Sentence examples for masculinity is not from inspiring English sources

"Masculinity is not given to you.

("I've gotten old enough so that my masculinity is not in question").

Here, masculinity is not the stuff of work, but of relaxation.

In her book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), she showed that masculinity is not necessarily expressed through aggressiveness and that femininity is not necessarily expressed through passivity and acquiescence.

But it's important to note that this version of masculinity is not all about unrestrained savagery; football is also seen as encouraging hard work, sportsmanship, and discipline, other values seen to be under attack".

In her famous text of 1977, The Hidden Face of Eve, Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi suggested that Arab men – but not only Arab men – cannot abide an intelligent woman, because: "She knows very well that his masculinity is not real, not an essential truth".

"Masculinity isn't just for men," she said.

Universities could do something to help people understand that masculinity isn't a rigid thing.

But I'm quite sure that most men's sense of their own masculinity isn't so fragile that it can't survive a single movie in which a male protagonist is overshadowed and outperformed by a woman.

Black masculinity isn't just a topic for discussion among historians and other academics.

So we walk in the world differently because masculinity isn't as policed and people don't have this feeling that they want to control masculinity in the same way -- people want to control femininity and feminine folks.