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To be “manly” is to be secure in one’s maleness.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
Majors once said in an interview that "nothing is a monolith — not Blackness, not maleness, not comic book villains."
From Salon ● Dec. 20, 2023
And yet Bond’s regressive maleness thrived in films that grossed billions worldwide, while the Beatles became secular saints, beloved and immortal, light-years away from the insurrectionists of 1962.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 7, 2023
But now, in 2020, a more complicated maleness at least superficially prevails in Nashville country.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2020
But these two definitions, career and maleness, were a lot clearer to me than the idea of race.
From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers
