backward-looking hyper-masculinity as a fundamental problem in America. The critics quoted in the Courant article assert that Senator ...

Popular culture has two competing narratives about manhood. Charlie Kirk rejected both of them and set an example that young men should follow. The dominant view is that masculinity is toxic. In 2018, ...

Colorado claims to have the longest-running gay rodeo in America. The Rocky Mountain Regional Rodeo is a place to challenge hyper-masculine expectations in country and western culture. Rodeos have ...

Recent public expressions of masculinity by men like Tim Walz or Pete Buttigieg have garnered a lot of attention in recent weeks. In online spaces, I have read many posts about how their behaviours, ...

Veteran actor Naseeruddin Shah has voiced strong criticism against the growing trend of Hindi films glorifying "hyper-masculinity" and "degrading women." Speaking at the Kerala Literature Festival in ...