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To be “manly” is to be secure in one’s maleness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Julia Knitel has a voice that breaks up the monochromatic maleness of the score.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 27, 2025
A program note describes the approach as a “lens of the divine feminine,” albeit one that does not reject maleness.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
The confusion in my mind existed because I heard, read, and saw different definitions of both career and maleness.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
