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"Masculinity" in a Sentence (14 examples)
I think hairiness is a symbol of masculinity, so I really like it.
The aim of jazz is the mechanical reproduction of a regressive moment, a castration symbolism. 'Give up your masculinity, let yourself be castrated,' the eunuchlike sound of the jazz band both mocks and proclaims, 'and you will be rewarded, accepted into a fraternity which shares the mystery of impotence with you, a mystery revealed at the moment of the initiation rite.
He sees any easiness as a threat to his masculinity, so he always starts games on hard mode and ends up stuck on the first level for days.
While the daughters of the Viking invaders were brought up by their English mothers and learned to speak good English, the little boys ran along with their fathers picking up less than grammatical English from them, as a result of which, to this day, poor grammar is associated with masculinity in the Anglo-Saxon world.
We're trying to help Tom reclaim his masculinity.
Is modern society becoming more feminine, or masculine? Is the ubiquity of tools not the sign of masculinity?
You fear masculinity.
Many of you are very concerned about gender. In my culture, I'm not so masculine, but I seem so in your culture. Masculinity is relative by culture.
He totally lacks of masculinity.
To you, what is masculinity?
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Over time, society's ideas of masculinity has greatly broadened.
Of the six homosexual patients, three men finally overcame the underlying vaginaphobia, increased their heterosexual activities, and enhanced their masculinity.
Steven Cohan highlights the suggestive qualities of Red Rivers dominant narrative, the opposition between the radically different masculinities Clift and Wayne represent: "the highly charged context between the soft boy and the hard man in '''Red River dramatizes such a shift in the mainstream culture's demands upon ''masculinity".
“What this work shows is that masculinity is not just an ideology that men strive to achieve. It’s something we value as a culture,” said lead author Theresa Vescio, a professor of psychology and women’s, gender and sexuality studies at Pennsylvania State University.
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