But it also works as a criticism of traditional maleness.
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Meanwhile, Trump can fully lean into his whiteness and maleness.
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I don't want to inhabit maleness; I want to understand it.
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He wasn't putting it out as a new template for maleness.
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What she was recognizing was, in effect, an inherent maleness to chronology.
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Timberlake's white maleness is obviously not new — it is only newly visible.
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PG You weren't concerned by the ultra-maleness of his movies, Lena?
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Isn't being more lustful, competitive and aggressive exactly what's wrong with maleness?
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The only privilege I lack is maleness, and I pass easily as heterosexual.
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A straight white woman running for office challenges one big political norm, maleness.
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Without direct effort to counteract TV's insidious whiteness/maleness, things will stay the same.
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A lot of the issues of maleness are about the inability to express love.
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The gender crisis even then, "Bernhardt/Hamlet" suggests, was not about femaleness but maleness.
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It isn't marketed specifically to boys or girls using stereotypical markings of maleness or femaleness.
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On some days, I decide it's the automatic way most people associate tallness with maleness.
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In this issue, men are doing the gazing, and seeing a complicated range of maleness.
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Why it matters: Over the last year, much has been made of the industry's maleness.
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The danger is in its abstract implication that the root of maleness is sexual possession.
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I think it's to do with fear, a deep fear, and confused ideas around maleness.
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They feel tarnished in terms of their maleness -- powerless, out of control and low in confidence.
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And study after study has shown that maleness in and of itself offers men unearned advantages.
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And she had nothing to fall back on: not maleness, not whiteness, not ladyhood, not anything.
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But physical prowess may be a contraindication of "maleness" when wielded recklessly or for criminal purpose.
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The whiteness, maleness and conservatism of his Cabinet proves he's not making any concessions to political correctness.
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A serial monogamist, I found that at every turn I was constrained by issues of, well, maleness.
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A male candidate's very maleness would damage a central pillar of the best political arguments against Trump.
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Licensing and registration did not lead to mass confiscation, and cars remain objects of maleness, power and freedom.
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Gardenhire's pictures seem to be interested in using history to create context to render self-possessed black maleness.
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Did he actually try to deflect and normalize sexual predation as ubiquitous jocular language intrinsic to maleness itself?
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One landmark moment like Cox's role in Doubt does not make up for endorsing overwhelming whiteness and maleness.
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The only exception to the unrelieved maleness is Sonia Delaunay-Terk's fiery 1915 "Portuguese Market," acquired in 1955.
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There's obviously something phallic about the guitar, but in the hands of a woman, that maleness is subverted somewhat.
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It's the nearest thing I know of to a core constituent of maleness, our psychic ace in the hole.
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White nationalists feed off the sour fruits of a society where maleness and whiteness is prized as the dominant norm.
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He was a nerd, an IT guru, so striving for a certain type of maleness couldn't come from his profession.
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Networks keep taking bets on the same people, contributing to the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of the television creator landscape.
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Instead, she regarded her "very natural falling in love with the female sex" as a manifestation of her inner maleness.
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I have to believe the pictures are resistant in some way to commodified maleness, that fragility and masculinity can coexist.
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Masculinity, maleness, and success – these are some of the themes White is thinking about, consciously or unconsciously, in this show.
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In public, they present one version of maleness; back in their shotgun houses, in their own company, they present another.
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In its worst form, the association between Midwesternness and normalcy can become a proxy for whiteness, straightness, and/or maleness.
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These gestures on the canvas were crowned for their maleness and, in turn, used to eliminate competition in a small market.
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Earlier this week, a Twitter conversation about the whiteness (and maleness) of the gay media landscape led to the hashtag #GayMediaSoWhite.
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But the definition of manhood, and, more broadly, maleness, is one that affects not just a single gender, but all genders.
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I'm not certain why I do this, but I have a theory: I've learned to associate black maleness with early death.
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" At the center of the brewing war is fear: "They're so scared that maleness is dwindling away in front of their eyes.
