And it often feels aggressively masculine like it's got something to prove or is compensating.
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She had survived 26 years in the aggressively masculine culture of fighter pilots in the Air Force.
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The alpha hero is a stalwart archetype of romance novels: aggressively masculine, in the traditional sense, powerful, stoic, and usually rich.
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Holbein's famous portrait of Henry VIII gives us the public face of the king: imperious, bejeweled, aggressively masculine, red beard bristling, codpiece prominent.
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His perfectly coiffed hair, milky soft skin, and dreamy love songs swayed towards the gentle and feminine, while his war-vet, sneering mugshot, jailhouse-rocking ways swung back to the aggressively masculine.
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Friends of Ms. McSally's describe how she learned to mask all vulnerability in order to survive an aggressively masculine military culture in which women were barely seen as equals, let alone capable of leading.
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I was nervous when I heard HBO was adapting the series, partly because I have been burned by book adaptations in the past and partly because many HBO shows feel so aggressively masculine to me.
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"I was nervous when I heard HBO was adapting the series, partly because I have been burned by book adaptations in the past and partly because many HBO shows feel so aggressively masculine to me," Eleanor Sanford writes.
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This year, the British film God's Own Country, for example, follows similar patterns; it's a Brokeback-style tale about an aggressively masculine sheep farmer in the north of England who learns to be emotionally vulnerable through a romance with a visiting migrant worker.
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Later, as an adult, Manning was encouraged by her father to join the army, and she enlisted in what is perhaps the most aggressively masculine institution imaginable in the summer of 2007—three years before she was arrested, and six years before she came out as transgender.
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Which is interesting to think about — that this particular decade, one so heavily shaped by increasingly radicalized social media platforms, began with users of heavily male communities like 4chan and Reddit deciding to abandon an aggressively masculine meme like Chuck Norris and instead embrace a picture of disheveled loneliness.
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It is also a way to establish difference and a distinct identity; most girls like X, but I like Y. Whether aggressively masculine in Elvis's case or treading the line of femininity and androgyny like Sinatra and the Beatles, none of these stars were examples of the all-American boy that girls were supposed to be looking for in boyfriends and husbands, which was a large part of their appeal.
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For Philip Roth's semi-autobiographical avatar Alex Portnoy, neither the nice Jewish boy nor his more aggressively masculine counterparts (the churlish Jewboy, the "all-American" ice hockey player) prove to be acceptable identities to attain. The ceaseless floundering between the two fuels Portnoy's Complaint.
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From 1978, he also served as vice president of the International Federation of Free Teachers' Unions and treasurer of the European Teachers' Trade Union Committee. He had a poor working relationship with Fred Jarvis, his opposite number at the rival National Union of Teachers.Will Woodward, "In harmony?", The Guardian, 13 March 2001 Shirley Williams described Casey as "aggressively masculine" and believing that men had superior minds to women.
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When English drama was reborn in 1660 with the re- opening of the theatres, the leading tragic style was the male-dominated heroic drama which celebrated powerful, aggressively masculine heroes and their pursuit of glory, as rulers and conquerors as well as lovers. In the 1670s and 1680s, a gradual shift occurred from heroic to pathetic tragedy, where the subject was love and domestic concerns, even though the main characters might be public figures. After the phenomenal success of Elizabeth Barry in moving the audience to tears in the role of Monimia in Otway's The Orphan, she-tragedy became the dominant form of pathetic tragedy and remained highly popular for nearly half a century. The realm of pathetic tragedy became an exploration of the female experience as the private female sphere, that of the domestic, was put on the stage and publicized.
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