Sentences with phrase «about masculinity»

Today's men have to reconcile old ideas about masculinity with new economic realities.

Ana Segovia, Mexican painter; whose work we brought specifically seeks to talk about masculinity from stereotypes and scenarios around it.

Questions about his masculinity will be asked.

Known for films about masculinity and violence such as Taxi Driver, Raging Bull and The Departed, Scorsese's protagonists in the past have been disturbed and / or criminal men, and as a director he has become associated with tales of gangsters and stories of NYC's underbelly.

Some of the tough - guy dialogue is stilted and flatly delivered and there are awkward directorial choices, but the punk minimalism is infused with a gritty lurid dread, and Cruising ultimately becomes a very quiet, muted art - house movie about masculinity and identity.

Oftentimes cultural messages about masculinity and femininity enter into the bedroom and give us performance anxiety about not living up to what we think is normal or expected of us.

And despite the axiom, they didn't build character in me, but left a gaping wound as I wondered about my masculinity.

And her diatribes against fellow Tories who were nervous at her radicalism often reverted to innuendo about their masculinity.

But when boys play them and identify with the male characters in the game, it can lead to agreement with some pretty disturbing beliefs about masculinity and how to treat women.»

We can't control the messages that society sends our sons about masculinity, but we can be mindful about the way we speak to them.

Black men are very attractive about masculinity and they are excellent in the bedroom.

With his follow - up, Creed, however, Coogler built on these techniques and, in the context of reviving the popular Rocky franchise, created a personal story about race in America, wrought with insecurities about masculinity, social status and familial legacy.

Power struggles and apologies play out over offerings of snacks or who goes first when crossing a river, and a man and woman deal with expectations about masculinity and protectiveness that they never knew they had, and thought they were above.

Starring Rutger Hauer in the title role whose alluring villainy would give his turn as Blade Runner's Ray Batty a run for its money, The Hitcher — both the film and the character — is simultaneously of its time and of the now, a film about the real and the mythic, and a film that challenges our assumptions about masculinity and femininity.

Don Jon star Joseph Gordon - Levitt talks to Henry Barnes about masculinity, the pressure to live up to societal norms and the meaning of true love

Filming for more than a decade, Palmer uncovers something insightful about the Traveler culture, and perhaps about masculinity or warmongering at its most basic.

Questions of alienation, trust, and the societal presumptions and demands about masculinity combine in a provocative tale of the more subtle definitions of reality, as well as what to do with a friend in need who may end up killing you.

«Dream Daddy,» a game about men awkwardly getting to know one another, uses humor to tell real stories about masculinity and parenting.

This was before gender studies, queer theory, masculinity studies; people couldn't see what I saw about masculinity.

Among the works included are Sam Contis's lush black - and - white pictures about masculinity, Aïda Muluneh's portraits of imaginary characters with fractured selves, and Sofia Borges's photographs of taxidermy animals and archival materials.

In Kent Monkman's first New York solo show, which closes this weekend at Sargent's Daughters, art history commingles with cultural mythology in a passion play about masculinity and belonging.

Chad States turned to Craig's List and other online forums to find subjects for his series about masculinity.

In bringing the legend to life, Hlobo, a gay artist, reimagined it as a deeply personal tale, one that both honors and challenges African traditions and taboos — in this case, ideas about masculinity on the continent.

In 2011, Cernovich started Danger & Play, writing about masculinity and modern culture.

«Each man is a bridge, spanning in his lifetime all of the images and traditions about masculinity i

Tom's anti-dominating attitude about masculinity made it easy for him to let Carol be strong without feeling emasculated and Carol's sensitivity to being dominated made it easy for her to appreciate Tom's lack of masculine domination.

The difference here, as the feminist philosopher Sandra Bartky puts it, is the difference between healthy eroticism and rituals rooted in toxic ideas about masculinity.

Responding to questions about his masculinity and a common myth that men from his culture are not well - endowed, he continuously makes the kind of erratic baby gestures expected of new - borns, drooling and demonstrating the discomfort that comes with a wet diaper.

It doesn't help that Ms. Janney's character is the least developed in the movie; though her back story is briefly sketched in, she serves mainly as a plot device in what is ultimately a film about masculinity and its discontents.

Above all, it is a movie about masculinity and men.

But even with displaced ideas about masculinity, «toughness» and competition, football has a core issue that all Christians who support the game must reckon with: It is, at its very core, a game of violence.

«How often are adolescent boys given the opportunity to talk with one another about masculinity norms and their challenges, including norms embracing violence or the effects of emasculating bullying?

But at heart, it is a love story — a tale about betrayal, both accidental and deliberate, about masculinity, failure and the ambiguities of forgiveness.

This would be admirable were the Ulwaluko initiations not so severe, involving amateur circumcision and some pretty retrograde ideas about masculinity.

Wading through the scum - stench'd mud of mythology — most saliently the encroachment of Christianity on every older world religion — and practically ineffable ideas about masculinity or building civilization over the detritus of human corruption, whatever it's about in the end, Refn's lyrical oddity is an endlessly fascinating, completely visceral experience.

These stories do profoundly shape human ideas about masculinity, but rest assured, your dog is immune from such pressures.

''... our ideas about certain moments change over time: our ideas about the Civil Rights Movement, about masculinity, about the role of art.»

Victims and accused could only hope to harness entrenched ideas about masculinity, femininity, race, and class in their favour.

Inner conflict between wanting to be involved and cultural ideas about masculinity and men's roles