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All of these factors help to create an environment in which "maleness" is the default, and women's concerns are not a priority.
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Meanwhile, gay men, by their very existence, challenge male dominance by undermining the link between maleness and the sexual domination of women.
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I do feel like there's something just fundamentally broken about our illusions and delusion of what maleness and masculinity has to be.
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It is a very sort of male scene, and I guess there was something about the maleness of it that intrigued me.
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The presence of a Y chromosome can lead to the development of biological characteristics associated with maleness, including higher levels of testosterone.
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The difference is that now the definitions of maleness are slowly, creakingly, expanding: or, for the braver among us, being discarded altogether.
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The testicle, the center of male reproduction, the very source of maleness itself, is not a sacred organ like these patriarchs claim.
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They highlight problems that might otherwise go unnoticed by a public that still sees whiteness and maleness as the default in many contexts.
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The player can offer to help her, to "use your whiteness and maleness and position as protagonist ," to deliver the letter for her.
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And Mr. Butler has shaped the play's representation of maleness — largely through Ms. Schreck's interactions with the inventive Mr. Iveson — with loving complexity.
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And for questioning that political performance while defending the disproportionate maleness that makes it necessary, the Google memo-writer simply had to go.
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She loved the English canon, hated its implacable maleness and wove that love and hatred into the warp and weft of her masterpieces.
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I came to realize that there is a whole sector of society in which the privilege of whiteness and maleness didn't really trickle down.
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There are many people whose stories we miss out on because our society teaches us to question realities that go against maleness and whiteness.
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The priest gets to be designated as someone closer to God by virtue of his maleness; he has the privilege of believing in forever.
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Beyond informed and diverse representation, Jayanth wanted to ensure that players felt the weight of their own character Jean Passepartout's western whiteness and maleness.
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It's strange to suddenly see so much white maleness in the White House, says Lisa Fritsch, an activist and author who lectures on diversity.
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This story, too, sits amid one of the primary contradictions of black American maleness: To be black and fully realized is to be beautiful.
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And if it's perceived as an attack, that's because whiteness and maleness, and not class, have come to define the white working class. 19.
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When making was imported from Silicon Valley, I'm told by Chinese makers, so too was America's tech-bro culture, which overwhelmingly rewards whiteness and maleness.
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Hemon understands these issues, too, having grappled over the course of his career with his maleness, his whiteness, and his yearning for a vanished motherland.
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Added to these aesthetic and intellectual encounters with Islamic religion was the way maleness in Egypt's Muslim society gave the finger to American gender norms.
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Much of the book consists of a male ethnographer's attempt to understand maleness, but Zeke's quest seems really, subliminally, a desperate attempt to understand women.
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We started with 15 women, because it is Women's History Month and because the overwhelming maleness of our obit subjects is the most apparent imbalance.
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Behind the book's enduring appeal is the alternative vision of American maleness it offers: one in which lust is tempered with tenderness, bravado with vulnerability.
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She likens the men in these groups to a bunch of bros standing at a bar and trying to fit into mainstream ideas of heteronormative maleness.
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I probably don't have to tell you that no one expected a thing from my fiancé, who happens to be male, because of previously stated maleness.
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As a man wearing a tie, I am wearing "maleness" drag, no different from when someone puts on a wig (whether a man or Dolly Parton).
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Often, people view high volume through the simple viewpoint that it's in some way an expression of maleness; that it's designed to express in a macho way.
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"We know that women are less frequently diagnosed than men and often later in life, because of the stereotypes connecting autism with maleness," she told The Hill.
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The women in our male lives try to mold us and help us smooth out the excesses of maleness that is in our DNA and our culture.
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"If you see a straight white man not acting like that, not assuming his privilege, in a way, it's very threatening to your straight white maleness," he said.
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Did you find all of the maleness, all the focus on male sexuality, limiting, or maybe suffocating — or is that a caricature of what Roth is all about?
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Or artists like Matthew Barney, whose work demonstrates that maleness and masculinity can slip and reconstitute in profounder, more three-dimensional ways than a mild "destabilization" of stereotypes.
