hypermasculinity
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Coexisting with the amazing athletic skill, physical intelligence and grit, there was a type of insecure performative patriotic hypermasculinity.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2026
I don’t think that’s quite what hypermasculinity means, but we’ll get to that in a minute.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
They must also navigate their place in a work culture that values toughness and hypermasculinity with a history of being resistant to well-being, former and current officers told The Washington Post.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 7, 2021
When the Black Power movement rolled around, it embraced patriarchal authority and hypermasculinity via a militaristic imagining of strength complete with fists in the air and guns strapped to protesters’ backs.
From Slate ● Dec. 18, 2019
In 1988, a former military psychiatrist, George R Brown, coined an expression, "flight into hypermasculinity", to describe the counter-intuitive attraction of the military for transgender people.
From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2016
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