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To be “manly” is to be secure in one’s maleness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Across many decades and many cultures, maleness was defined by provision, procreation, and protection.
From Slate ● Aug. 5, 2025
Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 11, 2025
Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
“All that maleness wasted,” she said, combing my thick hair gently.
From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