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We've learned to see our role as journalists as important, but also as just the most visible component of a vast social machinery that equates expertise with maleness.
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I was a competitive swimmer, and while I hated it, I didn't dare quit, as it felt like a retort to, and inoculation against, anyone questioning my maleness.
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All of these awards contenders save for Frozen 2 have at least one thing in common: Directed by men, they provide introspection into some form of troubled maleness.
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It was easy for them to take orders from La Mama, they do their whole life, as long as I respected the very thin façade of their maleness.
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After I came home to get top surgery in 2012, just a few years after coming out, I realized that I could start embracing the principles of maleness, i.e.
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He also talked to several people with nonconforming gender identities to get better insight into the character of Song, who ultimately wants Gallimard to see him for his maleness.
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Ever sinceVanity Fair threw the overwhelming maleness of late night in harsh relief, the premiere of Daily Show alum's Samantha Bee's new show on TBS, has been highly anticipated.
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Combs is a sometimes-impressive exemplar of the genre's unending maleness — for 50 weeks, his debut, "This One's for You," held No. 1 on the Billboard country album chart.
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The maleness of the world remains, but the novel's energy inevitably changes: instead of Queens and American Jewishness, we get an inspired and troubling account of Yoav's Army unit.
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In the ancient world, "public speech was a — if not the — defining attribute of maleness," the Cambridge classicist Mary Beard writes in "Women & Power," her sparkling and forceful manifesto.
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Both musicians turned the face into a landscape for creative expression — Jones used blush to amplify her fierce female power, Bowie to soften his maleness, to communicate sexual otherness.
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They were also white men, and they felt that there was no cultural sympathy for them; in fact, there was a tendency to blame the categories of whiteness and maleness.
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How one assesses maleness is an ongoing topic for Mr. Ellams, who has moved on from self-performed solo plays to allow 11 actors the ensemble of a playgoer's dreams.
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In a piece for The Globe and Mail last year, Denise Balkissoon pointed out that, "the myth that monolithic white maleness is the only path to success is dissolving," albeit slowly.
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Then suddenly, Kawakubo appeared like a sorceress, materializing a new and more permissive way of appearing in the world that changed not only fashion but, on a small scale, maleness itself.
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A desire to reclaim this psychic masculinity is why Mr. Trump fetishizes a specific (and specifically white) kind of rough-hewed American maleness while embodying an envy-inducing lack of obligation.
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Connor's wish to avoid bumping up against a specific brand of maleness and whiteness was one of many ways I saw the political climate articulated as I wielded my scissors and razors.
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More than that, these works pave the way for dispelling the notion that whiteness and maleness is a default—the default for superheroes, yes, but the default for all modes of storytelling.
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There are also new bands like Downtown Boys, In School and G.L.O.S.S. that have put out critically acclaimed albums that eviscerate the machismo, homophobia, transphobia and white maleness of the punk scene.
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In this case, the Oscars' most noted offscreen controversy — the glaring whiteness and maleness of many of the major categories and movies — didn't get quite the airing an extended monologue might have delivered.
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It feels embarrassing to be so gratified, to so deeply need a model of young cisgender maleness that is blatantly feminist, but considering how popular the photo was, I'm sure I'm not alone.
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I really don't want to invoke regressive gendered language that associates maleness with stereotypical traits like masculinity, strength, force, and courage, but in this case I must be clear: Man the fuck up!
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But in 2019, when centuries of whiteness and maleness are being disrupted more publicly than ever before, Discovery addressing it head-on puts the franchise, as a whole, right where it needs to be.
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That society has a mission for them to do, but it cannot avow the means by which it is to be accomplished and must avert its gaze from the appalling maleness of it all.
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The study's authors — Elizabeth Fitzsousa, Nientara Anderson, and Anna Reisman — found that many of their subjects saw these paintings as a demonstration of their school's values, which they identified as whiteness, elitism, maleness, and power.
