#masculinity

#masculinity

Early this year, Mark Zuckerberg made headlines by saying corporate culture needs more "masculine energy." This sentiment was echoed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's call for the military-an employer of 2.1 million Americans-to return to a "warrior ethos", promoting traditional masculine standards like aggression and athleticism. And yet, according to recent news reports, recruits at ICE (another workplace) are struggling to pass basic fitness tests, and Hegseth allegedly installed a makeup room at the Pentagon.

It's about the platforms that facilitate it, and how social media diverts attention away from things like reading and toward things that largely don't matter. Josh says it himself: in fairness, short-form content is slightly more engaging than Macbeth quotation flashcards. That's truly worrying. It's true that the education system can and should do better, but I also think we need reminding that young people have always felt alienated from the education system.

Paul Kooiker, known for his provocative and surreal exploration of the human body, identity and voyeurism, captures the spirit of the Washington DC punk scene in his portrait series of author, musician and filmmaker Ian Svenonius, who wears Tatras. Kooiker's story for Another Man Volume II Issue IV, will be showcased at Dover Street Market Paris during Paris Photo, alongside other shoots from the edition by JH Engström, Thomas Mailaender and Chardchakaj Waikawee.

The one thing I really couldn't get purchase on from your essay is I never got a sense of whether there were female virtues at all from your piece. If you want to know what I like about women. No, that's not my question. You can ask me. In fact, I invite you to commission from me an entire essay on the subject. What I like about women. My freelance rates are very reasonable. What do you like about women, Helen?

What is it all for, these early mornings and evenings in the park with her notebook? The bruises and the pain? She wonders about it many times, but is quiet, self-conscious. She does not spend too much time trying to answer the question. And whatever answers she comes by are less interesting, anyway, than the quality of the light at dawn, and the crash of bodies, and what she's recording in the notebook.

How do you like your men? Yes, obviously, we shouldn't be dismissively taxonomising a whole gender like boxed Barbies. But in the era of tradwives and nu-gen gold diggers, in which the manosphere remains alive and kick(box)ing, telling teenage boys lies about women, I reckon there's a way to go before we reach reductive objectification parity. Does that make it OK? No. Am I going to do it anyway? Yes, a bit.

I read further and met Ennis and Jack, two sheep herders who eke out a kind of strangled, self-loathing love story on the wind-whipped slopes of a mountain in Wyoming in the 1960s. I then realized why The New Yorker had published it not so much the story, or the characters, or the setting, but the prose. My god, the prose. So spare, so austere, so unsentimental yet you could feel everything that was roiling just below its surface.

A filmmaker who wanted to make a politically contentious movie couldn't do much better than to set it in mid-2020, when the United States, under the covid-19 lockdown and approaching a Presidential election, was tearing itself apart over masking mandates and then over the fallout from the killing of George Floyd. This is precisely what Ari Aster's recent film "Eddington" does, wading with apparent boldness into a slew of issues that remain divisive even five years on.

Rising from my seat at the front table, a familiar acid burn crawls up my throat. It's that failure lump I've carried for the past 16 months. Today is somber. My late wife Jane's celebration of life. She died just over a month ago after a 15‑month battle with leukemia. More than 250 friends and family members fill the room, waiting for me to deliver her eulogy.

Discovering Olly Alexander was seismic for me because it was the first time I fancied a man who was openly gay in his presentation.

Berg states that Buckley knew he was great but struggled to accept it, adding that he was hard on himself because it had to be perfect.

Dr. Ronald Levant highlights that lonely young men engage with echo chambers for direction and express frustrations, with figures like Andrew Tate exploiting their discontent.

The grandfather is controlling and dominating; the grandmother doting and submissive. This is something that finally repulses Ivor, and that Orla also grapples with.

"The romance of hair is too prolific a subject to be lightly handled." The evolution of facial hair acceptance reflects cultural attitudes that have shifted dramatically over the centuries, showing how societal norms dictate personal expression. This historical context reveals the complexities surrounding the idea of beards and mustaches, which once carried significant stigma but later became symbols of status and masculinity.

This could be a displacement activity to process the nervous energy. Additionally, oxytocin is the love hormone released through physical contact. Sometimes people will do things like stroke their beard to self-comfort.

Elliot Page has been included in teaching materials at Streatham Wells Primary School to exemplify positive masculinity, challenging harmful gender stereotypes and encouraging kindness, empathy, and emotional literacy.

James Brolin expressed his pride in Justin Baldoni for his writing on masculinity, expressing that Baldoni’s work teaches boys to confront their fears and understand manhood.

No Wave, circa 2025, is multiple things: genre, sound, aesthetic, buzzword for when a musician lives in New York and makes loud music.

Stephen Graham portrays Eddie, a father struggling with his son's violent crime in the raw series Adolescence, showcasing vulnerability instead of machismo that characterizes his past roles.

"At this time of year, that means being out before the sun comes up, and being hypervigilant. And that was the first time I can remember that anyone tried to put me at ease."

Tom Selleck starred in the original Magnum P.I. from 1980-1988, portraying a private investigator solving crimes in his red Ferrari on Hawaiian islands.

That night, surrounded by seventh-grade boys, I learned to navigate my feelings in an environment where masculinity was displayed so brazenly, yet so innocently.

The collection launches with low-slung, light-rinse denim artfully distressed to achieve a perfect vintage vibe, channeling the height of celebrity culture with statement outerwear.

Crispin illustrates how masculinity has transformed from idealized figures like Cary Grant to aggressive, desperate characters, exemplified in Michael Douglas' 1980s films.

Mattana's character, Owen, a particularly slick operator, immediately suggests a cleverly bloodless semantic argument about the definition of feminism—frame it as white and middle-class..."We believe feminism has failed women from the perspective that we are actually more feminist than the feminists,' he announces with self-satisfaction.

Scott’s character, who pushes a men’s group narrative, feels overly prominent and suggests potential villainy in future episodes, as he insinuates himself into Jesse's life.

This bold version of Legend captures the essence of masculinity perfectly, balancing freshness with a rich, woody depth that commands attention, especially at night.