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He was painting himself as a martyr for that maleness, and he was using beer — along with weight lifting, football, flatulence jokes and what he mendaciously insisted were inoffensive yearbook high jinks — to do it.
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It also became part of a larger conversation about divestment — from maleness, from whiteness, from straightness and thinness and cisgenderness — and how we might reconsider our assumptions about whose perspectives are worthy of literary treatment.
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May-ling and her first husband, Hann, play this sick psychological game where May-ling tries to use heterosexual and conservative Chinese norms to control Hann and Hann uses his maleness to order May-ling around.
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Oliver is a visiting scholar studying with Elio's dad; the fact that they are classics scholars, and the film is full of images of Greek statues of beautiful men, evokes those high-cultural models of maleness.
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I revere the Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase, but his fictionalized portraits of his extended family, complete with impostors taking the roles of absent wives and daughters, overturn expectations of studio portraiture much more than of maleness.
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As The Hollywood Reporter pointed out, "the organization began from a place of such whiteness (1003 percent in 2100) and maleness (250 percent)" that the changes it's made since are still far behind representing the American population.
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Was he demanding Jews be counted among minorities in America, or was he tacitly acknowledging that his white maleness was costuming for his ethnic status and so offering a sly critique of our culture of superficial tokenism?
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The director Lucy Dyson gives ordinary bushes menacing eyes (they also quake with rage), and, eventually, Barnett waves her arms around while hot dogs (no buns) drift limply across the screen, a winking stand-in for maleness.
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About as far as you could go was a phrase like "they were lying together, and he felt the urgent thrust of her body against him, and his aroused maleness was penetrating her, and he felt the warm soft moist clasping and the tightening..." 'Mistress of Satan's Roost' by Jack Kahler, cover artist unknown 303 Unmistakably these people are Doing It. But his "maleness" is what's penetrating her, not his cock or his prick or his dick, and something is clasping and tightening, presumably a vagina, but we aren't told that in so many syllables.
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I expected to feel his presence oppressively, but instead, in that small space, I registered him as being barely there—an empty vacuum into which the winds of whiteness, maleness, money, bigotry, and big talk were constantly rushing.
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Instead, it's something altogether more crass and potentially fascinating—a character study of the type of pathetic, power-hungry white man whose meager stature comes from his whiteness and maleness, who's slowly losing what little status he has.
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These, in fact, are the affective heart of the book, and allow Ortberg to summon the joy of transition without getting mired in agonized (and self-flattering) disclaimers over what it means to adopt the mantle of maleness.
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This is not surprising, given the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of the federal judiciary -- which is becoming even less diverse and inclusive under Trump -- and the promulgation of laws that fail to factor people of color into the equation.
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No matter how many times Biden showed the weakness of his candidacy or his inability to excite crowds in Iowa and New Hampshire, some voters reasoned that he'd still be a tougher candidate against Trump because of his maleness.
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For nearly every single product that is marketed towards men, he is there: the heterosexual Adonis who, dressed in nothing more than a tiny white towel, explains what type of shaving cream and soda men should get to attain ultimate maleness.
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His career has always been shaped and molded by his white maleness and the privilege it affords him, in ways that become clearest when you compare it to the careers of the women and people of color he became famous around.
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There's a dick to illustrate the male aggression his words evoke—the emblem of maleness, the sign of patriarchy and I want to own it, diminish it, then burn it all down and maybe sleep a little better at night.
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This quality seemed to characterize many of the worst aspects of Egyptian politics—pride, shame, a refusal to compromise, periodic spasms of violence—and sometimes I wondered how much dysfunction could be attributed to the unrelenting maleness of power in Egypt.
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" Ortberg delights in masculinity even while wondering at the ridiculousness of its gravitas — of the "baffling little burr of my new vocal cords," of the fantasy of maleness as consumption without guilt, a life of just inhaling "whatever number of pancakes.
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More significantly, the show began to explore the implications of Pete's maleness and whiteness in the current cultural climate — perhaps not with great depth, but with a nuance and a resistance to tidy lessons that some hipper productions could emulate.
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In 1966, Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale decided to test the unspoken racist boundaries of the Second Amendment, which have always assumed the whiteness and maleness of the American gun owner, and started The Black Panther Party For Self-Defense.
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An ascendant right wing in European politics meanwhile jumps to connect any reports of misconduct by Muslim men to their Muslimness and to Islam as a faith rather than to their maleness and the power with which patriarchy rewards it around the globe.
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Sarah Lucus's "Florian" (2013), a giant, gold-plated bronze sculpture in the shape of a butternut squash, is the primary representation of maleness in the room—but, in fact, it lies in a fetal position on the floor instead of standing upright.
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He never apologized for his body; he was more self-conscious about his black maleness than his disability, though he felt at times that his cane, the wheelchair, and the contusions on his legs gave him a streak of rainbow hair to accompany the horn.
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For the most part, I loved it — being a part of a community, knowing that no one would dismiss me for a leadership role because I was female in a place that was removed from the smug maleness of the world at that time.
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For this choreographer, "The End of Men, Again" — a sequel to "The End of Men; An Ode to Ocean" — is a continuing project that takes on the notions of maleness and femininity and strives to find a place where the two can live together.
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Arturo Di Modica, the creator of the 7,000-pound bull sculpture, is near despair at what he sees as the intrusion into his space last month of the four-foot-tall girl with hands on hips as she confronts the bull in all his maleness.
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To see a queer man in full drag death-dropping while lip synching Cher's "Believe" to screams of "WERK!" might be considered "too niche" for primetime television, but to see Danny Dyer, the poster-boy of straight white maleness, miming the words to Amy Winehouse is not.
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Three of the five directors seemed to understand their responsibility in tackling the overwhelming whiteness (and maleness) of the movie industry: Spotlight's Tom McCarthy, The Big Short's Adam McKay, and Mad Max: Fury Road's George Miller acknowledged that it's everybody's job to create a more inclusive industry.
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It is in the tribal nature of gay culture that white men still center their white maleness as privileged, if one step removed from that enjoyed by their heterosexual brothers, where racial minorities are too often fetishized and thing-ified, seen more as an opportunity than an equal.
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"Wickedly well-written," James Gorman of The New York Times decreed in his review of "The Last American Man," Ms. Gilbert's 218 biography of a charismatic buckskin-wearing, woods-dwelling utopian named Eustace Conway, one of her many chronicles of ur-maleness, and a finalist for the National Book Award.
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Part of what gave his work its creepy intensity was the enactment of conflicts that the artist himself might not have been fully conscious of at the time, or might have been loath to name — what he would later describe more candidly as a fascination with "male power" and the "mystification of maleness" in intimate relationships.
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"White boys (not only white boys, but especially) are taught not just that they're entitled to a perfect female partner/servant in the way Bancroft describes, but also that they're entitled to high status because of their maleness and whiteness; that being white and male are precious gifts that no one can ever take away from them," Chevalier wrote in the post.
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And my mother would still tell me, after this, that she wanted her son back, that I needed to return to God and maleness alike, that I was not her daughter despite such situational slip-ups, that I was setting myself up for a life of misery because, to her, queerness was the same as incomprehensibility, as failure, as stepping on a burning star with arms outstretched.
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Whether or not his campaign has actively presented him as a "wonder boy" — someone whose Rhodes Scholar smarts have been hailed in the media far more often than Cory Booker's, who is compared favorably to apparently shriller, angrier candidates like Warren and Sanders even as he attacks them in debates and ads — Buttigieg has clearly benefited from the cultural cachet afforded by his whiteness, maleness, and academic pedigree.
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Maleness as a construct is pretty pointlessMen are painful Being pregnant taught meWhat assholes men really are Making fun of my pumpingIn the bathroom or the office I want to live in a worldWhere she exists Man smoking in turquoise gym shortsI need to write more things down The song I can't fight this feeling is playing in the deliEverytime I think of you Movie star by the lakeWith the flamingos so calm, neon roses Dorothea Lasky is the author of Rome (Liveright, 2014).
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